Guizhou has rich and colorful tourism resources, and Guizhou, which has the reputation of "China's Park Province", is well-deserved. On the morning of November 2, 2005, the reporter and the China Railway Travel Hunan-Yunnan-Guizhou special train tour group departed from Kunming and arrived in Anshun City, Guizhou Province after a one-night Mercedes-Benz.
After the reporter and his party left Anshun Railway Station, they took a tour bus to the famous Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area under the guidance of a tour guide. After the car started, Ms. Liao, the guide of the Guizhou Youth Travel Tour in charge of the group, gave a lively opening speech, which not only shortened the distance between tourists and Guizhou, but also made the reporter have an excellent impression of Guizhou.
Ms. Liao said: "Because the mountainous area of Guizhou Province accounts for as much as 87% of the whole province, many people used to think that Guizhou was a poor and backward place. In fact, it is not the case. Just look at the combination of the word "expensive". It is It is composed of three characters: Zhong, Yi and Bei. Therefore, it is no exaggeration that Guizhou Province is a treasure of China..."
As Ms. Liao said, Guizhou is actually a park province with outstanding individuals and beautiful mountains and rivers. She is a multi-ethnic province in the southwestern inland of China. With its unique landscape, rich ethnic customs, simple and colorful cultural relics and historic sites, and pleasant climate, it is now attracting more and more guests and friends from home and abroad.
Guizhou is located in the plateau mountainous area, with winding mountains and scattered peaks, which is a typical karst karst landform. Its rocks, caves, and water features are unique, and the natural scenery is varied and beautiful. Now, Guizhou has formed a west-line tourist area centered on Guiyang City, the provincial capital, to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall, Dragon Palace, Zhijin Cave, Hongfeng Lake, and Maling River Canyon; Mainly, the east-line tourist area accompanied by the scenery of Wuyang River; the north-line tourist area mainly focuses on admiring the revolutionary sites, visiting the beautiful Chishui Shizhang Cave Waterfall and tasting the culture of Moutai national wine, and the magnificent and colorful "Xiaoqi It is a tourist area on the south line dominated by the natural landscape of "Korea".
As the capital city of Guizhou, Guiyang is located in the east of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in southwest China and is the political, economic and cultural center of Guizhou Province. The total area of the city is 8,034 square kilometers, and the average altitude of the city center is 1,000 meters. "Guiyang" got its name because it is located in the south of Guishan Mountain, and it has been used for more than 400 years. In ancient times, Guiyang was rich in bamboo and was famous for making musical instruments, so it is called "zhu" for short.
Guiyang is a multi-ethnic city inhabited mainly by Han people. According to statistics at the end of the last century, the Han population accounted for 86.5% of the total population, and the minority population accounted for 13.5%. There are 37 ethnic minorities in Guiyang, among which Buyi and Miao are the main populations, which together account for 77.65% of the total minority population.
Guiyang has a subtropical humid and mild climate, with neither too much heat in summer nor severe cold in winter, with plenty of sunshine and rain. The air is not dry, there is no wind and sand in four seasons, and the annual average temperature is around 15.3°C. Among them, the hottest in late July, with an average temperature of 24°C; the coldest in early January, with an average temperature of 4.6°C. The pleasant climate has won Guiyang the reputation of "heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below, and the most pleasant climate is Guiyang".
The most representative landscape in Guiyang is Jiaxiu Tower. On November 2, 2005, the China Railway Travel Hunan-Yunnan-Guizhou special train tour group went to Guiyang after visiting the Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area, and visited Jiaxiu Tower, the only landscape in the Guiyang itinerary. Jiaxiu Tower is located on the Aoji of the Nanming River in the urban area of Guiyang. It was built in the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (159 A.D.) and is a symbol of Guiyang City.
Jiaxiu Tower is a wooden attic with three floors and three eaves, red lattice carved windows, twelve white stone pillars supporting the corners of the eaves, surrounded by white carved stone railings. The total height is 22.9 meters, and the title on the top floor is "Jiaxiu Tower" and "". It forms a group of magnificent scenery with Hanbitan, Fuyu Bridge, Fangdu Island, Cuiwei Pavilion, Guanyin Temple, Wuhou Temple and Haichao Temple The building complex was formerly known as the "Eight Views of the Small West Lake". If the Jiaxiu Tower as a cultural landscape is admirable for its ingenious architectural art style charm, then as a natural landscape, the Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou is even more impressive for its magnificence and magic. It is famous at home and abroad for its beautiful scenery.
Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area is located on the Baishui River and Baling River in the upper reaches of the Dabang River, a tributary of the Beipan River in Zhenning and Guanling counties, Guizhou Province. The scenic spot is centered on Huangguoshu Waterfall, with waterfalls, karst caves, and underground lakes as the main body. It is known as "the wonder of the world".
The area around Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area is a typical karst area. Long-term river channel changes, raids, subsidence of underground rivers, and downcutting of rivers have caused the riverbed to fall step by step, forming a variety of waterfalls. There are 18 surface waterfalls and 14 underground waterfalls in the scenic area, which can be said to be a huge waterfall group. Among these waterfalls, Huangguoshu Waterfall is the largest of the nine waterfalls on the Baishui River, the largest waterfall in my country, and the largest waterfall in Asia. Ranked third in the world.
In addition to Huangguoshu Waterfall, there are also strings of pearl-like waterfalls around it. There are innumerable famous waterfalls in the world, but such a concentrated group of waterfalls with different postures as Huangguoshu is unique to our country. According to the latest statistics: Huangguoshu Waterfall is now 77•8 meters high, 101.0 meters wide, and 903•9 meters above sea level. East longitude 105.40•0' north latitude 25.59.9'.
The river flows down from the top of the cliff and pours into the rhinoceros pool under the cliff, like an overturned river. The water and stones excited each other, making a loud noise, and a cloud of smoke rose up. Under the sunlight, the misty mist turned into rainbows again, creating a fantastic and wonderful scene.
There is a couplet on the waterfall viewing pavilion on the high cliff on the other side of the waterfall, which says: "White water is like cotton, no need for bows and flowers to scatter, and rainbows are like brocade, why do we need weaving?" This is a vivid portrayal of Huangguoshu Waterfall. However, the shape of Huangguoshu Waterfall changes with the seasons. In winter, when the water is low, it is charming and beautiful, and it cascades gently; Sometimes the snow foam and smoke from the waterfall are hundreds of meters high and float all over the sky, so that the surrounding area is often in the drizzle.
The Water Curtain Cave behind the waterfall is extremely wonderful. There are 6 cave windows, 5 cave halls, 3 cave springs and 1 cave waterfall in the 134-meter-long cave. Visitors walking through the cave can watch the waterfall flowing down outside the cave from the window of the cave; when the sun sets on the west mountain, looking out of the window, the rhinoceros pool is surrounded by rainbows, the clouds are steaming and the clouds are rosy, and the top of Cangshan Mountain is crimson, blurred and changing. "Watching the Sunset from the Water Curtain Cave". The Huangguoshu Waterfalls are like a karst waterfall museum. Throughout the world, the Huangguoshu Waterfalls, which are so concentrated and have different postures, are unique to Huangguoshu in my country.
After the tour of Huangguoshu Waterfall, the tour group went to Tianxing Bridge Scenic Area, which is six kilometers away. The scenery of Tianxing Bridge can be divided into stone scenery, water scenery, tree scenery and cave scenery, but in fact they cannot be separated, because they are integrated with each other, and this fusion is not only the fusion of shapes, but more importantly It is a fusion of spirituality. Tianxing Bridge is the most spiritual place. Mountains have spirituality, water has spirituality, trees have spirituality, and even stones have spirituality.
Roots and stones are incompatible with each other. The growth of roots always avoids stones, and stones always have a ruthless face or wave cold fists, warning the roots: don't come near me! Don't cling to me! But there is an unimaginable miracle here: the living root and the inanimate stone hug each other so warmly. The roots hang down from the top of the cliff. People who don't know it can hardly see that it is a root, but a series of suspended steel wire ropes.
Walking into the Tianxing Bridge Scenic Area, there is only a small stone road floating on the water. This so-called "number of life stone" is a road that records the calendar. From January 1st to December 31st, the entire route consists of 365 irregular stone slabs. The bronze plate above is clearly engraved with the date of each day. This scene has aroused great interest among tourists, and people take pictures on their birthday stone slabs one after another.
At the foot of the Tianxing Bridge cliff, there is a spring water flowing out of the cave, called Longjing, the water quality is pure, cool and refreshing. There is a big stone in front of the Dragon Well, on which grows a big banyan tree, whose roots are coiled around the stone, hugging the big stone tightly like a thousand-armed Buddha. The most unbelievable thing is that there is a root, which is so big that it can be embraced, stretching out four or five meters away; it is inserted into the stone crevice at the other end, and drags another boulder to build a "root bridge" over the rushing spring water. , people can walk or stay on the "bridge".
Tianxing Bridge, about 1 kilometer wide, spans over the dark river. There are many stalagmites with strange shapes, such as "crooked comb", "rocket", "pen holder", "eagle", "black bear" and "violent lion". The stones are overgrown with shrubs, mixed with green grass, vines and cactus. Some arbors and banyan trees growing on the stone pack, the roots are not penetrated into the soil or rock gaps, but are completely exposed outside, climbing all over the cliff, twisting and coiling, the thick ones are like "wall screens", and the dense ones are like "murals" .
The stone forest on the water is small in area, and it is composed of dozens of tall stalagmites to form a natural bonsai. The strange stones and trees are even more strange than the land stone forest. The reflection in the water is erratic and erratic, like a dream or illusion, if there is or if there is nothing. There are many caves near the stone forest, and the karst landscape is dazzling. Among them, the "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Heavenly Feast", "Grape Hall", "Tiger Skin Mountain" and the 25-meter-high Tianxing Pillar in Tianxing Cave are not only masterpieces of karst plastic arts, but also red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Blue and purple are available in all colors, making people dazzled.
Compared with the stone forest in Yunnan, the water stone forest of Tianxing Bridge is known for its "water". The river water drags the ground like a skirt, and crosses the juxtaposed and interlaced lotus leaf-shaped rocks at the edge of the pool, flowing freely, splashing water, forming thousands of silver chains. microwave.
The so-called "water flows on stones, stones grow on water, and trees grow on stones" is a true portrayal of the stone forest area on water. The waterfalls in Shilin District win with elegance, which is in contrast with the grandeur of Huangguoshu Waterfall. The most distinctive one is the waterfall of "Yinlianzhuitan". The river bed here is inclined, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Walking out along the stone path on the water, there is a wide lake in front of people. This is Tianxing Lake. After coming here, the tour of Tianxing Bridge Scenic Area is over.
Today, Tianxingqiao Stone Forest has been included in the unified management of Huangguoshu Scenic Area. In the stone forest area and Tianxing Cave, there are also built tourist access roads that pass through cliffs and caves, and are surrounded by mountains and rivers. They either meander and circle, or turn sharply down, or meet left and right, or run parallel up and down. Make the tour of Tianxing Bridge more fascinating.
The Guizhou line is the last stop of the China Railway Travel Hunan-Yunnan-Guizhou special train. With excitement and joy, the reporter and his party returned to Beijing on the morning of November 3 after staying in Guiyang for a night's rest. The 14-day trip to Hunan, Yunnan and Guizhou made everyone establish a good friendship with each other. They meet and have the opportunity to go to the next famous scenic spot in China for sightseeing by China Railway Travel Special Train. (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
