When the collision of the earth's plates hundreds of millions of years ago, the peaks and mountains in Southwest China were stirred up, and the prehistoric power of nature forged two steps of the land of China here. The proud son of the mountain in "Hengduan Qimai" - Gaoligong Mountain was conceived and born.
The charm of Gaoligong Mountain, which has many reputations, is difficult to describe in words. This great mountain range in Southwest China contains the infinite vitality of nature.
Bald fir forest in Tiantai Mountain: the world's largest artificial bald fir forest per unit volume
Bald fir, also known as Tushan, Dianshan, Xiangshan, is one of the only two species of Taiwan fir in the family Taxaceae (the other is Taiwan fir). It is a coniferous evergreen tree with a height of up to 70 meters, a diameter at breast height of more than 2.5 meters, and a tower-shaped crown.
Bald fir is a relict plant in the Tertiary ancient tropical flora area, which is a national first-class protected plant and is known as the "living fossil" in the forest. Distributed in Tengchong and Longling in southwestern Yunnan, Gongshan and Fugong in the Nujiang River Basin in western Yunnan, and Lanping and Yunlong in the Lancang River Basin.
Bald fir is currently endangered.
On the mountainside of Tiantai Mountain in Tengchong, Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve, there is a world-famous man-made bald fir forest with 10,000 mu of standing trees, which ranks first in the world in reserves. "The longest tree in the world, the largest area, and the highest stock of living trees per unit area" are the world's top three.
The bald fir forests here are very old, ranging from middle-aged forests (over 25 years old) to over-mature forests (over 80 years old). The unit storage volume is large, with a total of 768 plants and a storage volume of 6,000 cubic meters.
The vast forest sea has witnessed the miracle of artificial afforestation
The planting of this bald fir forest in Tengchong can be said from the last century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Taoist Gao Shan and his master Gao Yun began to plant bald cedars at an altitude of 2,200 meters in front of Tiantai Mountain Taoist Temple. They determined to make Tiantai Mountain a famous mountain surrounded by bald cedars.
After establishing a grand plan and making up our minds, we made full preparations from seed selection, seedling cultivation to the implementation of the planting area, so an unprecedented afforestation wonder began to be implemented.
Since 1933, Taoists Gao Shan and Gao Yun have personally cleared weeds and dug deep pits and ponds on the slopes around the halfway of Tiantai Mountain and the base of Gufeng. After a long period of hard work, they finally planted the first batch of There are more than 3,000 bald fir trees, and after careful management and protection, more than 2,000 trees survived, with a survival rate of about 67%.
Then, under the leadership of Taoist Gao Shan and him, after several generations of hard work, they planted and expanded this bald fir forest one after another. Year after year, every endangered plant in the world keeps alive here. After the passage of time, the world has changed, and it has formed its current scale.
Protect this treasured bald fir forest
The bald fir forest makes Gaoligong Mountain greener and the water greener.
Wild bald fir was listed as a national first-class protected plant in 1983 and is extremely precious. After Gaoligong Mountain was upgraded to a national nature reserve, the Tiantai Mountain artificial pine forest in the reserve has attracted more attention from the world, and it occupies an important position among the national pine germplasm resources.
The guardian of this bald fir forest is the sand dam forest protection point of the Tengchong Sub-bureau of the Baoshan Management and Protection Bureau of the Gaoligong Mountain Reserve. With a series of work, the ecological environment here is improving day by day, effectively protecting the wild animal and plant resources here.
Gaoligong Mountain is the channel for north-south exchange of animals and plants and the link of east-west transition. It is also the first barrier of ecological security in southwest my country and a treasure house of biodiversity. Under Tiantai Mountain, there is a vast forest. In the beautiful natural scenery of Gaoligong Mountain, this piece of bald fir forest exudes a unique light. It has witnessed the miracle of artificial afforestation, and also demonstrated the concept of ecological civilization of "co-building a community of life on earth".