★Tourist location: Xuantang of the Dragon Palace in Anshun, Guizhou

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at the Dragon Palace. Although we can still buy tickets to enter, it is said that we have to hurry to get on the boat. The place where we got off was three or four kilometers away from the hotel we were looking for. Although there was another entrance and exit there, it was actually closed recently. In other words, if we don't want to travel around the Dragon Palace with our luggage, we need to take a taxi to go through the check-in procedures, and then take a taxi back to the gate. After staying for a while, I have to take a taxi to go to the hotel, and I have to waste a lot of time on the road. The most important thing is that Dragon Palace sells same-day tickets, unlike Huangguoshu, Libo, and Maolan, which are valid for three or two days, which is very embarrassing.

"Anyway, I can't play today, so I can only play tomorrow." I was a little unhappy, "Or just find a hotel nearby or something and spend the night there. It's really inconvenient to stay in that hotel."

Although my friend didn't ask for a non-star hotel to live in, he was quite contemptuous of the service and conditions of the inn: "Anyway, I don't really want to go to Dragon Palace, why don't we just go to Zhijin directly."

In fact, we have already been to the Dragon Palace last time, but because the schedule was rather rushed, we didn’t enjoy ourselves so much. We calculated the itinerary silently, and could only think wistfully: “Maybe this time we will leave regrets again.” I checked the train tickets and found that there are many trains to Zhijin. If I rush to Zhijin now, I don’t have enough time to go to Zhijin Cave, which is a waste of time.

There are private car owners at the door selling business, saying that fifty yuan can take us to Xuantang, which is enough for us to play well in Xuantang and then return to Anshun to take a car to Zhijin. In fact, what we didn’t enjoy last time was the Xuantang. We were overjoyed and forgot to bargain, and got into the car with our friends. In fact, the price is a bit high, because the distance is not too far. However, because the trip to the Dragon Palace was not wasted, it was at least psychologically comforting, so the fifty yuan was given very willingly.

Xuantang is called the "Bermuda" of Guizhou. In fact, it is incomparable with Bermuda in terms of scale. It is a small lake in a valley depression. It is said to have a water surface area of ​​8,000 square meters. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that its lake water revolves around the center of the lake, and the name of Xuantang also comes from this characteristic. The rotation of these waters does not have any external force. Hydrogeological experts inspected the surrounding mountainous environment. It turns out that there is a mountain pass in the northeast of it. The wind blows in from this mountain pass. The movement of the air flow may drive the rotation of the water body. But when the experiment was done in the field, this assumption was overturned, because the experimental result was that the water was rotating counterclockwise, while the water in the whirlpool was rotating clockwise. Therefore, the rotation of the water flow in the whirlpool has become a mystery.

Perhaps people always have natural fear and worry about unknown things, so the villagers built a temple nearby, praying that the monsters in the water would not bring disaster to the village. Because they couldn't find the reason, people believed that it was because there were unknown water monsters hidden under the water, and if they stirred up trouble, it would bring disaster to the village. The incense in the temple is very strong, which is also a well-known scenic spot in the Dragon Palace Scenic Area. But what we are interested in is the Xuantang itself, a nearly circular lake, quiet and beautiful, surrounded by mountains, and the mountain dwellings are scattered in the depressions. The characteristics of karst landform are very obvious. Where there are mountains and water, the scenery is always very good. Compared with the magnificence and majesty of the Dragon Palace, the Xuantang makes people feel that the sky is high and the earth is far away.

There is also a strange thing about Xuantang. There is a river upstream of the pond. The water in the river flows into the pond every day to reach 250,000 cubic meters. There is no river flowing out of the downstream of the pond, but the water in the pond has never overflowed. . So where did the water go? Is there an entrance to the underground river at the bottom of the whirlpool? Perhaps it is precisely because of this doubt that the experts conducted a more in-depth investigation and finally found the reason why the water flow in the whirlpool rotates clockwise. It turns out that the bottom of the whirlpool is a large and deep funnel, and there is an underground river at the bottom connected to the downstream water system, which creates a suction force on the water body of the whirlpool. The thrust of the water injection and the suction of the downstream water system to the whirlpool eventually lead to The whirlpool has been spinning continuously for thousands of years. It seems that we still have to believe in the power of science.

Xuantang is known as the "three wonders" in China for "the wonder of the swirling water, the many short rivers, and the size of the Buddhist hall in the cave". Within the scope of three square kilometers of the scenic spot, three short rivers converge. The mountains are beautiful because of the water, the water is smart because of the beautiful mountains, and the mountains and rivers complement each other. The scenery here is still very attractive. As for the Guanyin Cave, this is also a karst cave, and the Buddha statues are also natural. This time we did not go in to worship.

There is also the largest plant Chinese character "dragon" in the world. In fact, it is planted by interplanting plants. Because of its huge scale, it is amazing. In fact, standing on the edge of the field is not very intuitive. Instead, we waited for the car and walked up for a while. We can see the panorama of the word "Dragon" by a bridge. In fact, from this point of view, the scenery of Xuantang is somewhat similar to the landscape of Guilin.

Because there is still a little time, we turned our heads and saw that there is a row of stone steps going up the unnamed hill next to the head. Today's physical strength has not been exhausted, so the two hit it off and said, "Climb the mountain!"

The relative height of the mountain is not high, but the steps do not lead to the top of the mountain. There may be some commercial crops on the mountain, which may be built by local residents for climbing. The stones and slabs are irregular. Standing in the middle of the mountain, although climbing high, the surrounding mountains are not low, so there is no feeling of seeing all the small mountains at a glance. The forest on the mountain is very dense. Although the sun is very fierce, it doesn't feel very hot.

Not long after going down the mountain, I waited for the minibus back to Anshun. In fact, there are mountains and rivers along the way. There is really no need to look for these well-known scenic spots for the scenery of Guizhou. You can find a hill at will and appreciate the beauty of mountains and rivers.