Butterfly spring, the spring water is as clear as a mirror. Every year at the Butterfly Festival, thousands of butterflies come from all directions and fly around the spring. Butterflies are as big as a palm and as small as copper coins. (Image from IC photo)
Countless butterflies also hook their feet and whiskers, head and tail, and hang in strings from the acacia tree to the surface. Colorful and spectacular. (Image from IC photo)
Butterfly Spring, one of the famous tourist attractions, has beautiful scenery, clear spring water, and unique rare wonders (butterfly clubs). (Image from IC photo)
With the spread of the film "Five Golden Flowers" that reflects the life of the Bai people, the strange landscape of Butterfly Spring is even more famous, well-known at home and abroad, the more famous ones are Dali Butterfly Spring, Zaozhuang Butterfly Spring, Yangshuo Butterfly Spring and so on. (Image from IC photo)
Butterfly Spring, located at Dali point Cangshan Yunnong Peak. It is like a transparent gemstone, set in the shade of greenery, with its unique spectacle, attracting tourists from near and far. (Image from IC photo)
From Shimonoseki, drive north along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway for more than 30 kilometers, and on the left side of the car there is an antique stone arch that comes into view. The three characters "Butterfly Spring" written on the archway are the ink stains left by Guo Moruo when he traveled to Dali. (Image from IC photo)
From the archway to the butterfly spring, about 100 meters, the spring pond is 2 or 3 meters square, and the surrounding area is made of transparent marble to form an expansion column. The spring water is crystal clear, and a string of silver blisters slowly gushes out of the sand and stones, gushing out of the water and splashing. This spring water has the power of changing the snow in the mountains, not only the amount of water is stable, but also the water quality is very good. (Image from IC photo)
Since ancient times, many literati have visited this place and written many important poems. Xu Xiake, a famous geographer in the Ming Dynasty, once enthusiastically praised butterfly spring in his travelogue (image from IC photo)
He wrote: "The big tree on the spring, at the beginning of April, will bloom like a butterfly, and its whiskers and wings will be vivid, no different from the raw butterfly." There are also thousands of real butterflies, with hooked feet, hanging upside down from the top of the tree, and on the surface of the spring, colorful and colorful. Tourists look at it from this moon group, and may be over. (Image from IC photo)
The Qing Dynasty poet Sha Chen praised in the poem "Shangguan Butterfly Spring": "Confused butterfly tree thousand butterflies, the tail is like a wisp of green water." Less than butterfly spring who is willing to believe, the shadow banner covers the solemnity of the butterfly. (Image from IC photo)
Every year from April to May of the lunar calendar, a variety of exotic flowers and plants bloom on Yunnong Peak Mountain, and the acacia trees by the spring emit a light fragrance, attracting thousands of butterflies to come to the party. (Image from IC photo)
These butterflies are as large as palms and as small as bees, and they either dance among the colorful camellias, azaleas and other flowers and plants, or play on the heads of tourists with flowers and branches. (Image from IC photo)
There are also countless colorful butterflies, from the acacia tree, one by one hanging upside down, with hooked feet, knotted into long strings, all the way to the surface of the water, under the sun, colorful, spectacular. (Image from IC photo)
Especially on the fifteenth day of April in the old calendar, if the weather is sunny, it is unprecedented, not only the butterflies are amazing, but also a wide variety, such as anchovies, large tile gray butterflies, etc., everything is available, converging into the world of butterflies. (Image from IC photo)
Butterfly Spring is located at the foot of Shenmo Mountain, the first peak of Cangshan Mountain, 27 kilometers south of Dali Ancient City. Butterfly Spring covers an area of more than 50 square meters and is a square spring pool. (Image from IC photo)
The spring water is as clear as a mirror, there is a spring bottom, the spring side is shaded like a cover, a tall ancient tree, lying on the spring, this is the "butterfly tree". (Image from IC photo)
Every year at the turn of spring and summer, especially on April 15, the fragrance of the butterfly tree attracts butterflies. A large number of butterflies gather at the edge of the spring and fly all over the sky. (Image from IC photo)