Yungu Scenic Area, located in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, with an altitude of only 890 meters, was originally named Yishan Mountain, which was renamed Huangshan during the Tang Dynasty, taken from the meaning of "Yellow Emperor's Mountain". Huangshan is a world natural and cultural double heritage, a global geopark, one of the top ten scenic spots in China, and a national 5A level tourist scenic spot.
Huangshan Scenic Area covers an area of 160.6 square kilometers, from the Yellow Lion in the east to the foot of Xiaoling in the west, to the north of Erlong Bridge, and to Tangkou Town in the south, which is divided into nine management areas: Hot Spring, Yungu, Yuping, Beihai, Songgu, Diaoqiao, Fuxi, Yanghu and Fugu, including more than 200 large and small scenic spots.
Huangshan is famous for the "five musts" of strange pines, strange stones, sea of clouds, hot springs and winter snow, and is known as "the first strange mountain in the world". "Ten thousand stones are exquisite, stacked on the mountains. The clouds are endless, and the sound of springs is unrestrained day by day" is the best evaluation of Huangshan. Cheng Yuanfeng, the Song Dynasty minister, once studied here, so his name was Cheng Xiangyuan. The Ming Dynasty scribe Fu Yan roamed here, at the request of the Zen monks, handwritten the word "Yungu", after which the Zen Temple was renamed "Yungu Temple", and over time, Yungu Temple became today's place name. The main attractions of Cloud Valley are Cloud Valley Villa, ancient trees, strange rocks, "Nine Dragon Waterfall" and "Baizhang Spring".
Huangshan weather;
Huangshan mountain is located in the subtropical monsoon climate zone, located in the northern edge of the central subtropical, evergreen broad-leaved forest, red soil and yellow soil zone. Due to the high mountains and deep valleys, the climate changes vertically. At the same time, due to the large radiation difference between the north slope and the south slope by the sun, the local terrain plays a leading role in its climate, forming a climate characteristic of more clouds, humidity and precipitation, close to the oceanic climate, no hot summer in summer, less severe cold in winter, and the average temperature difference in the four seasons is only about 20 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature in summer is 27 °C, the minimum temperature in winter is -22 °C, the average annual temperature is 7.8 °C, the average temperature in summer is 25 °C, and the average temperature in winter is above 0 °C. The average annual rainfall days are 183 days, mostly concentrated in April and June, and the annual precipitation on the mountain is 2395mm. The southwest and northwest winds are more frequent, with an average of 49 snow days per year
【Huangshan Four Gems】
1. Strange stones
The strange stone of one of the "four absolutes" of Huangshan Mountain is known for its strange victory and many. There are more than 120 named rocks. Its form can be described as bizarre and amazing. Like people and things, like birds and beasts, with different moods and realistic images. Huanghuangshan Strange Rock Mountain Strange Rock from different locations, in different weather to see the taste is very different, can be described as "horizontal view into the ridge side into a peak, far and near the height of different." Its distribution can be described as all over the peak slopes of peaks and ravines, or the summits of Wuli peaks or the edges of the slopes, or with pines, forming a natural mountain stone picture.
Huangshan Mountain is full of rocks, almost every mountain has many magical and ingenious strange stones, and its formation period is about 1 million years ago in the Quaternary glacial period, and the "strange" Huangshan stone is strange from different angles, which have different shapes. Standing in front of the Mid-Levels Temple, a large stone on Tiandu Peak, shaped like a big rooster spreading its wings and crying, so it was called "Golden Rooster Called Heavenly Gate", but when it climbed the Longpan Slope to look back, this rooster that sang the world white seemed to change into five old people with fluttering robes and shoulders, and was renamed "Five Elders of Heaven". Huangshan Peak Sea, everywhere is stone, no stone is not loose, no pine is not strange. Strange pine stones, often contrasted with each other, located in the North Sea of the dream pen raw flowers, as well as "magpie Dengmei" (immortal guidance), old monks to collect medicine, Su Wu shepherd, flying stone, etc., it is said that huangshan has a number of famous stones up to more than 1200 pieces, most of them are three points of image, seven points of imagination, from the human psychology to empathize with the stone, so that a stubborn stone out of thin air has the life of the spirit jumping out. When appreciating, you may wish to fully mobilize your subjective creativity and get a higher aesthetic enjoyment.
2. Hot Spring (Taoyuan Wonderland)
One of the "four musts" of Huangshan Mountain, the hot spring (ancient name Tangquan), originates from the Ziyun Peak at an altitude of 850 meters, and the water quality is mainly containing heavy carbonic acid, which can be drunk and bathed. Legend has it that Emperor Xuanyuan bathed here for 7749 days to return to old age and return to his childhood, feathering and soaring, so it was also known as "Lingquan".
3. Qisong
Huangshan Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, thousands of peaks and valleys, and Bibi is pine. Huangshan pine, which is distributed in high mountains above 800 meters above sea level, takes stone as its mother and tenaciously takes root in the fractures of giant rocks. Huangshan pine needles are thick and short, green and dense, dry and curved branches, and thousands of Huangshan welcome guests with a variety of pines. Or leaning on the shore straight, or independent peaks, or hanging upside down, or the crown is flat as a cover, or sharp as a sword. Some follow the cliffs and go around the stones; some wear the cracks in the caves and break through the stones. Hanging, horizontal, lying down, suddenly rising, "no tree is not pine, no stone is not pine, no pine is not strange".
Huangshan pine is a variant of Chinese pine tree formed by the unique landform and climate of Huangshan. Huangshan pine generally grows at altitudes above 800 meters, usually at 1500-1700 meters on the northern slope of Huangshan Mountain and 1000-1600 meters on the southern slope. The variety of Huangshan pines has a lot to do with the natural environment of Huangshan Mountain. The seeds of Huangshan pine can be sent by the wind to the cracks of the granite, where they sprout, root and grow with indestructible and crack-in drilling strength. Huangshan soil is scarce, but the fleshy red feldspar in the granite contains potassium, and the nitrogen in the air after the summer thunderstorm becomes nitrogen salt, which can be absorbed by the rock layer and soil, and then absorbed by the root system of the pine tree; the root system of the pine tree constantly secretes an organic acid, which can slowly dissolve the rock, and decompose the mineral salts in the rock for its own use; after the flowers, plants, leaves and other plants rot, they are also decomposed into fertilizer; so that the Huangshan pine survives and grows in the barren rock crevices. The terrain is rugged and uneven, with cliffs stacked vertically and horizontally, and Huangshan pine cannot grow vertically, but can only grow curved or even downward. Due to the resistance to storms and frost, the conifers of Huangshan pine are short and thick, the crown is flat as a cut, the color is deep green, and the trunk and branches are also extremely tough and elastic. Another feature of Huangshan pine is that many pine trees only grow branches on one side due to wind and sun. Huangshan pine posture is tough and proud, beautiful and peculiar, but the growth environment is very difficult, so the growth rate is unusually slow, a tall Huangshan pine, often hundreds of years old, or even hundreds of years; the roots are often several times longer than the trunk, dozens of times, because the roots are very deep, Huangshan pine can stand strong on the rocks, although the wind and frost but still maintain youth.
The most famous Huangshan pines are: Welcome Pine, Sending Pine, Futon Pine (located near Yuping Ropeway), Black Tiger Pine (located between Beihai Hotel and Shixin Peak), Tanhai Pine (located in the steep waist of Woyun Peak), Wolong Pine (located in Woyun Peak), Tuanjie Pine (Lianli Pine is located on the way to Shixin Peak), Dragon Claw Pine (located in Shixin Peak), Harp Pine (located on the north slope of Woyun Peak), Peike Pine (located in Yuping Scenic Area)