Waterfalls are geologically called falling water, that is, the phenomenon of river water falling vertically from high in the sky when flowing through faults, depressions and other areas, which is the most beautiful dynamic landscape in nature. What are the famous waterfalls in China? Today we will take stock of the top ten most beautiful waterfall landscapes in China, each waterfall has its own beauty, spectacular and with absolute surprise, let's take a look at it.
1. Jiuzhaigou Waterfall
Since ancient times, I don't know how many tourists have been fascinated by The Bashan Shushui, Jiuzhaigou is composed of three main ditches of Shuzhengqun Trench, Zechawa Ditch and Rize Ditch, located in the congshan mountains of Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It is named after the fact that there are 9 Tibetan villages and villages concentrated here. Jiuzhaigou is known as a multicolored scenery gem, a fabulous world. Numerous haizi and waterfalls are the most attractive and beautiful landscapes in Jiuzhaigou scenery. Jiuzhaigou Waterfall Group is mainly composed of Norilang Waterfall, Shuzheng Waterfall and Pearl Beach Waterfall, as well as the Ladder Waterfall Group between the Wakashiki Group and the Sea.
The waterfalls flow quietly from the cliffs or beaches, divided into countless small streams, or light and slow, or rapids, and the scenery is endless. Surrounded by green mountains, the waterfall scenery is even more magical and beautiful. The most spectacular of Jiuzhaigou is the Norilang Waterfall, which is 270 meters wide and 25 meters high, making it one of the largest calcified waterfalls in China and the widest waterfall in China. Even if you haven't been to Norilang Waterfall, you must have seen it, because the 1986 version of the TV series "Journey to the West" was filmed here at the end of the film.
2. Huangguoshu Waterfall
Huangguoshu Waterfall, located in Anshun City, Guizhou Province, is an important business card of Guizhou Province, with the reputation of the largest waterfall in China, and many words of praise cannot describe the magnificence of its pouring down. With Huangguoshu Waterfall as the center, there are more than a dozen waterfalls distributed around it, and the peaks around the waterfall are stacked, the vegetation is dense, and canyons, caves, and stone pillars abound, which is a typical karst landform. The height of the waterfall is 77.8 meters, the width is 101 meters, and the rushing river water from the cliff cliff, flowing straight into the rhino pond, emitting a huge earth-shaking sound, such as a thousand people beating drums, ten thousand horses galloping, the sound like thunder, far away from the earthquake for miles, thrilling.
There are six observation decks around the waterfall, which can enjoy the magnificent view of the waterfall from all angles, and the water curtain cave behind the waterfall can feel the majesty up close in the cave. The air in the scenic area is fresh, and the air contains more than 28,000 negative oxygen ions per cubic centimeter, which is known as a natural oxygen bar. Huangguoshu Waterfall has been admired by the literati and inkers of the past generations, and the Huangguoshu Scenic Area has been rated as the largest waterfall group in the world and listed in the Guinness World Record.
3. Daxin Detian Waterfall
Detian Waterfall is located in Daxin County, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, the mighty Guichun River, rushing from the north, quietly flowing to Vietnam, and then circling back to Guangxi, and finally in the border town of Shuolong, after a long silence, the power exploded instantly, falling from the cliff of more than 50 meters high, the water mist mist, breaking through thousands of rocks, rushing out of the blockade of high cliffs and green trees, a thousand miles, crossing the border between China and Vietnam. The waterfall is majestic and spectacular, connected to the adjacent Panyue Waterfall in Vietnam, and is the first in Asia and the fourth largest transnational waterfall in the world, with an average annual water flow of three times that of Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou.
Looking at the sky like silk in the distance, looking at it like flying beads splashing jade, through the refraction of the sun, colorful, oscillating river valley, the momentum is very majestic. Detian Waterfall integrates the landscape of transnational waterfalls, colorful border folk customs, and a long and magical border customs history and culture, forming a karst characteristic landscape of the southern frontier with beautiful mountains and rivers and strong waterfalls, and is also the location shooting location of "Wine is Hometown Alcohol" and "Flowers and Bones".
4. Lushan Sandian Spring
Lushan Sandian Spring Waterfall, known as Kuanglu Waterfall in ancient times, is known as the first wonder of Lushan Mountain, and is a must-visit place for tourists who climb Lushan Mountain in ancient and modern times. The Sandian Spring Scenic Area has high peaks and deep canyons. During the Himalayan orogeny, due to the multiple settlements and uplifts of the earth's crust, a folded, fault-strewn mountain was formed, and then the ice cliff surface formed by the Quaternary glacier was formed. Lushan Sandian Spring is located in the Grand Canyon east of Wulao Peak in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi, and the Sandian Spring water system originates from Wulao Peak, Dayue Mountain and other places. The stream flows out from the cliff mouth of Wulao Peak and falls down in three levels, so it is called Three Stack Springs, also known as three-level springs and water curtain springs.
The total drop of Sandian Spring Waterfall is 155 meters, a stack of straight hanging, the water from the back of more than 20 meters of dustpan poured down, the second stack of bends like a bow, the three stacks are the most spectacular, 50 meters high straight into the pool, known as the world's most magnificent and beautiful karst waterfall. Standing on the rock under the spring, looking up, but seeing the three stacks of springs throwing beads and splashing jade, it is like a thousand pieces of egrets flying up and down, and like a hundred pieces of ice trembling in the sky, the Pearl of Wan Hu is flying for nine days. Refracted by the sunlight, the colors are magnificent and dazzling, just like the Milky Way flying from the Ninth Heaven.
5. Yellow River Hukou Waterfall
Known as the Wonders of the Yellow River, the Yellow River Hukou Waterfall is the only yellow waterfall on the Yellow River and the second largest waterfall in China. It integrates the Yellow River Gorge, the Loess Plateau and the ancient villages, showing the magnificent natural landscape and rich historical and cultural accumulation of the Yellow River Basin. The middle section of the Jinshan Grand Canyon is sandwiched between the mountains on both sides, and the gushing Yellow River is held hostage by the Cangshan Mountains on both sides of the river, bound in a narrow stone valley, and the torrent of more than 300 meters wide is suddenly bound to more than 50 meters, when the river rushes and roars, the mountain sounds and the valley should be shaped like a giant pot boiling, and finally from the 20-meter-high fault stone cliff, it falls straight down and falls into the stone trough more than 30 meters wide.
Listen to it like a thousand horses galloping, like a dragon drum wave, a roaring wave, a tremor for miles, shaped like a giant pot boiling, so it is called Hukou Waterfall. In the summer when the amount of water is large, the Hukou Waterfall is magnificent, the autumn leaves are sandwiched between the banks, the waterfall is more than 30 meters high, the water curtain is hung into the clouds, and in the winter, the entire water surface is frozen, which will produce a rare huge ice waterfall and ice hanging landscape. This is the wonder of the dangerous rock hanging on the ice peak at the mouth of the pot, and there is a beauty of solidification. Take the beauty of freezing to the extreme.
6. Three Gorges Waterfall
Three Gorges Waterfall, formerly known as Baiguoshu Waterfall, is located in Yiling District, Yichang City, 29 kilometers away from the central urban area of Yichang. The scenic spot is a national 5A-level scenic spot, a natural geological museum that displays multiple geological ages such as the Aurora, Ordovician, Cambrian and other geological ages, and is also a national geopark integrating canyon caves and landscape fossils. The Great Waterfall Stream is 5 kilometers long, and there are more than 30 waterfalls along the way, and waterfalls of different shapes follow along the way. The main waterfall of the scenic spot is about tens of meters wide, and the clear spring flows down from the steep cliff more than 100 meters high, and the water and fog sea are one after another, which is spectacular.
Even if there is no rain for a long time, it is still a flying spring, and it is known as the fourth Hubei in China. Tourists praised: towards the white fruit tree, a mountain day and a mountain fog, a noon tour of white fruit trees, a cool body, a twilight tour of white fruit trees, a piece of sunset and a dew. Approaching the Three Gorges Waterfall is like unfolding a beautiful landscape painting, which is completely far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and walking through the woods, you can breathe in the air rich in negative oxygen ions, as if you are outside the world, forgetting all your troubles.
7. Chishui Waterfall
Chishui Waterfall, also known as Shizhangdong Waterfall, is located in the south of Chishui City, Guizhou Province, upstream of the Fengxi River, a tributary of the Chishui River, more than 30 kilometers away from Chishui City. Chishui Waterfall is located in the Danxia landform area, and the waterfall hangs on the red Danxia cliff and is one of the core components of the Chishui Danxia World Natural Heritage. The waterfall is 76 meters high and 80 meters wide, which is the largest waterfall on the Danxia landform of the mainland and the largest waterfall in the Yangtze River basin of the mainland, and is known as the wonder of Danxia Waterfall in Shenzhou.
On the trail to Chishui Waterfall, you can enjoy the Danxia landform all the way, breathe fresh air, and walk to the end is Chishui Waterfall. The waterfall water pours down from the cliff cliff, the splash of water is crystal clear, like a thousand horses galloping, majestic, the waterfall sound is deafening, the water mist within hundreds of meters is filled, under the sunlight, it presents a colorful rainbow, and occasionally you can see the wonderful Buddha aura, moving with the people, beautiful. The waterfall is surrounded by lush trees and lush greenery all year round, and you can climb the boulders in the pool to experience the waterfall up close.
7. Luoping Kowloon Waterfall
Jiulong Waterfall Group is located in Changdi Township, Luoping County, Qujing City, because of the origin of the Jiulong River and named, the scenic spot because of its many waterfalls, dense attractions and the formation of its unique ornamental characteristics, all year round beautiful scenery, known as the Nine Dragons and Ten Waterfalls, the reputation of the southern country. Due to the special geological structure and the thousand-year erosion of water flow, the scenic spot has formed a group of waterfalls with ten levels of height, width and narrowness, and different forms, or majestic, or steep, or beautiful, or soothing, beautiful, beautiful, and the deep shoal between the waterfalls is diverse. The river rushes from the mountains behind Mount Baila, feeding the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups on the land of Luoping.
Between the nine dragons and ten waterfalls, it is connected by shoals or deep pools, forming a string of pearl ribbons that reflect the brilliance of the sun. These waterfalls change with the changing seasons, and the roar of the great waterfalls can be heard for miles during the flood season. The scale, momentum and landscape of the Kowloon Waterfall are comparable to those of the Huangguo Trees, and the density of the attractions is far superior to the Huangguo Trees. On the 4-kilometer-long river channel, there are dozens of calcified beaches and more than ten waterfalls of various sizes, with strange shapes and intact vegetation, which are also rare in China.
9. Hanging Water Tower Waterfall
Hanging Water Tower Waterfall, also known as Jingpo Lake Waterfall, is located in the southwest of Ning'an County, Heilongjiang Province, at the northern end of Jingpo Lake, only three kilometers away from Jingpo Mountain Villa. The width of the waterfall is about 70 meters, and when the amount of rain is large, the width is more than 300 meters, and the drop is 20 meters. The cliffs on both sides of the waterfall are majestic and steep, and the waterhole below is 60 meters deep called Black Dragon Pond, standing on the edge of the cliff and looking at the deep pool like the abyss. During the rainy season or flood season, the sound of water is like thunder and rapids, the water and stones hit each other, and the water mist steams up a colorful rainbow. Shaped like Niagara Falls, it is the largest basalt waterfall in the world.
On a sunny day, a rainbow appears as it shines on the waterfall, and visitors to the waterfall marvel at its magnificent scenery. In the cold winter, the Hanging Water Tower Waterfall condenses like a practice, forming an ice waterfall of more than 10 meters high, like an iceberg towering, like an ice river hanging on the ground, crystal clear above the high cliff wall, forming a magnificent and magnificent ice waterfall wonder. The silver-clad rime that spreads over the mountains is a rare picture of ice and snow painted by nature's magic brush, like a fairyland, beautiful.
10. Wanzhou Waterfall
Wanzhou Waterfalls is located in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, 30 kilometers away from the city. The scenic area is 60 square kilometers, the waterfall is 151 meters wide, 65 meters high, and the area is 9739 square meters. Wanzhou Waterfall is 19 meters wider than Huangguoshu Waterfall, and has attracted the attention of the world with its earth-shattering majestic momentum, the strange landscape of the stars and the moon, and the popular folklore.
The 1600 square meters of water curtain cave under the waterfall, tens of meters deep and flat, can be calmly entered, 360 degrees three-dimensional view of the waterfall, the vast water curtain waterfall rain flying, the waterfall fog is full of shade of the sky, the flow of brilliant mantle is dazzling, it is really rare in the world, can greatly enrich the imagination of the waterfall viewer. In the 7,000-square-meter Qinglong Cave, what is breathtaking is the natural and natural Qinglong Cave Tiangong Painting Wall, and the Sanskrit sound array in the cave is a unique cave blessed land. You can also take a boat near the waterfall to feel the intense feeling of splashing water up close, which is very visually impactful.
When you go out on a long trip, everyone likes to find a place with mountains and water, and if there is a waterfall between the mountains and rivers, it is the best. The above is the top ten most beautiful waterfalls in China that are counted today, which ones have you been to? Which one is the most beautiful waterfall in your heart? Do you also know what waterfalls are worth visiting on the mainland? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area and chat together.