In the early eighties of the last century, the tourism of Jiangjin Simian Mountain began. The Danxia peaks in the mountains, the beautiful waterfalls and lakes in the mountains, the green forest vegetation in the mountains, and the birds and insects in the mountains have attracted many tourists to the Range Rover. When tourists come, they can't help but ask what attractions are there and how to get there. In the fledgling Shimianshan tourism, there was no special management service agency in the county, and the Forestry Bureau set up a tourism office, with only two or three staff, no information, no tour guides, and could not answer tourists' questions at all.
(Wangxiangtai Waterfall Rushing)
In the summer of 1983, the county decided to take the lead of the Construction Committee and cooperate with the Forestry Bureau to carry out a survey of tourism resources in Simianshan, take photos of the scenic spots of Simianshan, and prepare for the declaration of scenic spots in Sichuan Province. At that time, I was a director of the Jiangjin County Photography Association and was invited to participate in this event. He was accompanied by Liu Jing, chairman of the County Science and Technology Association and chairman of the Photography Association, Lao Huang and Xiaoqiu of the County Urban and Rural Construction Committee, and Yin Engineer of Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Gardens and Forestry. The five of us climbed mountains and waded together on all sides, looking for beautiful scenery together, and experienced difficulties together, and finally completed the shooting task.
(Wangxiangtai Waterfall under clear clouds)
Before departure, we listed the scenic spots to be photographed according to the clues provided by the Simianshan Breeding Farm. Among them, there are Toudaohe Lake District, Wangxiangtai Waterfall, Wash Horse Beach, Land Rock, Ferris Ridge, Feilong Temple, Chaoyuan Guan, Shuikou Temple Waterfall, Ten Miles of First Line Heaven, Big and Small Honghai, Sichuan-Qian Boundary Monument and so on.
(Toudao River in the greenery)
The Toudao River, also known as the Chaba River, originates from the Flying Pigeon Forest in Guizhou, flows through Dahonghai, Xiangshuitan, Wangxiangtai, Zhoujiawan and joins the Ferris Ridge stream to wash the horse beach and then flows outside the mountain. On the evening of May 23, 1926, the Ertaiping land on the east bank of the Toudao River collapsed, blocking the river channel with mud and rocks, forming a natural lake about 3 kilometers long and 50 to 100 meters wide.
(Mt. Hanagi on the banks of the Toumichi River)
According to legend, the Toudao River was once the land of the crouching tiger and hidden dragon, and the change of Bingyin flooded the Dragon King Temple in the valley, and the abbot guarded the golden Buddha into the bottom of the lake. Several daring villagers dived to retrieve the Golden Buddha, but only one escaped. The survivor said, going into the water, seeing the abbot meditating with his eyes closed, the Buddha statue shining with golden light, everyone was dazzled, and I was unconscious in an instant. Since then, no one has mentioned the matter of fishing for the underwater golden Buddha.
(Longtan Lake Morning Boat)
More than half a century has passed, and the lake area of Toudao River (Longtan Lake) is surrounded by greenery, birds and flowers, and the lake reflects green mountains, blue sky and clouds, like a beautiful picture that is difficult to depict even if it is full of human colors. We photographed along the lake Range Rover and also along the lake, photographing the head of a stone monkey suspected of drinking water near the lake, the light five-finger peak, the colorful forest entangled with vines, and the chain bridge swaying back and forth on the dammed lake embankment.
(Huaguoshan Forest)
Range Rover is on foot by Longtan Lake, and it is also walking distance to Wash Matan, Wangxiangtai Waterfall and Land Rock Waterfall.
(The forest road from the Toudao River to the Wash Matan is pierced)
At the confluence of the Chaba River and Ferris Ridge Creek, the road is surrounded by red rocks and babbling streams between the rocks. A stone path connects Zhangjia Mountain and goes down to Shuikou Temple, which was an ancient tea horse road from Jiangjin to Xishui in Guizhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Merchants who come and go to lead horses to the beach, they have to stop and rest, or wipe their sweat, or wash their horses, hence the name of the horse washing beach.
(Horse Wash Beachhead is now a reservoir)
There is a steep mountain at the head of the horse beach, several rock-like mushrooms, and two stone pillars attached to each other. While taking photos, discuss the name of the attraction. The mushroom stone is lifelike in shape and its name. The controversy over the name of the two stone pillars is great, the twin peaks, sister peaks, double candlesticks, etc., are all good, all touched on the edge, and always feel that there is still a lack of poetry. Everyone continued to meditate. Xiao Qiu said that the two stone pillars, one tall and one short, can not be imagined as a man and a woman. As soon as the train of thought opens, the good name comes out: Lovers Peak! Everyone agreed.
The dirt road leading to Wangxiangtai Waterfall was originally a passage for transporting timber, with less felling, too few vehicles, no wheels running through the middle of the road, and a line of verdant weeds. We walked the mountain road into the Wangxiangtai Valley. Wangxiangtai Waterfall has a vertical height of 152 meters, which was later known as the highest waterfall in China.
(Wangxiangtai Waterfall in a variety of forms)
Wangxiangtai Waterfall is very beautiful, very imposing, the most peculiar thing is that Danxia Chibi is shaped like a heart, and the white water curtain pierces under the heart. Looking at the beautiful scenery of Xiangtai Waterfall, you can get close to Chibi, look up at the silver curtain falling into the sky, and feel the impact of rain waves and the majestic comfort; You can get close to Qingtan and enjoy the wonderful fun of high waterfalls, double streams, and stirring heartstrings; You can also climb high to overlook, watch the silver waterfall falling into the sea of clouds, and savor the poetry of the canyon rain and smoke. Seeing such a beautiful scenery, everyone said that Wangxiangtai Waterfall is the crown of the beautiful scenery of the four mountains, and it will definitely become famous in the future.
(Flood Dam Rush)
Climb from Wangxiangtai Waterfall, pass the Xiangshuitan Suspension Bridge, and enter the Dahong Seaview Area. Dahong Hai is not a sea, it is a forest reservoir built in the early seventies of the last century to solve the difficulties of irrigation of farmland and drinking water for people and livestock in Laosimian Township. Who would have thought that a few years later, it would be cultivated into a blue lake surrounded by green mountains, and it would become a wonderful wonderland of the mountains and mountains of Range Rover.
(The sparkling flood sea)
Take a boat ride on the Range Rover Grand Flood Sea, the wild jungle accompanies you, sometimes wild frost cuts through the blue water to guide you, sometimes egrets skim over the boat to help you, and sometimes the breeze gently brings you the fragrance of mountain flowers.
(Dahonghai Red Army Bridge)
There is a wooden trestle bridge at the fork of the lake, and the boatman said that the name of the Red Army Bridge was a thought of the villagers of Honghai who risked to treat the wounded of the Red Army on the Long March. Above the Great Flood Sea there is also the Small Flood Sea, which connects the Hejiang River boundary. The Dahong Sea tail water area extends to the Guizhou Flying Pigeon Forest, and there is a Sichuan-Qian boundary monument at the junction.
〈Ancient tomb Yang family Jiacheng during the Qing Xianfeng period)
There is a beautifully carved ancient tomb of the Yang family during the Qingxian and Feng dynasties next to the road, and the pillars are linked: "Green mountains do not speak, flowers often laugh, green water and silent birds sing".
(Land Rock Danbi)
There is a stone paved road from Wash Matan to Land Rock Waterfall. Entering the valley, Danxia cliffs stand on both sides. Two upright rocks stick out from the left cliff, resembling ancient Roman warriors, one in front of the other, as if guarding the ancient road. A bluestone arch bridge crosses the ancient road, the bridge plate is a little skewed, and the clear stream flows under the bridge. At the end of the bridge, there is a stone platform with three piers enclosing the square seat, which is designed for pedestrians to rest. The rock wall on the right side of the ancient road is carved with the text of the villagers donating funds to build the road, and the bodhisattva of the land that blesses the safety of travel. Land Rock Waterfall is also named after this. Climb here, look up at the high land rock waterfall, the trickle of flow, fall into the deep valley, splash layer by layer of light light everywhere. The leaves were wet, the cliffs were moist, the stone paths were slippery, and we had to stop there.
(Land Rock Waterfall)
Returning to the breeding farm, I met Deputy County Chief Zhao, who was in charge of forestry work. When he knew that we did not have transportation, he walked to the scenic spot to take pictures, and was extremely uneasy, and immediately called the director of the breeding ground to discuss how to solve the problem of transportation needed for us to enter the mountain to shoot. At that time, there were very few vehicles in various units, even Deputy County Magistrate Zhao did not have a special car, and the Beijing 212 Jeep he traveled on also needed to be temporarily deployed by the county government office. There are no trolleys at the nursery, just a few trucks carrying timber and an ambulance with no seats in the back compartment. In that year, the working conditions of the breeding farm were poor, the production tools were backward, and there were frequent accidents in the process of cutting and transporting wood, and ambulances were specially equipped in case of emergency. After discussion, we used this ambulance to transport us to the shooting scenic spot in the morning and evening, reducing the walking time and physical exertion from the residence to the scenic spot, and focusing on shooting the beautiful scenery.
〈Kannon Bridge Creek)
The distance from the nursery to Ferris Ridge is less than 10 kilometers, all rough and winding roads, and it took half an hour for ambulances to drive up. In the seatless trunk, we grabbed the railing and bumped back and forth with the car, got out of the car, numb limbs, as if our bodies were about to fall apart. Climb Ferris Ridge and look back at the road, and I don't know how many turns the zigzag road has turned in the mountains. The driver said, "This forest road was built by migrant workers from various districts and townships in the county. ”
(Ferris Ridge Jungle)
At that time, migrant workers were not called migrant workers, but militias, did not open wages, built roads in the mountains, and returned to the production team to evaluate work points. The militiamen did the hardest and most tiring work at the construction site, eating coarse grains mainly of red moss, potatoes, and bud grain, but they had no regrets. Undaunted by hardships and dangers, the militiamen braved the cold winter and the scorching heat to fight in the deep mountains and mountains, and they carved out this winding mountain road with steel fiber, iron hammers, and hoes. I know these stories. When he went to the countryside to become a young scholar, two young people in the production team were militiamen who went into the mountains to build roads.
(Panzando to Mizuguchi-ji Temple)
Climb the high Sky Ridge to see the lofty mountains full of green trees, and the winding mountain road hovers in between, and the green mountains seem to have an extra colorful streamer. It is this streamer that was once the main channel for urban and rural construction materials. From 1949 to 1985, Jiangjin supplied 520,000 cubic meters of timber to the "Jiangba County". The first railway built after the founding of New China, the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, Jiangjin contributed 57,612 construction materials to it. After stopping the felling of the forest in the mountains on all sides, this streamer has become a major channel for afforestation and fire prevention.
(Four-sided mountain red seeds)
Cross the Ferris Ridge and descend the mountain with nine turns. Further on, the road is divided into two roads, with Gray Qianyan, Feilong Temple and Dawopu primeval forest on the left, and Chaoyuanguan, Shuikou Temple Waterfall and Shili Yitian on the right.
(Gray Thousand Rock Prehistoric Ba Ren Cliff Painting)
Hidden in a bamboo forest on the bank of the Feilong River, Danxia Chibi depicts cows, sheep, pigs and other animals. According to cultural relics research, these cliff paintings were made by the prehistoric Ba people and are now listed as cultural relics protection units in Chongqing. The cliff painting also confirms from one side that there were ancestors in the mountains on all sides in ancient times. They lived by water, from fishing and hunting to the age of agriculture. In the sunken cliff frame, a farmhouse once lived, and in order to protect the cultural relics, the farmhouse has been relocated, and the traces of smoke and fire still remain in the Danxia Chibi.
(The Flying Dragon Temple was built in the Song Dynasty)
From Gray Thousand Rock along the Flying Dragon River, not far away is the Flying Dragon Temple. Feilong Temple was built in the Song Dynasty, is the most famous temple of the Sichuan-Qian Tea Horse Road, after the war and turmoil in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, most of the old buildings have been damaged, at that time it was used by Feilong Temple Primary School, and has now been rebuilt.
(Flying Dragon Double Bridge)
(Blue Sky Kowloon Gathering at Feilong Temple)
The Flying Dragon Temple is located at the confluence of two rivers, and is connected by stone bridges, called the Flying Dragon Double Bridge, and the piers are placed with stone carved pit vipers. The pit viper is one of the nine sons of the dragon born in ancient Chinese legend, also known as the water-avoiding beast, and the river demon of Nengwei Town. When the ancients built the bridge, they placed the stone carved pit viper at the head of the bridge, in addition to the meaning of flood prevention by the Zhenhe demon, there was also the sustenance of eternal peace in all directions.
(Dawopu Primeval Forest Management and Protection Station)
The Flying Dragon Temple Water Highway is a necessary place to access the primeval forest of Dawopu. The water road is not long, less than 100 meters, and it is naturally formed by a Danshi river beach. On rainy days, flash floods gather on the river beach, flooding the road, and passing vehicles are like boats.
(Dinosaur contemporaneous plant tulip)
Dawopu forest belongs to the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest belt, which is a well-protected primeval forest belt, which is known as a rare gene pool of biological species at the same latitude of the earth. This forest is the most widely distributed with wild tree species such as Cenus tree, Bulbophyllum spp. chinensis, Bulbophyllum coarse, Mu lotus, Sichuan big-leaf tea, and silk chestnut, and also grows medicinal herbs such as eucommia, yellow cypress, magnolia, tianma, and Xinyi, as well as original rare species such as alder tree, ginkgo, double-fan fern, and tulip tulip tree, which are contemporary to dinosaurs.
(Chinese double-fan fern in the jungle of Mizukoji Temple)
This forest area was once infested with South China tigers and clouded leopards, and there are still wild animals such as macaques, rain frogs, forest musk deer, big civets, small civets, hairy-crowned deer, red-bellied pheasant, red-bellied horned pheasant, as well as countless butterflies and insects. Dawopu is a primeval forest reserve, and we only filmed near the ranger area and did not enter the core forest area.
(Mizuguchiji Falls Rainbow)
Suikouji Waterfall is connected to the sky of the Ten Mile Line, and it is also one of the most beautiful areas of the mountains on the four sides. Walking down the winding stone steps, the waterfall of Shuikou Temple is hidden between deep canyons, and more than 90 meters of silver water curtains rush into the sky, falling into deep valley pools, stirring up layers of rain, mist and whistling echoes. The fog wave hit with the wind, and we quickly retreated to the Thousand Buddha Rock platform to ensure that the camera lens did not get wet with the fog beads. The Thousand Buddha Rock is a Danxia stone wall surrounded by Bilin, and the uneven and varied rocks are like treasures left in the mountains, and resemble a Buddha statue, which is pouring out the truth, goodness and beauty of the world. Such a scene, it is not an exaggeration to call it a thousand Buddha rock. There are many plants growing naturally in the waterfall canyon, and Chinese double-fan ferns and tree ferns can be seen everywhere.
(Suguchiji Waterfall and Thousand Buddha Rock)
The Thousand Buddha Cliff is opposite the Shuikoji Waterfall. Chibi is in the sky, and the silver stream hanging high hits the rock at the bottom of the valley with majestic force, stirring up layers of rain and mist that drift with the wind, spreading a looming mist, soaking the surrounding trees into a particularly emerald green. The rain and fog stop and gush, and the misty water drops on the skin to cool the heart. Over the years, the waterfall hits the bottom of the cliff, gradually forming a pool of water, and the clear water overflows the boulder pile and rushes into the babbling stream. A stone paved road accompanied by a stream, connecting the jungle canyon to the outside of the mountain, connecting to the Shuangfeng Ancient Temple, connecting Zhongshan Ancient Town, connecting Jiangjin and Yuzhou.
(Suguchiji Falls)
We walked along the ancient road, through the barren grass and trees, looking for the picture and shooting the pristine canyon scenery. Among them, there are the three-fold waterfall with three curves and endless flow, the Mandarin Duck Waterfall with two streams hanging opposite each other, the monkey blood cliff painted brown and shaped like a beautiful woman, the eagle's beak cliff that is abrupt and like an eagle's beak, and the ten miles of sky with two opposite walls and narrow as a crack, and so on.
(Four Faces Mountain Four Screens Leisure Resort scenery)
While shooting, we named the scenery, forgetting hunger and thirst, forgetting fatigue, barren grass dew soaked through the legs of our trousers, sharp thatch cut through our arms, thirsty to drink a handful of mountain spring water, hungry to nibble a few mouthfuls of cold steamed buns. After walking for more than three hours, I completed the work of photographing the waterfall canyon of Mizukoji Temple.
(Tokumasa Monument next to Mizuguchi-ji Road)
(Ming Dynasty Chaoyuan Guan, Chongqing Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit)
We also photographed the Dezheng Monument, the Forbidden Fishing Monument, Jiangjiazhai, Chaoyuan Temple, Sichuan-Qian Boundary Monument and so on. Climbing the mountains and wading through the water, it took a week, took more than 2,000 photos, and prepared first-hand information for the declaration of scenic spots in Simian Mountain. Unfortunately, the time was short, the roads were difficult, and other of the beauties mentioned by the loggers and villagers were not completed. The most regrettable thing is that I used a Pearl River film camera at that time, after shooting, the film was developed intensively, and the photos were sorted out centrally, except for the memory of the photographic process, I didn't leave a single photo. But it is not a pity that as a hometown person, it is also appropriate to make some contributions at the beginning of the foundation of Simian Mountain tourism.
(North Gate of Mountain View Area)
(East Gate of Mountain View Area)
More than 40 years have passed, and the tourism industry of Simianshan has developed considerably, and the provincial scenic spot has been upgraded to a national 5A-level scenic spot. The external traffic conditions of the mountain scenery area have been greatly improved, and the north gate and east gate are connected to the Jiangxi Expressway, and tourists from all directions can quickly enter the scenic area.
(Jiangxi Expressway Sunxi River Bridge)
The tourist roads in the scenic area have been widened, the safety is better, and more people travel into the mountains. Back then, we went from the town to the scenic area of Shuikou Temple, and the road took nearly 1 hour to go around the mountain, and now there is a tunnel, and it only takes about 10 minutes to reach it. The boardwalks leading to the various waterfalls have also been renovated, and the uphill and downhill slopes are easy to walk, and the view is more convenient. The service conditions of tourist reception in scenic spots have also been significantly improved, with more and more hotels and hotels, sightseeing buses can also transport tourists to various attractions, and the history of measuring the distance of attractions by footsteps is gone.
(Scenic Area Dongmen Yunshan Town)
(Longtan Lakeside Hotel)
The grain, vegetables, chicken, duck and pork in the mountains are environmentally friendly and pollution-free, especially popular with tourists, and can also be sold at a good price. People in the mountains have electricity, running water, mobile phones, and the Internet. Some farmers have also built small buildings, farmhouses and tourist shops. Riding on a tourist ride, the mountain people finally embarked on the road to prosperity.
(Visitors from the Four Mountain Views)
At that time, two of our five-person photography team were already ancient, and I hope that they will not regret the past experience in the Spirit of Heaven. I am also sincerely happy to see the earth-shaking changes in the tourism of Simian Mountain, and to see that the people of Simian Mountain are getting rich day by day.