In the early autumn, the rain is still continuous. At two o'clock in the afternoon, I got into the car to Linjiapu and followed the staff of Baoshan TV station to the Linjiapu area of Gaoligong Mountain to shoot a biodiversity documentary. About half an hour later, the car came to QushiJi Town, walked along the road, left the town, and embarked on the ring road specially built for the Gaoligong Mountain Linjiapu Monitoring Station.
The winding mountain road is constantly beautiful. The mist on the distant mountains is steaming, like a fairy descending, and the marigolds on the side of the road are competing to bloom, an orange-red, so lively! At the end of the road is the Gaoligong Mountain Linjiapu Scientific Research monitoring station, and when the car enters the station, the rain has not stopped.
After a nap, the rain stopped. The group began to enter the mountain forest and go to Wudao Creek. The mountain road is narrow bluestone slab, steep and dangerous. Inside the reserve, only a handful of rangers walked on these routes, and the roadside weeds grew taller than I did, and the water on the grass wet my pant legs. After a long rain and a clear day, a thin layer of moss on the bluestone slab, each step must be taken carefully. The leaves were scattered with water droplets, crystal clear, the branches were shaking, and the full and rounded water droplets slipped from the branches and dripped onto us from time to time, and after a while, the clothes felt a little damp. Although the road is arduous, along the way, all kinds of plants, lush and beautiful, let me open my eyes.
Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve has 5726 higher plants, at the same time, Gaoligong Mountain is also a natural plant "museum", there are Tibetan yew, Yunnan yew, long rui magnolia, light leaf juniper, alder, ten-tooth flower, aquamarine tree, Dong palm, Gongshan three-pointed fir, oil wheat hanging spruce, Ruilishan longan, long-beaked houpu, golden iron lock, lettuce, warthog sheath beimu orchid, Tengchong lampstand primrose, safflower wood lotus and so on. Many trees have signs that introduce themselves: what subject I am, where I come from, how old am I, where I like to live.
Strikingly, a sign in the middle of the grass reads: "The Big Tree Rhododendron Returns to Planting Experiment." Pulling through the grass, I saw a sapling with four large wide leaves that were glowing green, and in the middle of the leaves was a small flower bone, and at intervals of distance, there was a small sapling. Each large tree rhododendron root has a small card, the card is a two-dimensional code, the mobile phone scans the two-dimensional code, the number and basic information of the large tree rhododendron will appear. The world's most famous cuckoo king, the Big Tree Rhododendron, is located on a steep slope in the reserve. The old dry branches of the tree are covered with moss, lichens, dendrobium and other orchids. With a chest diameter of 330 cm, it blooms more than 40,000 flowers a year, leading the way with its bright and huge flowers and majestic momentum. Rhododendron is distributed in the western part of Yunnan Province, China, mainly in the mixed forest of Gaoligong Mountain at an altitude of 2100-3300 meters. Rhododendron macrophyllum is a critically endangered species that is not easy to breed.
Continuing along the mountain road, the bluestone slab road has become an irregular stone block, the potholed road is full of rain-dried wood lotus flowers, and the white petals fall on the stones, like a woman's floral skirt. Birds chirp in the forest, calling for companionship, this is a paradise for birds. Stretching for 600 kilometers, Gaoligong Mountain is extremely rich in species, and 525 species of birds of 19 orders, 58 families and families have been recorded in this mountain that contains natural codes, which is one of the richest bird resources in Yunnan Province and one of the richest bird resources in China. Birds are diverse and concentrated.
According to reports, there are white-tailed rainbow pheasants, golden eagles, black vultures, black-necked long-tailed pheasants, blood pheasants, red-breasted horned pheasants and other national first- and second-level protected wild birds, as well as rare birds in the wild such as red-breasted horned pheasants, gray-bellied horned pheasants, red-throated mountain partridges, mountain emperor doves, green-throated bee tigers, and blood finches.
The mountain road is getting narrower and narrower, the forest is getting denser, and the green vines in the forest are connected, and they are hooked by the barbs on the green vines from time to time. Forked from the gravel road into the dense forest, there is no obvious road here, and the soft ground, stepping on it creaks.
Walking down, overgrown with weeds, I heard the sound of running water splashing in the distance, and my pace couldn't help but speed up. Near the water source, suddenly open, a circular pool, with a number of outlets, rushing down. The pond is crystal clear, the pond is rich in aquatic grass, and a few dead branches look particularly clean against the background of the blue sky. This is a man-made pool, according to the fellow rangers, this is for the animals on the mountain to drink water conveniently. Gaoligong Mountain is a long mountain range, a branch of the Hengduan Mountains, and is extremely rich in biodiversity! The national first-class protected animals living in Gaoligong Mountain are the white-browed gibbon, the bear monkey, the white-tailed rainbow pheasant, the guinea-tailed monkey, the Fei's langur, the bee monkey, the Malay bear, the clouded leopard, the golden leopard, the tiger, the Bengal tiger, the antelope, the black stork, the golden eagle, the red-breasted horned pheasant, the gray-bellied horned pheasant, the black-necked long-tailed pheasant, the green peacock, the red-necked crane and so on. There are also different wild animals in different mountain sections, such as black bears, chamois, deer, macaques, langurs, white ibises, giant squirrels, flying squirrels, green parrots, red-throated (blue roaring woodpeckers, rock sheep, red iguanas, clouded leopards, ocelots, all kinds of wild pheasants (bamboo chickens, grouse, horse chickens, etc.), porcupines, wild boars, sunbirds, etc.!
Walking down the pond, I heard that there was an ancient bridge there, and the ancient bridge was not a stone bridge that you usually see, but a chain bridge. Sure enough, a chain bridge comes into view. The bridge is made up of thick chains and planks. Walking along the lounging bridge, there are moss-covered stone steps. The forest is full of creaks, the sound of insects is high and low, intermittent, and colorful butterflies fly in the mountains, flapping their wings, free.
There are as many as 1720 species of insects on Gaoligong Mountain, Tengchong is located on the western slope of the southern section of Gaoligong Mountain, with a unique geographical location and excellent natural environment, providing a better living space for butterflies, and more than 200 kinds of butterflies are currently recorded in Tengchong. The butterfly composition is dominated by species from the Himalayas and the mountainous regions of southwestern Yunnan. Among them, the representative butterfly species of Tengchong are Tibetan salient butterfly, window butterfly, multi-tailed phoenix butterfly, Tibetan haiku butterfly, etc., among which there are more unique butterfly species in the Gaoligong Mountain Range - Gaoligong tail butterfly.
On the way home, it is late, the twilight is pale, and the forest birds are home. Long lived in Tengchong, but never climbed Gaoligong Mountain, today's trip, Fang felt that I was like a salamander of the ruler, sitting in a well and watching the sky. Gaoligong Mountain is rich in species, rich in resources, and beautiful natural scenery, which is breathtaking! Standing at the foot of the mountain, looking up, only to see the undulating peaks, overlapping and surrounding, the mountain road winding and deep, the green leaves of the mountains, complementing each other. Standing still, leaning under the ancient walnut tree, I only felt that the natural creation was vast, and the man was so low and small.
Text: He Baofeng
Photo: Liu Zhengfan, Bi Zheng, Li Hengyu, Duan Qiji, Zhang Li
Source: Tengchong News Network
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Editor: Li Meilan
Editor-in-Charge: Yang Qingzong
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