Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area Traffic Guide

Traffic Guide of Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area: Self-driving traffic: Zhengzhou starts from Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, passes through Xuchang, Luohe and Zhumadian, gets off at Minggang in Zhumadian, and takes Minggang-Tongbai Provincial Road to Tongbai County. Or take Xupingnan Expressway, get off at Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, take the social flag, get on the National Highway 3 12, cross the Tanghe River and reach Tongbai.

Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area stretches at the junction of Henan and Hubei provinces in the middle of the towering Tongbai Mountain Group, three kilometers away from Tongbai County. Divided into water curtain cave, Taibaiding, Huaiyuan, Taohua Cave and other attractions, each with its own characteristics. There are hundreds of famous peaks and 58 mountain springs and streams, which belong to the transitional zone between north and south and have four distinct seasons. This area has beautiful mountains and rivers, continuous mountains and rivers, intact vegetation, numerous animals and plants, and thousands of acres of virgin forest, which is really a natural forest park.

Tongbai Mountain is the birthplace of Huaihe River in Li Qian, one of the four major blasphemies in China in history. Shuilian Temple is in danger, and Yuntai Temple, whose main peak is Taibai Peak, is one of the birthplaces of Taoism in the Central Plains. With the same name as Mount Putuo, there are many eminent monks spread all over more than ten countries and regions in Southeast Asia. The Huaiyuan Scenic Area in Tongbai Mountain has initially formed an ideal place for eating, living, traveling, shopping and entertainment, and has become a tourist hotline that controls the Central Plains in the north, embraces Chu Xiang in the south, welcomes Han Dong in the east and connects Wanluo in the west. Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area is located in the middle of the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain at the junction of southern Henan and northern Hubei. The specific coordinates are: east longitude112 47'-131',north latitude 3217'-.

Tongbai Mountain is the birthplace of Huaihe River. Located in the transition zone from Qinling to Dabie Mountain, this area is characterized by beautiful peaks, overlapping mountains, dense forests, numerous waterfalls and springs, and numerous scenery. Experts rated it as "more dangerous than Huashan, competing with Huangshan." She takes the unique Huaiyuan culture as the connotation, and has Pangu culture, Buddhism and Taoism culture, geological culture and Soviet area culture;

It is characterized by the most complete natural ecological environment at the intersection of north and south climate and the rare primitive secondary vegetation in the Central Plains, and has become a representative of the magnificent rivers and mountains in China and a fascinating place. Huaihe River is honored as "Fengshui River" by Chinese people, and it is also called "four blasphemies" in ancient China along with Yellow River, Yangtze River and water conservation. In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (22 1 year BC), imperial edicts offered sacrifices to famous mountains and rivers, including Huai and Ji. Huaici Temple, or Huaidu Temple, was built here. Later, in order to protect and eliminate disasters, emperors of all dynasties, from the God of the East to the Duke of Changyuan, were named the Huaihe River God, and their temples became more and more magnificent according to the scale of princes in previous restoration. All kinds of halls, buildings, platforms, pavilions, pavilions and decorations showed their lofty authority, such as stone lions, water beasts, flagpoles and huabiao. Every early spring, an imperial envoy from the imperial court comes to worship the Huai God. In front of the temple, the civil servant got off the sedan chair and the military attache dismounted and came in. Generally speaking, the attache must crawl forward.

There are many stone tablets in the temple, and the cypresses are towering. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally wrote an article and carved a huge monument in the temple. Ling Du An Lan, the imperial book of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, was offered as a sacrifice; Yong Zhengdi's "Hui Ji He Cao" canonized the temple, and Huaidu became the earliest, highest specification and largest temple in China at that time. Huaiyuan's unique scenery has attracted many famous poets to visit and appreciate it. Liu Bang in Han Dynasty, Li Bai in Tang Dynasty, Du Fu, Su Shi in Song Dynasty and Cai Xiang all roamed here for the first time. He Jingming, one of the "seven sons of Zheng Hong" in Ming Dynasty, has lived here since he was named Dafu Mountain (Tongbai Mountain). According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 100 literati who come here to enjoy the scenery and recite poems, and more than 300 works have been handed down. Huaiyuan occupies a unique and irreplaceable position in China's scenic resources.

Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area is also a place where Pangu culture, myths and legends are very concentrated. The Chronicle of Five Bureaus written by Xú Zhēng, a chronicler of the Three Kingdoms, records that "Pangu opened heaven and earth, and blood was king". Tongbai folk legends and myths about Pangu are very rich, and Pangu Temple, Pangu Mountain, Pangu Boat, Pangu Well, Pangu Mill and other Pangu buildings related to Pangu culture can be seen everywhere. Yuan Ke, a famous mythological expert in China, visited Tongbai Mountain many times and thought that "Tongbai Mountain is the center of Pangu culture in the Central Plains". There are also many legends about "Dayu controlling water", "Yu Wang locking the key" and "Sun God". Yugong contains: "(Yu) led the Huai River from Tongbai". According to legend, Dayu ruled the Huaihe River and found that Wu, a water demon, was at work when the Huaihe River flooded, that is, phoebus apollo took the water god needle in his hand and chained it to the Huai well.

However, Chen Geng was infatuated with the beautiful scenery of Tongbai Mountain and didn't want to follow Dayu's eastward expedition to control water. Dayu beheaded him in a rage. The local people thought that Chen Geng was a demon, so they stoned the top of the mountain where Dayu hacked to death in Chen Geng, and called it "Sun City". Pangu culture and Sun God culture are accumulating. In addition, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Cheng'en made a county magistrate in Xinye, a neighboring county of Tongbai, during which he visited Tongbai Mountain many times. Later, according to the story of "Yu Wang Suojiao" and the place names of water curtain cave, Tongtianhe, Fangmachang, Taibaiding, Huaguoshan and Laojuntang, The Journey to the West, a masterpiece handed down from ancient times, was completed. In A Brief History of Chinese Novels, Mr. Lu Xun also clearly testified that "Wu is the prototype of Sun Wukong", and the Huaiyuan Scenic Spot in Tongbai Mountain provided the origin of "Western learning spreading eastward". This is also very rare in domestic scenic culture.

Buddhism and Taoism culture also occupies a heavy weight in the cultural connotation of Tongbai Scenic Area. Tongbaishan Taoism has a long history. In the Han Dynasty, Taibaiding was built with the calendar of "security concept" and "golden pavilion and kingfisher", which was one of the eight old scenic spots in Tongbai. Zhang Sanfeng, the originator of Wu-Tang School, once taught the truth here. At present, the incense of Taoism, the ancestor of the Ten Tombs in China, is still flourishing. Tongbai Mountain is called "the 41st blessed land in the world" and "the 36th cave" by Taoism.

The introduction of Buddhism into Tongbai Mountain began in Sui and Tang Dynasties and flourished in Qing Dynasty. In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong, Duande, the great monk of Wei Zi Zong Lin Temple in Ningyuan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, came to Tongbai Mountain, and established the Baiyun Mountain system of Linji Sect with Tongbai Mountain as the main peak and Taibaiding Yuntai Temple as the main temple. He is honored as Huaguang Dezu. After being managed by a mage, there are more than 20 temples in Tongbai Mountain, and there are more than 600 monks at the peak of incense. Buddhism, because of its great virtue, has been constantly researching and innovating. It was once as famous as Mount Putuo in Zhejiang, and was known as "Putuo in the south and Yuntai in the north".

During the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, Maha, the abbot of Yuntai Temple, was called into the palace to do Buddhist work for the imperial court. Later, the emperor gave him 1000 Buddhist robes and a gold hook Yuhuan. This thing is now in Yuntai Temple as a treasure of the town house. In the 1930s, a master of Yuntai Temple gave a lecture in Xujiahui, Shanghai, which was divided into north and south with the master of Beijing Dafa, and was sometimes called "southern France and northern France". A well-known monk from Yuntai Temple once led a monk group to India to preach Buddhism, and Indian Prime Minister Nehru 1958 visited China. He once offered to interview Yuntai Temple, but he couldn't make it because of inconvenient transportation and other reasons. Today, the monks in Baiyun Mountain have been passed down for 14 generations, and monks are all over Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Sichuan, Henan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Myanmar, India and other countries and regions. For example, Myanmar Miao Zhi masters such as Master Xiu, Master Lotus Temple, Master Chang Huai, permanent tutor of Hong Kong Youth Buddhist Association, and Master Rujian of India all became monks in Tongbai Mountain. At present, Shuilian Temple in Tongbai Mountain, Suoguo Temple in Kaifeng, Baima Temple in Luoyang and Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng are also called "the four famous temples in Central China".

Tongbai Mountain is also a transitional zone between the north and south climate and the dividing line between the two major water systems. There are majestic mountains in the north and beautiful scenery in southern Xinjiang. Therefore, there are many strange mountains and rocks here, mountain springs and waterfalls can be seen everywhere, vegetation is intact, and there are many kinds of animals and plants, which meet and penetrate each other from north to south. According to the investigation, there are 326 species of vertebrates belonging to 76 families in 33 orders, among which 33 species are listed as rare animals under special state protection, such as leopard, golden eagle, otter, civet, musk deer, white-crowned pheasant, giant salamander, pangolin, Qingyang, red-winged cuckoo and so on. It has a good forest ecosystem in the transitional zone, and the flora of north and south is compatible. Known as the unique gene bank and natural museum of natural biological species in the Central Plains, natural vegetation has become a unique landscape in the scenic spot.

There are many ancient and famous trees here, including more than 100 ancient trees, such as cypress and ginkgo, all of which are over 1000 years old. In particular, the existing Millennium Ginkgo tree in Qingquan Temple is the first in the Central Plains, and there are stone tablets erected in the 11th year of Yongzheng. The inscription reads: "Qingquan Temple, an ancient temple, stands tall, with ginkgo trees in front of it. This was thousands of years ago. Look at its situation. It is surrounded by mountains, trees are shaded, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, and bamboo forests are dense. At present, the trunk circumference of the tree is 9.8m, the basal circumference is 1 1m, the height of the tree is 27.5m and the crown width is 25.5m.. ..

Tongbai Mountain is located on the Tongbai-Shangcheng fault zone. In the process of special geological formation, the landform structure is complex. From south to north, valleys develop and the cutting depth is large. Therefore, there are many strange mountains and different rocks here, and underground minerals are very rich. There are 60 kinds of minerals preliminarily proved, and the per capita possession of raw ore value is 14 times of the national average. There are natural heavy soda mines in Asia and the second in the world, open-pit gold mines that are the first of the four silver mines in China, and "Tongbai Mine" and "Weishan Mine" that were first discovered in the world and named by the International Mineral Society. The International Mineral Society and China Academy of Sciences have sent scholars to visit here many times, and Tongbai Mountain has been called "the geological mystery of China", "geological museum" and "the window of geology" by academic circles. Hongshiya is a rare Danxia landform in the scenic area. The cliff is divided into three layers and hundreds of meters high. If you look at Xia Hong, there are many caves, waterfalls and hot springs, which is a rare sight.

Many peaks in the scenic area are above 1000 meters above sea level. The mountains here are steep, overlooking the Central Plains in the north, and looking at Chutian in the south, Qian Shan is full of valleys. It has a unique prospect. Whenever cold air passes by, the clouds in the mountains are faint and ethereal, thick and calm, magnificent and spectacular, or changing rapidly, like jade with waterfalls; Suddenly, the clouds are steaming and foggy, and the peak is submerged by the sea of clouds, and the wind and rain are swaying. The clouds are like Malik Pentium; Suddenly the sun shines high in the sky, the peak is like an island, and the sea of clouds at the foot is spectacular. "Dafuyun" is one of the eight scenic spots in Tongbai.

Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area is also full of rich Soviet culture. Party and state leaders Liu Shaoqi, Li Xiannian, Wang Zhen, Yang Jingyu, Peng Xuefeng and Wang Shusheng all fought and worked here. During the 22 years from 1925 to 1947, six provincial, five prefecture-level and 12 county-level leading bodies of the party, government and army were established here. The former Central Plains Military Region and Central China Central Plains Bureau are located here. 1945101On October 24th, the "Tongbai Armed Forces Conference" played an important role in the history of China's War of Liberation. Former President Li Xiannian wrote inscriptions for the Monument to Tongbai Heroes and the Memorial Hall of Tongbai Revolution. Tongbai has become an important base for educating future generations.

With its unique advantages in natural resources and irreplaceable Huaiyuan culture in domestic scenic spots, Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area has attracted wide attention from governments at all levels and people at home and abroad. 1982 was approved by the provincial government as a provincial nature reserve, 1996 as a provincial scenic spot, and 1997 as one of the top ten civilized scenic spots in Henan province. Tourists from more than 20 countries and regions come here for sightseeing and ancestor worship. Its natural and human landscape is of high quality, and only a part of resources are developed and utilized, so it has broad development prospects. If it is well developed, protected and utilized, it can become a veritable representative of China's magnificent rivers and mountains.

Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area is located in the Central Plains, with a superior geographical position, in the center of six large and medium-sized cities, namely Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Nanyang, Xinyang, Xiangfan and Henan Oilfield. Wuhan 175km to the south, Xinyang 75km to the east, Zhengzhou 343km to the north, Nanyang 125km to the west, and National Highway 3 12 passes along the scenic spot, so the transportation is convenient.

Water curtain cave: water curtain cave is one of the main scenic spots in Huaiyuan Scenic Area of Tongbai Mountain, which is located on the 48-meter-high cliff of Tingcui Peak. This cave is10m wide and 5m deep. There is a stone statue of the Monkey King in it. The river fell from the sky and covered the hole. When it rains, the dragon and tiger roar, and when it is sunny, the hair is broken. A spring in the cave contributed water droplets, which were collected in a stone bowl. Its water is sweet and crisp, and it doesn't dry up in four seasons. There are stone tables and benches for rest around. Through the snow curtain, you can overlook the mountain temples such as Sun City. "Snow hanging on the water curtain" is one of the eight scenic spots in Tongbai since Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Water Lotus Temple in Dongxiang is a famous Buddhist shrine in the Central Plains. Renovation in song dynasty, 1984 Tongbai county government rebuilt. At present, there are 120 halls, such as Daxiong Hall, Pilu Hall, Jade Buddha Hall, Tianwang Hall, Monk's Monastery, Gongde Hall, Zen Forest Hall, Luohan Hall and Huacang Library. Plum blossom and pine clouds meet in front of the temple, showing the trend of double dragons holding pearls, and the morning bells and drums are full of Buddha's breath all day long. There are bamboo forest, Guanyin Zen forest, Miaofa Temple, Shipan Temple and Shangyuan Temple beside the temple. There are many temples in one place, and the temples are connected, which is called "a must in Zhongzhou". On the west side of water curtain cave, there is a reclining Buddha, with its head south and its feet north, lying facing the sky, with a treasure stack on its head and a flower and fruit mountain at its foot, which is 6 kilometers long. The bun, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose of the Buddha are clear and debatable, very mysterious and lifelike.

Taohua Cave: Taohua Cave is located in the Grand Canyon on the west side of Taibaiding. On both sides of the canyon, the peaks are towering, the ancient trees are dense, and the rocks stand on them. Seventy-two holes of different sizes are distributed on it. There is a big hole in the west wall, namely the Peach Blossom Cave, which is said to be the residence of the Peach Blossom Fairy. The peach blossom cave is two feet wide, nine feet high and more than seven feet deep. There is a well called "Longchi" in the depths. There is a "Guanyin Cave" on the east wall, and there are Guanyin and eighteen arhats in the cave. There is a "Sun Bin Cave" in the north, with two floors up and down and several feet deep. It is said that Sun Bin once wrote a book here. There is a "gong and drum cave" in the south, where stones are struck, and the sound is like gongs and drums, which is wonderful and unusual.

Puhua Temple in front of Taohua Cave is the representative of the standard grotto culture in the Central Plains, with a history of more than 260 years. At the bottom of the canyon, boulders roar and streams tinkle, which is the source of Lishui and flows into the Yangtze River. Peach Blossom Cave is connected with three ponds and one stream, which has the famous "fairy mercy" landscape of Tongbai. The myths and legends inside are even more interesting, such as Tianqiao Temple, Tiefo Temple and "Looking at Huai in bud". In the spring of March, the peach blossoms in front of the Peach Blossom Cave are in full bloom, and the flowers are ten miles long, and the fragrance overflows the valley, just like the morning glow, magnificent and enchanting. "Peach Blossom in Cave" is one of the eight ancient sights of Tongbai in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Taibaiding: Taibaiding is located in the west of Tongbai County15km state-owned Chen Zhuang Forest Farm. It is the main peak of Tongbai Mountain, with an altitude of1140m. This mountain is steep, beautiful, majestic and famous. Climbing high and looking far, looking at the Central Plains in the north and reading Chutian in the south, the mountains are all over the world and the eyes are thousands of miles away. There is a famous temple at the top, Yuntai Temple, which is the ancestral hall of Baiyun Mountain of Lin Ji School of Buddhism, and can be called Potala Palace in the Central Plains. On the east side of the temple is Dahuai Well, which is the source of Huaihe River. There is a Liang Dong between the stone walls 30 meters southeast of the well. It is said that Zhang Lianggong withdrew his troops and broke the valley here. There are also landscapes such as Songyuetai, Tiger Cave and Xiaohuai Well. The forest around Taibaiding blocked the sunlight, and 1982 was designated as a provincial nature reserve. There are 33 species of national first-class protected animals and 4/kloc-0 species of national key protected plants, which are compatible between the north and the south. Now it is a national forest park.