What about butterfly spring in Yunnan, Dali?

Butterfly spring is located at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan Mountain, and the spring water is as clear as a mirror. Every year we go to the butterfly club, and thousands of butterflies fly from all directions and fly around the spring. Butterflies are as big as palms and as small as copper coins. Countless butterflies are still hanging from acacia trees to the water with their whiskers hooked. Colorful and spectacular.

Legend of butterfly spring-Long, long ago, butterfly spring was called bottomless pool. There are two fathers and daughters living by the swimming pool. This daughter named Wen Gu is as smart and beautiful as a golden flower. When Wen Gu grew up, she and hunter Xia Lang made a lifelong commitment. Later, Wen Gu was taken away by the landlord, and Xia Lang tried his best to save him when he came back from hunting. Unexpectedly, the officers and men chased after each other and were cornered. They both jumped into the bottomless pool. Suddenly, there was thunder and lightning and a storm. After the rain cleared, a pair of beautiful butterflies flew out of the pool, followed by countless small butterflies. It was 15 in April of the lunar calendar. Since then, on this day every year, countless beautiful butterflies will gather here to tell this touching love story. This is the famous "Butterfly Club".

Butterfly spring is close to Zhoucheng, the largest Bai village in Dali, with a population of nearly 9,000. This used to be the royal garden of the king of Dali. There is an ancient stage in the village, as well as the main temple, Wenchang Palace and other ancient buildings. Now it has become a Bai folk-custom tourist village.

Butterfly spring and butterfly spring are one of the famous tourist attractions, with beautiful scenery, clear springs and unique wonders (Butterfly Club). With the spread of the film Five Golden Flowers, which reflects the life of the Bai people, butterfly spring, a strange landscape, is famous at home and abroad. Best time to travel: The Butterfly Festival will be held on April 15th of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, thousands of butterflies will fly from all directions, flying all over the sky by the spring, end to end, which is a spectacle.

Singles Reminder: In the hearts of Bai people, butterfly spring is a fountain symbolizing love and loyalty. Every year, during the Butterfly Festival, young men and women from all walks of life will come here to "throw stones to test the water" and find their Mr. Right with songs. Visitors here should try to find their Mr. Right. Don't miss it.

Introduction of scenic spots:

Butterfly spring, which Xu Xiake has heard about for a long time, has "three unique skills": spring, butterfly and tree.

The first is "spring". The water in butterfly spring is soaked in the sand layer in the crevices of rocks, and the water quality is particularly clear. Once surfaced, it will gather into a beach without any pollution. In recent years, the spring water gushing from butterfly spring has been treasured by park managers in three pools, one larger than the other, for people to watch. The largest pond is about 10 mu. Butterfly spring has changed from one pool in the past to four pools now, which is the most conspicuous landscape of butterfly spring Park.

Followed by "butterflies." There are many kinds of butterflies in butterfly spring. Every spring from March to May, butterflies are as big as palms and as small as bees, hanging in strings on acacia trees by the spring. April 15 was designated as the butterfly society by the Bai people. Xu Xiake once described it in his travels: "There are thousands of real butterflies hanging from the top of the tree to the surface of the spring with their feet hooked." Guo Moruo, a famous poet, wrote a poem when he visited butterfly spring in Dali in the autumn of 196 1, "There are thousands of butterflies flying in butterfly spring, with their heads and tails connected several meters, and their inflorescences hanging from the trees." One said that the butterfly was hooked with its feet, and the other said that the butterfly was connected end to end. Neither scholar saw the spectacle of butterflies hanging in strings under the tree in spring, because their time was different. Which statement is closer to the details depends on the tourists themselves. Butterflies don't fly around butterfly spring all the time. Except for a few days in April every year, you can't see this spectacle at other times. If you happen to miss the butterfly club, don't feel sorry. The newly-built Butterfly Pavilion to the south of butterfly spring truly reproduces the ecology, species and butterfly culture related to butterflies in butterfly spring, and provides valuable information for tourists who can't visit the Butterfly Club to understand the wonders of butterfly spring.

Finally, the "tree". In butterfly spring Park, there is an environmental protection placard that says, "The beauty of butterfly spring is green, please take good care of paddling". This sentence truly shows the beauty of butterfly spring, not only because of the newly planted trees we saw along the way, such as phoenix-tailed bamboos and Christmas trees, but also because of the pine forests, Berlin, palm forests, tea forests, azaleas and bamboo forests that have spread all over the mountains and plains since spring, and even more because of the acacia trees and sour incense in butterfly spring. This acacia tree near butterfly spring, whenever it blooms in early April, its petals open like butterflies during the day and close at night, giving off bursts of fragrance. The poet vividly praised the butterfly as a "flying flower", while the flower of this acacia tree is a "still butterfly". During the butterfly festival, flowers and butterflies dance, which is a great spectacle of butterfly spring.

Deng Ting Wang Yuan Wang Haige: Jiming Mountain flies, and the Leng Yan Tower on the top of the mountain is faintly visible; Houses in villages such as mountain depressions and double corridors are faintly discernible in the fields; Two waters are like mirrors; There are Shangguan in the north and Xizhou in the south, and the smoke trees are diffuse; Jiang Wei village on the right front is like a sword, which goes straight into Erhai Lake. This sea-looking pavilion is really a good place to see the sea.

There is a vigorous old acacia tree by the pool in the northwest corner of butterfly tree spring pool. The branches and leaves are swaying and the shade covers the sky. This is a butterfly tree, which spans the spring. Whenever the old tree blooms in late spring and early summer, it looks like a colorful butterfly, emitting the fragrance that attracts butterflies. At that time, butterflies were flying in groups, one hanging from the branches to the surface of the spring, forming thousands of butterfly strings.

Special note: Butterflies don't fly around butterfly spring at any time. Except for a few days in April every year, you can't see this spectacle at other times. It's absolutely boring not to visit butterfly spring at an inappropriate time.

Since ancient times, many scholars have been here and written many important poems.

Xu Xiake, a famous geographer in Ming Dynasty, praised butterfly spring warmly in his travel notes. He wrote: "When a tree grows in spring, it will bloom in early April like a butterfly, and its wings must be obvious, just like a butterfly. There are thousands of real butterflies, even with their feet hooked, hanging from the top of the tree and hanging on the surface of the spring, colorful and colorful. Tourists are watching with this month group, which has been in May. " Sha Chen, a poet in Qing Dynasty, praised in his poem "Butterfly in Shangguan": "There are thousands of butterflies on a blurred butterfly tree, and the title ends like a tassel. Who will believe until you get to butterfly spring? The shadow of the building solemnly covers the butterfly. "

Butterfly spring is located at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Diancang Mountain, Dali. It is like a transparent gem, embedded in the shade, attracting tourists from far and near with its unique wonders.

Take a bus from Shimonoseki and walk more than 30 kilometers north along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway. On the left side of the bus, there is an antique stone archway. The inscription "butterfly spring" on the memorial archway is the ink left by Guo Moruo when he visited Dali.

From the archway to butterfly spring, it is about 100 meters long, and the spring pool is 23 feet square, surrounded by transparent marble into an enlarged cylinder. The spring water is crystal clear, and a series of silver blisters slowly gush out of the sand, gurgling out of the water and splashing. This spring water has the function of melting snow in Cangshan Mountain, which not only has stable water quantity, but also has excellent water quality.

From the archway to butterfly spring, it is about 100 meters long, and the spring pool is 23 feet square, surrounded by transparent marble into an enlarged cylinder. The spring water is crystal clear, and a series of silver blisters slowly gush out of the sand, gurgling out of the water and splashing. This spring water has the function of melting snow in Cangshan Mountain, which not only has stable water quantity, but also has excellent water quality.

Every year in March and April of the lunar calendar, all kinds of exotic flowers and herbs on Yunnong Mountain compete to open, and acacia trees in spring exude elegant fragrance, attracting thousands of butterflies to come to the party. These butterflies are as big as palms and as small as bees. They dance in colorful camellias, azaleas and other flowers, or play on the heads of blooming tourists. There are countless colorful butterflies hanging upside down on acacia trees, their feet hooked, forming a long line and hanging to the water. Under the sunshine, they are colorful and spectacular. Especially on April 15 of the lunar calendar, if the weather is fine, it will be an unprecedented event. Butterflies are not only amazing in number, but also various in variety, such as Pteropteris, Papilio, etc., which merge into a butterfly world.

The Legend of butterfly spring

On the day of Butterfly Festival, people who catch up with butterflies will come in droves, wearing red and green, laughing and laughing to make butterflies more spring-like. There is also a touching fairy tale about the origin of Butterfly Club:

Butterfly spring is also called bottomless pool. In ancient times, there was a place called Yangjiao Village under Yunnong Peak. There is a beautiful and clever girl, Wen Gu. Her diligence and beauty made the boys dream of her pure love. There is a handsome young Bai hunter named Yunnong Peak. He is not only good at martial arts, but also kind-hearted. One year, Wen Gu and Xia Lang met at the Chaoshan meeting on March 3rd, and fell in love at first sight, making a lifelong commitment to each other. There lived a ferocious Yu Wang at the foot of Cangshan Mountain. He learned that Wen Gu was very beautiful and decided to make Wen Gu his eighth wife. So I sent someone to rob Wen Gu into the palace. When Xia Lang knew about it, he risked his life to sneak into the palace to rescue Wen Gu. After Yu Wang found out, he immediately led the troops in pursuit. When they ran to the bottomless pool, they were exhausted and the pursuers with swords, guns and torches had arrived. In the crisis, both of them jumped into the bottomless pool. The next day, the villagers who salvaged Xia Lang and Wengu didn't find their feet, but they saw a pair of colorful and beautiful butterflies flying out of a huge bubble coming out of a deep pool. Colorful butterflies are inseparable on the water, flying everywhere, attracting countless butterflies to come from all directions to play in the water and hover over the pool. From then on, people called this bottomless pool butterfly spring. Although this is a legend, there are thousands of butterflies of different shapes meeting here every year in the spring when the mountain flowers are in full bloom in April of the lunar calendar.

The cause of butterfly spring is related to the environmental conditions in this area. The spring water faces Cangshan Mountain in the west and Erhai Lake in the east. Cangshan is tall and straight, like a screen, with snow on the top and crystal clear in summer. Clouds gather and rain grows, precipitation is abundant, and trees and grass are all soldiers. Erhai Lake, with a total area of about 240 square kilometers, has beautiful scenery and flowers, and the four seasons are like spring. Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake not only provide the beautiful scenery of "Silver Cang Yu Er" for human beings, but also constitute the natural environment for large-scale reproduction and growth of insects such as butterflies. Butterfly spring is located in the northeast plate of Erhai fault. Many sinkholes and karst caves have been formed under the action of groundwater dissolution, and karst aquifers have been formed by atmospheric precipitation and surface water recharge. The groundwater in the aquifer flows along the corroded pipeline, and is intercepted by fine loose objects at the contact part with alluvial deposits, and overflows the surface to form butterfly springs. The water inflow of this spring is about 18.77 liters/second. The salinity of spring water is less than 0.5 g/L, which belongs to heavy calcium carbonate magnesium water, odorless and tasteless, and the water quality is light and beautiful. The beauty of spring and the acacia beside it make butterflies naturally enjoy it. It can be seen that Liang Shanbo and Liang Shanbo died not because of Liang Shanbo and Liang Shanbo's death, but because of the special environmental conditions there.

Unfortunately, in recent ten years, it has been difficult for people to see the beautiful butterfly festival. Sometimes butterflies gather, but the number is small. According to local elders' rumors, there used to be an original Zipeng tree with dense branches and leaves, white flowers and fragrant hair near butterfly spring. The branches of flowers are wrapped around the trunk of the cross-inclined spring, and butterflies are strung together along these drooping branches. At present, the purple canopy has been demolished, the leaves on the spring surface have withered, and the surrounding natural environment has been destroyed. A lot of pesticides were used in the fields, and many butterflies were accidentally injured. The spectacle of feet hooked on the surface of the spring has long since disappeared. It seems that only by carefully studying the growth law of butterflies, strengthening the protection of the natural environment and striving to maintain the ecological balance can the charming butterfly event be restored and carried forward.