Landscape Humanities: A Look at Anhui’s Landscapes (Seventy-Six)

Ziwei Cave: Deep and natural with "four wonders"

In the northern suburbs of Chaohu City, there is a mountain named Ziwei. The mountain is not high and dangerous, but it is connected to and surrounded by the surrounding Maji Mountain, Dajianshan, Wanjiashan, and Fenghuang Mountains, making it appear deep and secluded.

Ziwei Mountain is famous for its two natural caves. One is called Ziwei Cave and the other is Wang Qiao Cave. Today, Ziwei Cave is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, and Wangqiaodong Grottoes are an important attraction in the scenic area.

Entering Ziwei Mountain, there is a couplet at the gate of the scenic spot. The upper couplet is "The purple air spreads across ten miles and the beauty is beautiful", and the second couplet is " The gentle breeze ripples the longitude and latitude of thousands of directions, making it graceful and graceful."

Ziwei Cave, also known as Shuangjing Cave, is named after the cave has two natural well-shaped entrances, large and small, nearly 30 meters away from the bottom of the cave. The total length of this cave is more than 3,000 meters, with the main cave reaching 1,500 meters. The branch caves are crisscrossed around Ziwei Mountain and cannot be explored yet. The cave is in the shape of a corridor. It is majestic, strange, dangerous and secluded. It integrates natural and cultural landscapes and is known as the "No. 1 Cave in Jiangbei".

The cave is full of twists and turns, ups and downs. Here there are numerous stalactites, stone pillars, jagged rocks, hidden caves, connected caves, rivers under the caves, and waterfalls above the caves. It is really majestic, profound, mysterious and strange.

Wangqiao Cave is located in the south of Ziwei Cave. It is characterized by cliff grottoes and is the only grotto art treasure house between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River. According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Prince Qiao (surnamed Ji, given name Jin, given name Zijin) was demoted to a commoner for his direct advice and lived here to practice Taoism.

The Wangqiaodong Grottoes are natural limestone caves in the shape of a half-moon, with openings connecting the two ends, resembling a city gate. The whole cave is 57.6 meters long, wide from the south and narrow from the north, with a flat bottom. There are more than 500 relief statues and animals from the Sui and Tang Dynasties on the two walls of the cave, with various shapes.

There are 6 stone tablets on the stone wall, the earliest one was carved in the second year of Shaosheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1095). One of them has very high historical value and cultural relic value, and is called an "overlapping monument" in academic circles. A stacked stele means that there were originally inscriptions on the bottom layer of the stele, but new content was later engraved on it. The outer inscriptions and the bottom inscriptions are stacked together to form a double stele. At the entrance of the cave on the east rock wall, there are three large regular script characters "Wang Qiao Cave" carved during the Jiajing period.

Although Wang Qiao Cave is not as majestic as the four major grottoes in China, the stone carvings in the cave are magnificent and mysterious.

Qinglong Bay: "First-class air and first-class water"

Qinglong Bay Ecological Tourism Resort is built based on the Gangwan Bay Reservoir. It is the confluence of Xijin River, Zhongjin River and Dongjin River. The total water area is 32.8 square kilometers, forming a water channel about 30 kilometers long, with clear blue water and thousands of beautiful trees.

The water surface and lake branches are divided to form 38 independent or connected islands, one island and one scenery. The water here is crystal clear, vast and as level as a mirror; the mountains here are intertwined and verdant. No matter what season it comes, it is covered with green waves and mist, like an unmodified Xiaojiabiyu, showing the natural scenery of the "Archids Quy Gorge", and is integrated with the Banqiao Nature Reserve, forming a collection of lakes and An eco-tourism area integrating mountainous landscapes, it was rated as a "National Water Conservancy Scenic Area" by the Scenic Area Review Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources.

Qinglong Bay Scenic Area is divided into three parts.

The southeast is a labyrinth-like lake scenic area of ??50,000 acres of mountains, islands, and water; the middle is a mountainous hilly and cultural landscape scenic area, featuring ancient trees, ancient bridges, ancient tombs, ancient theaters, ancient mansions, and more. There are tea village customs and relics of the New Fourth Army; in the west is the Banqiao Nature Reserve, which is densely populated with ancient trees and has a forest coverage rate of 95%. Plants, hailed by experts as "the green palace of biodiversity" and "the gene pool and the last green frontier in the northeastern part of the central subtropical tropics", provide modern people with a leisure resort.

Boarding the boat on the water feels like swimming in a painting. Looking around, people and scenery merge with each other, and I feel a myriad of emotions. The hills in the water look like hibiscus blooming from the water. On the lake from Lianhua Island to Chibi Bay, there are islands of various shapes. Against the background of water and sky, the ax-cut stone wall has a clear contrast and is majestic. Especially when the sun sets, the stone wall about 20 meters high and 100 meters long turns fiery red under the sunlight, reflecting the lake water. It seemed to be burning, and the fire was soaring into the sky.

Qinglong Bay is so beautiful, and the beauty lies in the company of green mountains. The green hills surrounding the lake are row upon row, verdant, just like natural emerald screens; Qinglong Bay is so beautiful, the beauty lies in the clean and crystal clear water, as if it is filled with a vat of intoxicating wine; Qinglong Bay is so beautiful, the beauty lies in The water is calm, the boat is floating in the water, and the waves are sparkling, like thousands of pieces of green silk trembling in the wind. Looking at the main peak of Jingting Mountain in the north and the mountains of Jiuhua Mountain in the west, you can enjoy both mountains and rivers and various customs.