When is the best month to visit Dali Butterfly Spring?

Dali Butterfly Spring, the spring water is as clear as a mirror. Every year during the Butterfly Festival, thousands of butterflies fly from all directions and dance all over the sky beside the spring. The butterfly is as big as a palm and as small as a copper coin. Countless butterflies also have hooked legs and whiskers, holding each other head to tail, hanging in a string from the acacia tree to the water. The Butterfly Spring, which Xu Xiake has heard about for a long time, can be summed up in its "three wonders": mountain spring, butterflies, and trees. The Butterfly Festival is held every year on the 15th day of the fourth lunar month. At that time, thousands of butterflies fly from all directions and fly all over the sky by the spring, holding each other head to tail, which is a spectacle.

Mountain spring

The first is "spring". The water of Butterfly Spring is infiltrated from the sand layer in the rock crevices. The water quality is particularly clear. It gathers into a pool as soon as it emerges from the surface without any pollution. The spring water flowing out of Butterfly Spring has been treasured by park managers in recent years and stored in three larger pools for people to watch. The largest pool is about 10 acres.

Butterfly Spring has changed from one pool to four pools. This is the most conspicuous landscape in Butterfly Spring Park.

Butterfly

Next is "Butterfly". There are many kinds of butterflies in Butterfly Spring. From March to May every spring, butterflies can be as big as a palm and as small as bees. They hang in bunches on the albizia trees beside the spring in colorful colors. April 15th is designated as the Butterfly Festival by the Bai people.

Xu Xiake once described this in his travel notes: "There are also thousands of real butterflies, with whiskers and hooked legs, hanging upside down from the top of the tree to the spring surface, colorful and colorful. "

When the famous poet Guo Moruo visited the Butterfly Spring in Dali in the autumn of 1961, he wrote: "There is a butterfly tree at the head of the Butterfly Spring. Thousands of butterflies fly in, and they are connected for several meters from end to end, and inflorescences hang from the tree." of poetry. One said that the butterflies are "connected with whiskers and hooked legs", and the other said that the butterflies are "connected end to end". Due to the difference in time, the two scholars did not witness the spectacle of butterflies hanging in strings under the tree beside the spring. Which one is closer to the details? The reality requires tourists to carefully observe it themselves.

If you missed the Butterfly Festival by chance, don’t regret it. The newly built Butterfly Pavilion south of Butterfly Spring truly reproduces the ecology, varieties and butterfly-related butterfly culture of Butterfly Spring. Visitors who cannot visit the Butterfly Club in person provide valuable information about the wonders of Butterfly Spring.

Trees

Finally, there is "tree". In the Butterfly Spring Park, there is an environmental placard saying "The beauty of Butterfly Spring lies in the greenery, please take care of the flowers and trees." This sentence truly states that the beauty of Butterfly Spring is not only due to the phoenix tails we saw along the way. Bamboo, Christmas trees and other newly planted trees lined the road to welcome visitors, as well as pine forests, cylindrical trees, palm forests, tea forests, rhododendron forests, and moso bamboo forests all over the mountains behind the spring. It also benefits from the acacia trees, sour aroma trees, and pistacia chinensis trees beside the butterfly spring. and other local endemic aromatic tree species.

This Night Albizia tree next to the Butterfly Spring blooms in early April. During the day, its petals open like butterflies, and at night, the petals close up and spit out bursts of fragrant fragrance. The poet vividly praises butterflies as "flying flowers" and the flowers of the acacia tree as "still butterflies". During the Butterfly Festival, flowers and butterflies dance together, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. It is a great spectacle in Butterfly Spring.

Looking at the sea pavilion, you can see from afar: Ji Mountain is flying, and the Surangama Pagoda is vaguely visible on the top of the mountain; the houses and fields of villages such as Digo and Shuanglang at the foot of the mountain are faintly discernible; the Er River is like a mirror; it faces Guan in the north and Guan in the south. Xizhou is filled with smoke and trees; Jiangwei Village in front of you on the right looks like a sharp sword thrust into Erhai Lake. This sea-viewing pavilion is indeed a good place to watch the "sea".

Butterfly Tree There is a vigorous ancient Albizia nocturna tree in the northwest corner of the spring pool. Its branches and leaves are whirling, and its shade covers the sky and the sun. This is the butterfly tree, which spans the spring. Every time in late spring At the beginning of summer, the ancient trees bloom, shaped like colorful butterflies, and exude a fragrance that attracts butterflies. At that time, the butterflies fly in groups, one by one with "hooks and whiskers" hanging from the branches to the spring surface, forming thousands of butterflies. Strings, like colorful ribbons.