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Wushan County
Posted by act2009 in Three Gorges on June 29th, 2009
Street scene in Wushan County
In the easternmost of Chongqing Municipality, there is the picturesque county with abundant historical heritage called Wushan (巫山县). It got the name from Wu Xian (巫咸), a famous royal doctor to Emperor Yao (尧) in ancient China. Wushan became a county about 2,200 years ago. It is at the center of the beautiful Three Gorges scenery and the Wu Gorge is located here. The rich tourism resources have made the county as one of the key tourist attractions of the Three Gorges area. “If I have experienced the beauty of the Wushan, there will be no other places can catch my attention.” This has always been an appropriate phrase to describe the enchanting beauty of the Wushan Mountain since old time.
The human fossils here are the earliest found in China hitherto. The relics of the “Wushan People” whose were living here about 2 million years ago, and the cultural heritage of from the New Stone Age, which flourished about 5,000 years before present are found. The old plank road built along the cliff in the Qin Dynasty, well-preserved Han tombs and the refined architecture from late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Majestic peaks and ancient pavilions, which some Chinese odes and chants praised as well. Furthermore, natural mineral and agricultural resources are rich too.
Shennong Stream
Posted by act2009 in Three Gorges on June 15th, 2009
The entry of the Shennong Stream scenic area
Shennong Stream (神农溪) originates from Shennong Ridges, flows through Badong County (巴东县) in Hubei Province and links to Yangtze River in the east of Wu Gorge. Shennong is actually a valley stream to which the water is as if a silvery belt embedded among the mountains. The 60-kilometer-long stream is also known the Jade Passage of Yangtze River.
Living along the Shennong Stream is a luxurious dream or desire to many urban people. It is another world, an idyllic and beautiful place. There is no the anxiety and worries of urban life and no distorted values to money, society and life. It is a virgin land with China’s ancient and traditional custom, mysterious and charming local culture, beautiful flowery, purified smile, the open-minded and impassioned folk songs as well as the comfortable lifestyles in the countryside.
The misty morning scene
On the way to Shennong Stream, its charming mountains and greens on both sides will intoxicate you. It is the virgin forests and original mountains without any human affects and reconstructions. It totally belongs to the nature and wild animals. Wherever the human is, the pollution and natural disasters will be there. Hence, Shennong Stream is one most valued place for human to visit quietly and seriously. The steep mountains and the silvery water from the heaven make you forget this earthly world. Shennong Stream is clearer than the table-water that can directly use for human drinking.
Local wedding and funeral ceremonies diversify the local custom. Sitting on the boats free drift and listening carefully to the local pretty guides’ introduction. It is really a dreamland full of smile, sunshine, and comfort. You do not want to return. If you find there are some cottages separately surrounded by many trees on both sides of mountains. Please do not surprise. It means there is a beautiful and unmarried girl in this family and tells you that you will have opportunities to marry this beauty. The folk songs are also as charming as the local girls are. You may like to join in a wedding ceremony or bridegroom-selection performance, you will be probably lucky to be selected by those performers as her bridegroom in the performance, and then you could learn more from it! Perhaps you will be willing to be a real bridegroom here!
Boat ride
If you are the lucky enough you may see some wild animals suddenly revealing in the trees on both sides of stream, even you could hear the ape’s sound far from the mountain. It is said that some visitors in the past have once met wild men somewhere around Shennong Stream. The mysterious hanging coffins on both sides of cliffs may broaden your eyes. It is an enigma so far that what kind of measures the ancient people took to raise these coffins up to those high cliffs.
Wu Gorge
Posted by act2009 in Three Gorges on June 9th, 2009
- Wu Gorge, Yangtze River, China
When the river flows out of Qutang Gorge (瞿塘峡) and passes the broad valley of Daning River (大宁河), it enters the scenic Wu Gorge (巫峡), which extends west to east from the mouth of the Daning River in Wushan County, Chongqing Municipality, to Guandukou in Badong County, Hubei Province.
The 45-kilometer-long Wu Gorge is also known as the Big Gorge locally and is famous for its great deepness and serene beauty. The area is full of weird peaks, strange rocks and high cliffs as well as the long and winding waterway of Yangtze River with dreamingly misty air, all of which make it looks like a naturally painted landscape picture. It is the best scene among the Three Gorges of Yangtze River.
The Wushan’s twelve majestic and seemingly cloud-penetrating peaks erect on the southern and northern banks of Wu Gorge respectively. The white clouds are moving freely above the towering peaks. The shapes of the clouds will change from time to time, but they always have good looking.
- Sunrise in Wu Gorge
In addition to the weird peaks, Wu Gorge also Lu You Ancient Cave, the Platform for Goddess Gave Nine Heavenly Books to Da Yu, the relic site of the Goddess Temple and many others. Due to the deepness and length of the Wu Gorge area, the daily time for sunshine is very short and the moist air in the valley is always difficult to get out, so that fog is very easy to form. However, this adds beauty to the Wu Gorge. When the precious time of sunlight comes, the sunrays shine through the dense fog and white clouds, which will be, as some locals regarded, Buddhist holy halo.
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