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1. Golden Mile Grand Canyon
National Forest Park
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2. G eographic location:Above Taiziping Village,
Jinsixia Town, Shangnan County, Shangluo
County, Shaanxi Province
Level:AAAAA
Famous scenery:Shi Yanzhai
Climate type:Temperate monsoon climate
Jinsi Grand Canyon National Forest Park, referred to as “Golden Silk
Gorge”, is a national AAAAA-level tourist area, a national-level forest
park, and a national geological park. It is known as the “City of the
Canyon”, “China Qixia” and “Tianxia Qixia”. “The most beautiful
Grand Canyon in China”, the scenic spot is located in Shangnan
County, the southeast gateway of Shaanxi. The plants in the park
meet the north and south plants. There are temperate and warm
temperate deciduous broad-leaved trees, subtropical evergreen and
deciduous broad-leaved trees. The forest coverage rate is 98%. In
August 2009, it was named the National Geological Park by the
Ministry of Land and Resources. It is the first in Shaanxi. Two
national geological parks.
The Jinsixia area is located in the southern slope of the Qinling
Mountains connecting the northern slope of Bashan, and is located in
the middle reaches of the Danjiang River in the Hanjiang River
system in the Yangtze River Basin. The terrain in the territory is ups
and downs, and the valleys are in phase, mainly belonging to low
mountains and hilly landforms.
Location horizon
Jinsi Grand Canyon National Forest Park, National 5A Scenic Area, is
located in the hinterland of Xinkailing in the southeast of the Qinling

3. Mountains. It is more than 200 kilometers away from Xi’an, 60
kilometers away from the county seat and 18 kilometers away from
Jinsixia Town.
Climatic characteristics
Xi’an is located in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain in the Yellow
River Basin. It is bordered by the Qinling Mountains in the south and
the Weihe River in the north. The four seasons are distinct and the
climate is mild. The natural climate belongs to the subtropical semi-
humid monsoon climate to the warm temperate semi-humid climate.
The annual average temperature is 18 °C, the average summer
temperature is 22 °C, the frost-free period is 217 days, the
precipitation is 803 mm, the evaporation is small, the climate is
humid, and the four seasons are distinct. . In addition to the colder
winter, other times are more suitable for tourism.

4. Resource situation
Resource characteristics
The park has beautiful scenery, unique style and picturesque scenery.
It has the characteristics of narrow, long, beautiful, strange,
dangerous and quiet. It integrates natural landscapes such as peaks,
rocks, caves, forests, birds, beasts, springs, lakes and waterfalls. One,
step by step, and thousands of sights. Known as “the wonder of the
canyon, the ecological kingdom.” On July 1, 2002, it became a
provincial forest park. In December 2002, it became a national forest
park.
Resource classification
Natural resources
Forest resources are multicolored. The north-south plant intersection
area includes temperate and warm temperate deciduous broad-leaved
tree species, subtropical evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved tree

5. species. The old trees are towering, the forests are dense, and the
forest coverage rate is 89%. There are more than 300 acres of short-
handled virgin forests around Shiyanzhai. It is the largest and oldest
in the Qinling area, with the highest degree of canopy. Orchid plants
can be seen everywhere, and the low-lying plants such as moss and
ferns in the forest are very rich, forming a unique canyon ecosystem.
There are 1696 kinds of forest plants in the park; more than 30 kinds
of rare plants such as yew, big fruit green tree, fragrant fruit tree,
pepper, orchid, etc. have been confirmed, and the rare plants in the
subtropical zone can be seen as “strangled”.
Cave resource
There is a hole in the mountain cave. There are leading peaks, lion
peaks, candle peaks, horns peaks, Sancai peaks, hump peaks, flagpole
peaks, etc., which are shaped like beasts and objects. Some are like
turtles, some are like rabbits, some are like melons. There are many
different kinds of playing stones in the canyon, such as flying stones,
even heart stones, ladies offering melons, Guishu Shisheng, Saixia
Stone. Nantian Shigu, Xianren Bridge, Xianren Stone, Horseshoe
Stone, and Erxian Stone are all wonderful and vivid. In the different
parts of the mountain, there are more than 20 swords and axe-like
dangerous rock cliffs, such as the splashing mountain, the spiral cliff,
the Luohan Cliff, the Qixing Cliff, the cat ear cliff, the Jiguan Cliff, the
Touching Cliff, etc. The height is above 1000 meters and the slope is

6. between 80-120 degrees. There is a danger that “the cliffs have no
snake and the road, and the tits enter the gorge and do not fly.” There
are more than 20 kinds of caves between the peaks of the cliffs. There
are lotus heart caves, piercing caves, piercing caves, lotus caves,
golden lion caves, caves, Zhaoyang caves and hanging potholes.
Among them, a “calcite” stone stone lion in the Golden Lion Cave
sleeps in a hole, the image is true. The main hole is 50 meters wide
and 30 meters high, with a total area of 10 acres. More than 30
wooden houses have been built in the Qing Dynasty, and the remains
are still there.
Waterscape resources
There are many springs in the Golden Mile National Forest Park. The
spring water with a large flow rate has five springs such as
Heilongjiang, Shuilian Spring and Majiquan, which constitute the
main source of water for the canyon. These springs flow into the
canyon to form 14 waterfalls such as Black Dragon Waterfall, Witch
Falls, Shuangxi Waterfall, Dust Waterfall, Lock Dragon Waterfall,
Link Waterfall and Rainbow Waterfall. They are magnificent and have
different shapes and shapes between the waterfalls. More than 30
Bitan.

7. Shi Yanzhai
Zhang Sanfeng, the true ancestor of the martial arts, has been
obsessed with the red dust since he was a monk. He has to go out to
practice the Tao. He has to give the Tianjian sword to the “Shiyanzhai
Village” in the deep forest. He has built up the shackles and retired in
the mountains to practice. With the deepening of his skill, he realized
that ” The true meaning of the Qianshan practice, the Houshan
monasticism. He found that Shiyanzhai was the land of martial arts,
and Houshan was Wudang. To become a fairy, you must move to
Wudang. Follow the Wudang Mountain in the south and cultivate the
Tao into a fairy. Before Chengxian, he often came to Shiyanzhai to
practice, to help Limin, and to have a temple. Shiyanzhai, north-south
trend, east, west and south are cliffs, only one of the north slopes.
The cottage consists of five major steps. The first step is high cliffs
and the two faces empty. It is the gateway to the mountain road. It is
said that the main gate of Nantianmen is on the second stage and is a
holy place of Taoism. The fifth step is Yuhuangding. There are dozens
of mountains and rivers in the gorge. There are hundreds of
wildflowers here.

8. Mountain resources
Bailongxia
Bailong Gorge, commonly known as Qilixia, North Gorge. The
mountain peak on the left side of the Xiakou is called Fengshan, like a
phoenix spreading its wings; the right mountain is called Monkey
Mountain, and there is a stone monkey on the mountain, and there is
a fairy monkey. On the left side of the hillside, there is also a strange
stone called the Immortal Stone, also known as the Xianren Peak.
Qinglongxia
Qinglong Gorge, commonly known as the East Gorge, is extremely
dangerous. On both sides of the gorge, the cliffs are swayed by the
vines. What is even more peculiar is the precious evergreen trees

9. such as sea paulownia, eucalyptus and hemlock, which are densely
grown on the cliffs on both sides.
Black dragon gorge
Black Dragon Gorge, located at the western end of the Grand Canyon.
Along the west of Shiyanzhai, it is the dangerous and mysterious
Black Dragon Gorge. The whole journey is about 10 kilometers.
Because the canyon is narrow and long, the water flows in the stone
trough, and it is called the Jinlong Gorge. The landscape features of
Jinsi Gorge are mainly: the valley is deep and narrow, the wall is
dangerous, the waterfall is fantastic, the Xitan is even, and the
original is deep.

10. Representative scenic spot
First-line day
At the narrowest point of the Bailong Gorge, the cliffs on both sides,
the dangerous rock towering through the clear crescent moon, came
to the narrowest part of the Bailong Gorge.
There is a path to the ancients. The two sides of the cliffs are full of
pines and cypresses. Walking from the plank road, only one line can
be seen, so it is called “the first line of the sky.”
Ma Shaquan
One of the famous scenery of Bailongxia, the name of Shenquan is one
of the famous scenes of Bailongxia. After the immortal stone, a
hundred meters of a turn of a strange stone, sudden sounds of water,
like applause, you can see a spring water spewing out from the
boulders, the spring clear. This is the famous “Ma Jiaoquan”.
According to legend, there was a Su Niang in the Qin and Han
Dynasties. She was pregnant, hiding her life and killing the Yijun.

11. Through the place, the weather was hot and dry, people were sleepy
and horse-ridden, and the hunger and thirst were difficult to stop. Su
Niangniang was born with a prince, her body was weak, and she was
struggling with hunger and thirst. At this critical juncture, Niangniu
rode the oolong horse to lead the neck and smashed the ground. When
the moment, a white light flashed, and the spring was sprayed out.
The maiden was overjoyed, and the soldiers were sipping, this spring
was cool and sweet, the soldiers After drinking, hunger and thirst, no
pain, no morale. Spring water is endless, cool and pure, look at people
to nostalgia, drink a password, people have an endless aftertaste, so
there is the name of Shenquan. The maiden is on the stone, and the
war is with the king and the war. Later generations will call this
spring a horse-planing spring, and the boulder of the spring side will
be the falling stone, and the first one will be the stone.
Stone tree
Shishengshu is located in Sanhuali, Xiakou. Two trees grow on two
five-ton-sized boulders. One of them is the precious plant, the maple
leaf, which belongs to the key tree species.

12. Lock Dragon Waterfall
Lock Dragon Waterfall, named after the cliffs on both sides of the
waterfall, such as two thick doors, locked the way. We spent a lot of
time finally renting bamboo rafts, and the waterfalls along the
bamboo rafts were close, looking up: the waterfalls flowed down and
were spectacular.
Golden Lion Cave
In the Golden Lion Cave, a “calcite” stone stone lion sleeps in a hole,
and the image is vivid. The main hole is 50 meters wide and 30
meters high, with a total area of 10 acres. More than 30 wooden
houses have been built in the Qing Dynasty, and the remains are still
there.

13. Bailong Lake
Crossing the dark artificial tunnel, I came to Bailong Lake. The eyes
are wide and the green hills are green and green.
Han Moyan
A very spectacular rock is black and inky, so it is Han Moyan.

14. Scenic development
On July 2, 2002, the Provincial Forestry Department officially
approved the establishment of “Jinsixia Forest Park in Shaanxi
Province”. On July 11, 2002, Deputy Director Zhu Julong, in charge of
forest tourism in the Provincial Forestry Department, was invited to
inspect and guide the park in Jinsixia. The tourist resources can be
circled at a radius of 1,000 kilometers and will become Nanjing,
Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Tourist attractions that tourists in
Beijing, Taiyuan, Lanzhou and Wuhan are looking forward to.
In May 2003, more than 10 experts were organized in the Provincial
Forestry Department to conduct a centralized review, and put
forward the idea of adhering to the sustainable development strategy,
protection priority, scientific layout, and rational planning. From the
guiding ideology and principles of park construction, functional area
division, environment Market and passenger flow analysis, scenic line
design, landscape design, protection engineering planning and design,
tourism services and infrastructure, personnel management and
benefit evaluation, etc., comprehensive systematic and scientific
planning analysis and positioning, drawing a blueprint for the
development of Jinsixia . On November 10, 2002, the national debt
project was officially started, and the local migrant workers engaged
in engineering construction were more than 1,000 people every day.
The newly-built anti-corrosion boardwalk is 1,700 meters, the
ecological trail is 1,800 meters, the stone steps are 1,500 meters, 11
small bridges and 9 pavilions.
In May 2003, the official website of the Golden Silk Gorge National
Forest Park was completed, marking the promotion of Jinsixia has
entered the fast lane of commercial science and technology
information.
On July 2, 2003, Jinsi Gorge was approved as a provincial forest park.
In March 2005, it was awarded a 3A-level tourist area by the National
Tourism Administration.

15. In October 2015, it was approved as a national 5A tourist attraction
and a national geological park.
Travel guide
Traffic Guide
Scenic address: Jinsixia Scenic Spot, Jinsixia Town, Shangnan County
Self-driving tour guide self-driving route: From Xi’an Xiangwang
Shangxi (An) Lan (Tian) Expressway, turn to Shaanxi (West)
Shanghai (Shanghai) Expressway, head to Shangluo, and arrive at
Jinsixia exit.
Tickets and opening hours:
92 yuan. A. Free policy: Children’s height is less than 1.2 meters,
military officer’s card is free of charge B. Preferential policy:
Children’s height between 1.2 meters and 1.5 meters, student ID, and
people over 65 years old with the old age certificate to purchase
scenic spots. 07:00-17:00
High season: March to November
Low season: December to March
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