The winter in Lushan Mountain is relatively long. According to meteorological data, Lushan has a long winter from November of the lunar calendar to March of the following year. Generally, it starts to snow in mid-November of the lunar calendar, and the snow and ice do not stop until March of the following year. During the winter, which lasts for nearly five months, there is a saying that "there is no spring or summer in the mountains, and February flowers only bloom in April." Just as Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in his poem: "The beauty of April in the human world is gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temples are beginning to bloom. I often regret that I have nowhere to go when I return to spring, and I don't know where to turn."
I have been to Mount Lushan many times, but this is my first time to see the snow scene in Mount Lushan in winter. In the early morning, facing the biting wind and snow, I walked beside the Immortal Cave. Surrounded by snowy scenery and covered in silver, it was really like "Silver Snake Dancing in the Mountain". The waterfall where the Milky Way cascaded yesterday was already "a cliff with hundreds of feet of ice". The upside-down icicles are like silver towers and pavilions, as crystal clear as carved white jade. The auspicious snow swirled and drifted with the mountain wind, and the mountains were completely covered by white and transparent ice and snow. Bursts of cold wind hit, and the temperature plummeted to below -5℃. The flying snow in the sky drifted with the wind, and when it touched the bare branches, it quickly formed spectacular rime and rainy weather such as "jade trees and beautiful branches" and "pear blossoms in full bloom". The whole Lushan Mountain is like a majestic ice palace.
It is said that the fog and rain in Lushan Mountain are caused by the warm and moist air currents from the Pacific and Indian Oceans meeting the cold air above Lushan Mountain, bringing large clouds, fog and precipitation. These clouds and precipitation sprinkled on the branches and mountain peaks, and they condensed, turning the thousands of peaks and valleys of Mount Lu into a silver world for a while, with thousands of trees and bamboos covered in silver, like towering ice towers on Jade Mountain. Cloudy sky.
Some people say that the most beautiful snow scene in Lushan lies in the "Wulao Peak". As the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty said in his poem "Five Old Peaks": "Golden hibiscus is cut out of the blue sky." These "golden hibiscus" peaks are like thousands of bunches of hibiscus flowers standing in the clouds of the sky, smiling at tourists who are hiking on snowy mountains. Therefore, someone looked at the beautiful scenery of the four seasons and summarized it in twelve words: spring is like a dream, summer is like drops, autumn is like drunkenness, and winter is like jade.
Lushan Mountain in winter seems to have melted into the mythical realm of "thousands of cliffs are covered with ice and jade, and the sound of springs can only be heard from the sky." Visiting Lushan in winter is not only unique and interesting, but also a fitness and leisure activity.