The best time to visit Yushan National Forest Park: April to October every year for better scenery
Yushan National Forest Park is located on the bank of the gorgeous Shajiabang and Yangcheng Lake The edge is like a bright green pearl, embedded in the beautiful Jiangnan water town. Its southeastern end extends into Changshu City, a famous historical and cultural city in Jiangsu Province, and its southwest is adjacent to the beautiful Shanghu Lake. The lakes and mountains complement each other beautifully. It is known as "seven streams all lead to the sea, and half of the ten miles of green mountains enter the city". The superior geographical location, beautiful natural scenery and rich cultural landscape make Yushan a famous tourist attraction in the south of the Yangtze River. In 1982, it was listed as one of the important scenic spots in the Taihu Lake Scenic Area, a national key scenic spot. In March 1989, it was approved by the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Forestry as a national forest park.
Yushan National Forest Park is located at the northern edge of the northern subtropical zone, with a mild climate and four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 15°C, the frost-free period is 243 days, and the annual average relative humidity is 80%. You can travel in all seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Yushan National Forest Park has a forest area of ??more than 1,260 hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 96%. It is a forest plant community type that combines natural regeneration and artificial regeneration in the north subtropics. The main tree species are: masson pine, Chinese fir, slash pine, loblolly pine, moso bamboo, chestnut, bayberry, liquidambar, white oak, linen oak, oak oak, oak oak, holly, albizia julibrissin, paper towel, beech, hackberry, and bull nose plug. . Wild rose, sarsaparilla, honeysuckle, wolfberry; herbaceous plants include sea golden sand, blackberry, Ophiopogon japonicus, rhizome, adenophora, Perilla, platycodon; there are also a variety of ferns, mosses, lichens, bamboo fungus, matsutake mushrooms, etc. Lower plants. According to incomplete statistics, there are 309 species of plants in 89 families.
Every spring, peaches and plums bloom here, plums and pears compete for spring, red as flowing clouds and as white as flying snow; in midsummer, the trees are dense, bushes are thick, wild vines are entangled, and moss is low. ; In late autumn, liquidambar and tallow trees are dotted with crimson, like blood or rouge, with red and green contrasting with each other, and colorful; in mid-winter, the mountains are full of pines and cypresses, wrapped in silver, which is particularly enchanting. The four seasons in Yushan are a sea of ??flowers, a paradise of green, and a beautiful wonderland.
The highest peak of Yushan Mountain is 263 meters above sea level, and there are more than 300 large and small faults distributed throughout the mountain. The south part of the mountain is steep and steep, majestic and has the potential of a large mountain. Many stone scenes are also concentrated here, including cliff stone carvings such as "Yanlan Gaokuang" written by Emperor Kangxi. Among them, "Jianmen Strange Stone" and "Fushui Qingyan" are the most famous. Shen Shitian, the founder of the Wumen School of Painting in the Ming Dynasty, once praised this spectacle with a poem: "The clouds on the cliff support the falling rocks, and the wind on the cliffs rushes down the springs." On the top of Jianmen Mountain, a 16-meter-high sword pavilion has been rebuilt, with soaring eaves and extraordinary momentum. In July 1993, with funding from the famous painter Song Wenzhi, a new "Songfeng Pavilion" was built on the west side of Jianmen. Zhu Qizhan, Xie Zhiliu, Chen Peiqiu, Cao Datie, Yan Gongda and other calligraphers and painters wrote inscriptions for this purpose, adding new scenery to Yushan. Now Jiange and Songfeng Pavilion are far apart from each other. From a high altitude, you can see the shadows of lakes and boats, smoke and clouds, pastoral villages, criss-crossing roads, and a panoramic view of the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan. The great painter Qian Song's famous work "Changshu Fields" was conceived here. The northern part of the mountain is gentle, with many caves, streams, springs and waterfalls. The caves include the famous Lianzhu Cave, Laoshi Cave, Xiaoshi Cave, and Shiwu Cave; the streams include Taoyuan Stream, Shiwu Stream, Chuishi Stream, Qinpo Stream, and Polong Stream; and the springs include Jiaowei Spring, Tianlong Spring, and Shunguo Spring. , Dewdrop Spring, Bomen Spring, Jade Crab Spring, etc. Among them, Qinpo Waterfall is the most spectacular. The Qinpo stream is more than 100 meters long and is in the shape of a storey. There are numerous boulders in the stream. After the rain, the water flows rapidly, and the horses are suspended in the air, and thousands of dendrobium beads fly up. Therefore, Ni Ju in the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem: "The Qinpo water flows after the rain." , the force is like a horizontal stroke from the sky, neither wind nor thunder, shaking the trees in the mountains.
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