Butterfly Spring is located at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan Mountain. The spring water is as clear as a mirror. Every year during the Butterfly Festival, thousands of butterflies come from all directions and fly 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. Colorful and a spectacle.
The legend of Butterfly Spring - a long time ago, Butterfly Spring was called Bottomless Pool. There lived a father and a daughter by the pond. The daughter was called Wen Gu. She was as smart and beautiful as a golden flower. When Wen Gu grew up, she made a lifelong commitment to the hunter Xia Lang. Later, Wengu was kidnapped by the landlord, and Xialang desperately rescued her after returning from hunting. Unexpectedly, officers and soldiers came after them. They were desperate and jumped into the bottomless pool. Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder, and a storm. After the rain passed and the sky cleared, a pair of extremely beautiful large colorful butterflies flew out of the pond, followed by countless small butterflies. That day is April 15th of the lunar calendar. From then on, on this day every year, countless beautiful butterflies will gather here to tell this touching love story. This is the famous "Butterfly Club".
Butterfly Spring is very close to Zhoucheng, which is the largest Bai village in Dali Prefecture with a population of nearly 9,000. It was once the royal garden of the King of Dali. There is an ancient stage in the village, as well as ancient buildings such as Benzhu Temple and Wenchang Palace. It has been turned into a Bai folk custom tourist village.
Butterfly Spring Butterfly Spring is one of the famous tourist attractions. It has beautiful scenery, clear spring water, and a unique wonder (Butterfly Club) that is rare in the world. With the spread of the film "Five Golden Flowers", which reflects the life of the Bai people, the strange landscape of Butterfly Spring has become even more famous at home and abroad. Best time to visit: 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.
Reminder for single tourists: In the hearts of Bai people, Butterfly Spring is a spring symbolizing love and loyalty. Every year during the Butterfly Festival, young Bai men and women from all over the world come here to "throw a stone to test the depth of the water." , find your ideal person through singing. Visitors who come here should try to find their ideal person, don't miss it.
Introduction to attractions:
The Butterfly Spring, which Xu Xiake has heard about for a long time, can be summed up as "three wonders": spring, butterfly and tree.
The first is "spring". The water in 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 in the past to four pools now. This is the most conspicuous landscape in Butterfly Spring Park.
The second 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." The famous poet Guo Moruo said in the autumn of 1961 When I visited the Butterfly Spring in Dali, I wrote a poem: "There is a butterfly tree at the head of the Butterfly Spring. Thousands of butterflies fly in. They are connected from head to tail for several meters, and inflorescences hang from the tree." One said that the butterflies are "connected with whiskers and hooked legs", and the other said that the butterflies are "joined end to end". Due to the difference in time, the two scholars did not see the spectacle of butterflies hanging in strings under the trees by the spring. Which one is closer to the details? The reality requires tourists to carefully observe it themselves. There are not butterflies flying around Butterfly Spring at any time. Except for a few days in April every year, you cannot see this spectacle at other times. If you happen to miss the Butterfly Festival, don’t regret it. The newly built Butterfly Pavilion south of Butterfly Spring truly reproduces the ecology, varieties and butterfly-related culture of butterflies at Butterfly Spring. It provides services for tourists who cannot visit the Butterfly Festival in person. Learn valuable information about the wonders of Butterfly Spring.
The last one is "tree". In the Butterfly Spring Park, there is an environmental placard that reads "The beauty of Butterfly Spring lies in the greenery, please take care of the greenery 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 Butterfly Spring blooms in early April. During the day, its petals open like butterflies, and at night, they close 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.
Wanghai Pavilion, climb the pavilion and see from afar: Ji Mountain is flying, and the Surangama Pagoda is faintly 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 faces 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 at 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.
Special reminder: There are not butterflies flying around Butterfly Spring at any time. Except for a few days in April every year, you cannot see this wonderful scene at other times. It is not recommended to fly at unsuitable times. Going to see the Butterfly Spring is definitely boring.
Since ancient times, many literati have visited here for inspection and wrote many important poems.
Xu Xiake, a famous geographer in the Ming Dynasty, once enthusiastically praised Butterfly Spring in his travel notes. He wrote: "The big tree on the spring will bloom like a butterfly in early April, with lifelike whiskers and wings, and it will bloom like a butterfly." There are thousands of real butterflies, with beards and hooked legs, hanging upside down from the top of the tree to the surface of the spring, and they are all colorful, and visitors can see them all after May." Sha Chen, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, praised in the poem "Shangguan Butterfly Spring": "Thousands of butterflies are blurred in the butterfly tree, their tails are like tassels brushing the green leaves. Who would believe it if you don't come to Butterfly Spring, where the shadows and flags cover the butterflies solemnly."< /p>
Butterfly Spring is located at the foot of Yunong Peak in Diancang Mountain, Dali. It is like a transparent gem set in the green shade, attracting tourists from far and near with its unique wonders.
Take a bus from Xiaguan and drive north along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway for more than 30 kilometers. An antique stone archway will come into view on the left side of the car. The three characters "Butterfly Spring" written on the archway are the ink marks left by Guo Moruo when he visited Dali.
It is about 100 meters from the archway to the Butterfly Spring. The spring pool is two to three feet square and is surrounded by translucent marble railings. The spring water is crystal clear, with strings of silver bubbles slowly gushing out from the sand and stones, gurgling out of the water and causing splashes of water. This spring has the power of turning snow from Cangshan Mountain. Not only is the water quantity stable, but the water quality is also very good.
It is about 100 meters from the archway to the Butterfly Spring. The spring pool is two to three feet square and is surrounded by translucent marble railings. The spring water is crystal clear, with strings of silver bubbles slowly gushing out from the sand and stones, gurgling out of the water and causing splashes of water. This spring has the power of turning snow from Cangshan Mountain. Not only is the water quantity stable, but the water quality is also very good.
Every year during March and April of the lunar calendar, various exotic flowers and plants bloom in full bloom on Yunongfeng Mountain. The Albizia Julibrissin tree by the spring exudes an elegant fragrance, attracting thousands of butterflies. reunion. These butterflies are as big as palms and as small as bees. They dance among the colorful camellias, rhododendrons and other flowers and plants, or play above the heads of tourists in bloom. There are also countless colorful butterflies, hanging upside down from the Albizia Julibrissin tree, with their whiskers and hooked legs forming long strings, hanging down to the water. Under the sun, they are colorful and spectacular. Especially on the fifteenth day of April in the lunar calendar, if the weather is fine, it will be an unprecedented event. Not only are there an amazing number of butterflies, but there are also many varieties, such as swallow tail butterflies, big tile gray butterflies, etc., all of which form a butterfly festival. world.
The legend of Butterfly Spring
On the day of the Butterfly Festival, people come in droves, dressed in red and green, to watch butterflies. Their laughter and laughter make the Butterfly Festival more spring-like. Regarding the origin of the Butterfly Club, there is also a touching mythical story circulating:
Butterfly Spring is also called Bottomless Pool. In ancient times, there was a place called Giethoorn at the foot of Yunnong Peak. There lived a girl named Wengu, who was like a flower and a jade, and was ingenious. Her hard work and beauty make young men dream of her pure love. There is a handsome young Bai hunter named Xia Lang on Yunong Peak. He is not only highly skilled in martial arts, but also kind-hearted. One year, Wengu and Xialang met at a pilgrimage meeting on March 3rd. They fell in love at first sight and became engaged to each other for life. There lived a ferocious and cruel King Yu at the foot of Cangshan Mountain. He learned that Wen Gu was extremely beautiful and made up his mind to make Wen Gu his eighth concubine. So he sent someone to snatch Wen Gu into the palace. After Xia Lang found out, he risked his life and sneaked into the palace to rescue Aunt Wen. When King Yu found out, he immediately led his troops to pursue him. When they ran to the bottomless pool, they were exhausted. The pursuers with swords, guns and torches were already in front of them. In the crisis, they both jumped into the bottomless pool. The next day, the villagers who salvaged Xialang and Wengu did not find their bodies, but saw a pair of colorful, bright and beautiful butterflies flying out of a huge bubble raised from the deep pool. The colorful butterflies were inseparable on the water, dancing and attracting countless butterflies from all directions, playing and hovering over the pool. From then on, people called the bottomless pool Butterfly Spring. Although this is a legend, every time in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, when the mountain flowers are in full bloom, thousands of butterflies of various shapes gather at the spring.
The cause of the formation of Butterfly Spring is related to the environmental conditions in this area. The spring is adjacent to Cangshan Mountain in the west and Erhai Lake in the east. Cangshan Mountain is towering and straight, standing like a screen. The top of the mountain is covered with snow, which is crystal clear after summer. Clouds gather to produce rain, precipitation is abundant, and plants are everywhere. The total area of ??Erhai Lake is about 240 square kilometers, with beautiful scenery, endless flowers and spring branches all year round. Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake not only provide humans with the beautiful scenery of "Silver Cang Jade Erhai", but also constitute a natural environment for butterflies and other insects to breed and grow in large numbers. Butterfly Spring is located in the northeastern plate of the Erhai fault. Under the action of groundwater dissolution, numerous sinkholes and karst caves have been formed in this plate. They are fed by atmospheric precipitation and surface water, forming a karst aquifer. The groundwater in this aquifer flows along the corrosion pipeline. At the contact point with alluvial and flood sediments, it is intercepted by fine-grained loose materials and overflows to the surface to form Butterfly Spring.
The water flow rate of this spring is around 18.77 liters/second. The mineralization of the spring water is less than 0.5 g/L. It is bicarbonate and magnesium type water. It is odorless and tasteless, and the water quality is light and beautiful. The spring is good and the water is beautiful, coupled with the acacia tree beside the spring, butterflies are naturally happy to come. It can be seen from this that the butterfly society was not caused by the death of the lovers, but was determined by the special environmental conditions there.
What is regrettable is that in the past ten years, it has been difficult for people to see beautiful butterfly gatherings. Sometimes, although butterflies gather, the number is small. According to rumors from local elders: Beside the Butterfly Spring, there used to be a zippeng tree with dense leaves, white flowers and a delicate fragrance. The flower branches were wrapped around the tree trunks slanting across the spring surface, and butterflies were connected in clusters along these drooping flower branches. Nowadays, the spores have been removed, the trunks and leaves of the trees on the spring surface have withered, and the surrounding natural environment has been damaged. A large number of pesticides are used in the fields, accidentally injuring many butterflies. The wonder of hanging on the spring surface with beards and hooked legs has been lost for a long time. It seems that only by carefully studying the laws of butterfly growth, strengthening the protection of the natural environment, and striving to maintain ecological balance can the charming butterfly event be restored and prosperous.