Take the K train (7511, 7379, 5097) from Shenyang to Baihe Station, then charter a cab to tour the north and west slopes of the Changbaishan Mountains

Or take a train to Antu first, then charter a cab to tour the north and west slopes of the Changbaishan Mountains

North Slope of the Changbaishan Mountains

The north slopes of the Changbaishan Mountains are located at the northern foot of the Changbai Mountains in the southeastern region of Erdao Baihe Town, Antu County, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Antu County, Erdao Baihe Town, the southeastern region of the northern foot of the Changbaishan Mountains, the territory of the steep terrain, dense forests and numerous rivers. In the area, there are Tianchi, waterfalls, hot springs, small Tianchi. Underground forests, alpine ski resorts, Yuehuahui Valley and other representative landscape of Changbaishan.

Situated in the region

The northern slope of the Changbaishan Mountain is situated in the town of Erdao Baihe, which is named Erdao Baihe Town because it straddles the banks of the Erdao Baihe River, or Erdao or Baihe for short. Erdao Baihe Town is located in the southwestern part of Antu County, the northern slopes of the Changbai Mountain area, 100 kilometers from the county town, 35 kilometers from the Changbai Mountain. The town area is 49.2 kilometers wide from east to west and 64.8 kilometers long from north to south, with an area of 1987.95 square kilometers. The total population is more than 60,000 people, of which ethnic minorities account for about 15%. BMW is the site of Xingzhou City, the central capital of Bohai Kingdom in Tang Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty established the Lingying King Temple in BMW in the 15th year of Dading (1175 AD), and ordered the ministers to hold the festival to prepare the gifts and bring the "sealing of Changbaishan Mountain for the King of Lingying Book of Writings" to go to pay homage to the King; and the area of Hepingyingzi belongs to the Neyin Department of the female jinzhen of the Ming Jianzhou County.

North Slope region was southeast to northwest towards the narrow strip, accounting for about 4.4% of the total area of 43,509 square kilometers of Yanbian State. The average altitude of 800 meters, for the winter cold summer cool temperate continental monsoon climate, suitable for the growth of red pine, birch and other cold-hardy plants, the forest coverage rate of 94%, **** there is a woodland area of 272. 883 hectares, there are more than 120 species of plants, more than 30 kinds of economic tree species; grassland area of 12 .342 hectares, the territory of the east-west width of 49.2 kilometers.

1956 built township, 1959 changed to commune, 1983 reset township, the same year the town. 1997, an area of 1987 square kilometers, population of 44,000, the township government stationed in Erdao Baihe, jurisdiction of the Erdao, Hongfeng, Anbei, Changsheng, Tiebei, Shuitian, head of the Baihe, Changbai, Jinma, Baihegang, milky way mountain 11 administrative villages and by the ordinal number of the name of the Erdao street 4 neighborhood committees , Bai Lin street 16 neighborhood committees, Linhai street 3 neighborhood committees, Nature Reserve Management Bureau 1 neighborhood committee *** 24 neighborhood committees; Baihe Forestry Bureau and its 10 forest farms, the former Changbaishan Nature Reserve Management Bureau and the five stations under its jurisdiction.

Long Geological History

In the hundreds of millions of years of geological history, the Changbaishan area has experienced a sea of change. Initially, it was flooded by seawater and was filled with a vast ocean. Later, due to the rise of the earth's crust, the seawater withdrew and the surface of the earth was re-exposed to the water, and the rocks on the ground suffered from weathering and destruction under the action of external forces such as sunlight, rain and climate change, and finally, Changbaishan Mountain has also experienced volcanic eruptions and sculptures by glaciers, forming the geomorphological landscape today.

At about 30 million years ago, during the Tertiary period, the earth entered a new period of activity, known geologically as the Himalayan orogeny. Over a period of about 25 million years, the Changbaishan region experienced four volcanic eruptions, in which basaltic magma departed from the upper mantle and continued to surge upward along huge fissures in the earth's crust, spewing out of the earth's surface with great energy (geologically known as fissure eruptions). During the period from about 600,000 to 15 million years ago (Middle-Quaternary - Late Pleistocene), the Changbaishan Mountains experienced another period of crustal activity, geologically known as the Changbaishan Period. Four volcanic eruptions occurred during this period, with the eruption mode characterized by a centralized style in which underground magma surged upward along the cylinder-shaped channels formed at the intersection of deep fractures, constituting a volcanic cone geomorphic landscape on the surface.

The first volcanic eruption formed about 600,000 years ago, the ejecta constitute the base plate of the volcanic cone of Changbaishan; the second volcanic eruption in about 400 to 300,000 years ago, the eruption lasted a long time, the rock layer is widely distributed, the thickness of the large; the third volcanic eruption in about 200 to 100,000 years ago, the final completion of the Changbaishan volcanic cone form; the fourth eruption about 80,000 years ago, with a small scale, the fourth eruption of about 20 to 10,000 years ago, the fourth eruption of about 80,000 years ago, the fourth eruption of about 30,000 years ago. The fourth eruption was about 80,000 years ago, mainly small-scale volcanic activities, lava flows covered in some parts of the volcanic cone. At this point, the main peak of Changbaishan was formed. In each of these four eruptions, the volcanic material ejected increased the height of the volcano by more than 200 meters. At the same time, around the main crater, some small parasitic craters were formed. Since then, Changbai Mountain has entered a period of relative stability.

In 11,000 to 15,000 years ago (during the Holocene of the Quaternary Period), the volcano resurrected again, spewing out a large amount of grayish and yellowish pumice with a local thickness of 60 meters. This violent eruption caused the top of the volcanic cone to break down and collapse, forming a funnel-shaped crater. When the intensity of the eruption and the temperature of the lava gradually decreased, the lava in the volcanic channel gradually condensed and blocked the volcanic channel. After the cessation of volcanic action, the caldera to receive atmospheric precipitation and groundwater recharge, and gradually stored water into a lake, the formation of crater lake. This is the famous Changbaishan Tianchi. Around the crater lake of Changbaishan Mountain, a group of peaks stand, of which there are 16 peaks of more than 2500 meters, and the height of other peaks are more than 2300 meters.

The top of the mountain is composed almost entirely of volcanic ash and yellowish pumice erupted around 12,000 years ago. When the main body of Changbaishan Mountain was formed, the area entered a period of intermittent volcanic eruptions, and the crustal movement was relatively stable. According to historical records, there have been three small-scale intermittent activities of the Changbaishan volcano since 1597. The first eruption was on August 26, 1597 (the 25th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty). According to eyewitness accounts, there was "the sound of cannons, look up and see the smoke open sky, as big as a number of cradles of stone, with the smoke folded out, flew over the mountain after nowhere to go". The second eruption was in 1668 (qing kangxi seven years), changbai mountain area under a "rain ash" (i.e. volcanic ash). The third eruption was on April 14, 1702 (41st year of Kangxi). The Changbaishan volcano was dormant. On the mountain, which is more than 2,000 meters above sea level, there are several hot springs constantly overflowing from the ground, which indicates that the underground is still pregnant with great energy. According to recent seismic observations, Changbaishan Mountain crust is relatively stable yet no sign of volcanic eruption.

Spanning mountains

The southern part of the mountain belongs to the Sino-Korean quasi-terraneous plateau, the northern part of the JIHEI Hualixi folded belt. The Mesozoic Yanshan Movement unified the north-south tectonic direction, forming the foundation of the Huaxia-oriented mountains. The Himalayan Movement of the Tertiary Period also uplifted the large-scale flexural fault blocks, accompanied by a large number of basalt ejections. The mountains are mainly composed of granite, basalt, gneiss and schist, and granite is the most widely distributed. Basalt is mainly distributed in the Mudanjiang River basin and around Changbai Mountain.

The Changbai Mountain area is characterized by the distribution of equal mountain ranges and wide intermountain basins and valleys, and the altitude of most of the mountains is 500-1000 meters, only part of which is more than 1,000 meters. 2,000 meters or more are all in the vicinity of the Changbai Mountains, and the highest peak, the Baitou Peak, is 2,749.2 meters, which is one of the high mountains of the eastern part of the Asian continent. In the mountainous areas are mainly distributed in Zhang Guangcai Ridge, Laoyao Ridge, Weihu Ridge and Longgang Mountain Range to the east, the general mountain range are more than 1,000 meters; low hills are the most widely distributed, there are the Wanda Mountains, Jilin Hada Ridge and Dashan Mountain, and so on.

Abundant precipitation

Changbai Mountain is one of the places with the most precipitation in Northeast China, with annual precipitation exceeding 1,000 millimeters in the southern foothills of the mountain; the general annual precipitation is 500-800 millimeters. The water system is mainly longitudinal downstream river, north and northwest of the Songhua River system, there are Songhua River, Mudanjiang River, Muleng River, Wojian River and Flexi River, etc., accounting for more than 40 percent of the total flow, the eastern slope of the Tumen River system, there are Gaya River and Burhartong River, Hailan River and other large tributaries; the southern slope of the Yalu River and the Liao River system, whose tributaries are the Hunjiang River and the Hun River, the Prince River, and so on. The water system is radial.