When traveling in Guangdong, you will make a wonderful discovery. Many cities have a "Lotus Mountain": Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Shanwei, Huidong... There is even a "Lotus Mountain" in neighboring Hong Kong.

"The top of the mountain.

In fact, most of these Lianhua Mountains are part of the Lianhua Mountains and are the "born" children of the Lianhua Mountains.

This mountain range extends from the mouth of the Pearl River to Longyan, Fujian, and stretches for more than 400 kilometers from southwest to northeast. It is the longest mountain range under the Nanling Mountains.

Millions of years ago, affected by the Cretaceous Yanshan Movement, igneous rocks intruded and erupted along two sets of structural lines in the northwest and northeast, forming the Lianhua Mountains, Phoenix Mountains, and Dajian Mountains in the east.

During the Tertiary Himalayan movement, the mountain movements in the Lianhua Mountains in eastern Guangdong were mainly uplift and faulting.

From the end of the Tertiary to the Quaternary, the Lianhua Mountains were affected by neotectonic movements and experienced multiple oscillatory upward movements, resulting in multi-level planations among the mountains and hills.

Today, most of the Lotus Mountains are still rising.

The Lianhua Mountain Range reaches the sea at Ebu, a tapir gate in Haifeng, Shanwei. The road runs along the sea and the mountains here.

Looking northeast from Ebu, Haifeng and Luhe counties are built at the foot of the mountain: from Shanwei to the east mountain range, through Jiexi, Wuhua, Fengshun, Dapu, and into Fujian; to the north of Luhe County, Lianhua Mountain separates out to the southeast from Danan Mountain,

The branches of Sangpu Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain form the Chaoshan Plain and Chaoshan Urban Agglomeration.

If you look southwest of Ebu, you will see another spectacular scene: Lianhua Mountain crosses the city and the sea, crosses Daya Bay, passes through Shenzhen to Hong Kong, plunges into the sea outside the Pearl River Estuary on Lantau Island, and emerges in Zhuhai and Jiangmen to become the Big and Small Hengqin, Sanzao

Island, Shangxiachuan Island.

There is also a northern branch to the west, entering Dongguan and crossing the Pearl River to Panyu, which is the "Lotus Mountain" of these two places.

These remnants of Lotus Mountain have become urban mountainous areas in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao, Zhuhai and Dongguan.

This ancient and ever-growing mountain range, like a pillar supporting the southern sky, can be called a great mountain.

It forms the roof of eastern Guangdong and separates Shanwei and Chaoshan areas in eastern Guangdong from the Pearl River Delta area, while the traffic channels between the mountains closely connect them.

South of Lianhua Mountain, between the mountains and the sea, live the Hoklo and Hakka ethnic groups. In ancient times, they came north along the east coast of Guangdong and the Lianhua Mountains and settled and lived here, forming a unique Hoklo cultural area.

Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Macau, and Zhuhai are located at the southern end of the Lianhua Mountains. Sea roads and ancient roads connect them to Shanwei. The emergence and construction of Hong Kong and Shenzhen, as well as the living customs of the residents here, are inextricably linked to Shanwei.

The Lotus Mountains are the ancestral mountain of Hokki, Hakka culture and southern cities in Guangdong.

In terms of geographical zones, the Lianhua Mountains in eastern Guangdong are the dividing line between the tropical and subtropical climate zones. Shanwei Lufeng City in the middle of the Lianhua Mountains just sits on the Tropic of Cancer.

For Shanwei and Chaoshan, the Lianhua Mountain Range acts as a screen to keep out the cold air and divert the warm wind.

There are more than a dozen peaks of more than 1,000 meters in the Lianhua Mountain Range in Shanwei. Its main peak, Lianhua Peak, is located in Haifeng, Shanwei.

Lianhua Mountain surrounds Hailufeng. It swallows sea fog, conserves water sources, and nurtures Hailufeng's agriculture and fishery. The tea grown on the mountain is sold all over the world.

The foot of Lianhua Mountain is a happy place for the people of Hailufeng, and Lianhua Mountain is a lasting landmark of Hailufeng.

For traditional Chinese people, the food grown in the fields is far more important than the fish produced in the sea.

The Lianhua Mountains and its branches Nanyang Mountain and Danan Mountain form an "M"-shaped structure, blocking and lifting the tropical monsoon from the South China Sea, making Haifeng-Luhe-Jiexi-Puning the largest precipitation center in Guangdong.

The Lianhua Mountains receive the rainwater they receive as groundwater, continuously providing water sources for Shanwei's major rivers in the form of mountain springs and streams.

The Luo River that enters the sea in Lufeng originates from Sanshentu Mountain, the Huangjiang River that enters the sea in Magong originates from the Xikeng Mountains on the east side of Yinping Mountain, the Wukan River that enters the sea in Jieshi originates from Luojingzhang, and the Chishi River that enters the sea in Xiaomo (

Fenghe) originates from Baima Mountain and Mingre River, which comes from Mingre Spring.

They make the southern plain of Lianhua Mountain crisscrossed with river branches and intertwined water networks, creating a scene of abundant resources.

Shanwei is close to the bay, with Pinqing Lagoon in it. The sediment in the river carries nutrients and flows to the Red Bay and Jieshi Bay, attracting fish and forming a developed marine fishery in Shanwei, making Shanwei a "boat, cloud village, business traveler".

"Haiyi" district meeting in "Yuji".

Whether it is a "rich" land or a "haiyi" district, they are inseparable from the Lotus Mountains.

The Lianhua Mountains are rich in biological resources.

This is the transition zone between the tropics and subtropics. It is very rich in water, light, heat, soil and other resources. The plants are distributed vertically as the mountain rises, and they will not wither all year round. The biomass is very large. Some people say that if you insert chopsticks here, you can grow into a forest.

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On Baima Mountain in Haifeng, Lianhua Mountains, there are “national key protected wild plants such as Osmanthus osmanthus, Fujian cypress, Cypress cypress, Palmyra sibirica, Hespermum leucophylla, South China cone, Umbrella japonica, Suihua fir, Konjac yam and other nationally protected wild plants.”

There are also "clouded leopards, pangolins, golden cats and other endangered protected animals" living in the mountains.

The Lianhua Mountains also contain rich tin ore, wolframite, scheelite, copper ore, silver ore, as well as pyrite, galena, sphalerite, molybdenite, bismuthite and other metal mineral deposits, as well as mica

, quartz, kaolin and other non-metallic mineral deposits.

Among them, the Changpu-Yangti Ridge Jishuimen area under Lotus Peak is the most important tin mining area in Guangdong.

Lianhua Mountain is named after its main peak, Lianhua Peak.

Head northwest out of Haifeng city and go around Damianling and Bijiashan for 14 kilometers to reach the southern valley of Lianhua Peak.