The cultural landscape of Jiulian Mountain is highlighted in three temples: Donglian Temple, Xilian Temple and Hou Jing Palace. The dates of creation of these three temples have been impossible to verify. They are places that people in this area spontaneously believe. God and Buddha are neck and neck, Buddhism and Taoism resonate with each other, which is very characteristic of folk culture, commonly known as "Little Western Heaven".
Jiulian Mountain and Jiu Feng are interlaced, and the mountains move, forming three huge canyons: Xiliangou, Guanhou Grand Canyon and Hongyan Grand Canyon. The Three Gorges is surrounded by a triangle, with rocks like axes, peaks like knives, waterfalls like practice, and shallow pools and streams at the bottom of the valley like jasper. Due to the influence of geological structure and rock type distribution, the mountainous landform is complex and diverse, with undulating mountains, deep valleys and dense forests, and steep peaks. Landforms and landscapes are mostly Danxia, karst pillars, karst peaks, peak forests, peak clusters, waterfalls, falling water groups, strange stone paintings and so on. , which is characterized by "steep peaks and deep blue lakes"
After passing through the Guanhou Grand Canyon and the Western Union Canyon, the water flows continuously all year round and the vegetation in the valley is rich. The scenic spot uses the gap of the canyon to build a dam to stop water and store water in stages to form a canyon water belt. Among them, the main landscape of Guanhou Canyon is represented by the "double symmetrical waterfall" at the end of the canyon. A waterfall on the right with a drop of120m. The water source is Shiban River in Huilong Scenic Area, and another waterfall is on the left with a drop of 80 meters, which flows from Xiyagou in Wangmang Ridge Scenic Area. The waterfall on the left looks like a man's unrestrained style, and the waterfall on the right looks like a woman's charm. Two waterfalls form a shallow pool at the bottom of the canyon, quite like a couple holding hands for life. You have me, I have you, and I will never leave. The local folks commonly call it "Dragon and Phoenix Waterfall". Many couples climb mountains together, perform happy love and live a sweet life hand in hand. It is the ideal destination for promising love.
The total length from Longfeng Waterfall to the gate of the scenic spot is eight kilometers, and there are natural landscapes along the way, such as Millennium Lake, Peacock Creek, Qidie Waterfall and Macaque Area. From Millennium Lake to Longfeng Waterfall, the scenic spot uses the valley bottom drop to set up retaining dams and water storage dams of different sizes and heights, forming multi-level cascade waterfalls and numerous Bitan waterfalls, winding around the valley bottom. Tree species with romantic colors and emotional appeal are planted on the slopes on both sides of the valley bottom to form romantic and personalized landscape features, combined with Miao sculpture, Miao sister festival, Liu Sanjie's ballad, dare to go to Zhuangshan Song Festival, Korean springboard swing, flowers and other love songs in intangible cultural heritage. Hand-in-hand dance projects and wedding customs include Erdos wedding customs in Inner Mongolia, Tu wedding customs in Qinghai, Salar wedding customs in Xunhua, Qinghai and Targyik wedding customs in Xinjiang.
From the staircase parking lot to Pu Yuan and water curtain cave, the Western Union Canyon has natural landscapes such as Jiuliantan, Qinglong Waterfall, Tianhu, Tonghui River, Tianyuntan, Luofengchi, Yanshui Waterfall, Ancient Plank Road, Sancoffins and water curtain cave. The ladder, Xilian Temple and other cultural landscapes have certain characteristics. Jiuliantan, Qinglong Waterfall and Pu Yuan are the main representatives. Jiulian Lake is "quiet" and Qinglong Waterfall is "majestic", which has high appreciation value. Xilian Temple resonates with Buddhism and Taoism, and the incense custom is full of folk characteristics. Xilian Canyon is centered on Xilian Temple, and there are national intangible cultural heritage projects and beliefs.
About "food"
Traditional food house: Traditional food houses are mainly based on the traditional handicraft skills related to food in the national, provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage list system, including Zhoucun baked wheat cake, beef baked wheat cake, Shanxi Minjian noodles, Lamian Noodles's cat ears, dragon noodles and so on. These traditional foods and flavored snacks bring together different styles of East, West, North and South, which are not only rich in cultural connotation, but also very popular with consumers. From ancient times to the present, it is enduring. The traditional food house has set up pictures to introduce the historical origin, style, protection and inheritance of traditional food to tourists one by one. Visitors can not only taste traditional food, but also feel the rich historical and cultural value contained in folk traditional cultural projects.
The management mode of the traditional food house is "on-the-spot production and tourists' optional consumption", that is, the project inheritors listed in the three-level directory system make and display in the traditional food house, and tourists choose their favorite diet according to their own interests, tastes and hobbies.
Home catering: Home catering facilities provide home catering attractions mainly to create a warm family concept. With service facilities as the basic unit, popular, life-oriented and humanized catering ingredients are configured and processed in units. According to the requirements of tourists, it can be handled by itself or by the housekeeper of the service facilities of the unit. The purpose is to provide tourists with life-oriented and humanized self-service catering services, so that tourists can fully reflect the convenience, randomness, freedom and warmth of "home".
Sightseeing rest stop: The rest stops of the main scenic spots in the scenic area mainly provide tea, drinks and snacks, which are mainly convenient for tourists to play.
About "being alive"
Family Hotel: The scenic spot is a popular tourist accommodation and reception service based on the original villagers' family hotels in Xilian Valley. Family hotel service personnel are managed by the scenic spot in a unified way, and the accommodation price of family hotels is also set by the scenic spot, thus avoiding the vicious price increase under the decentralized operation state. The scenic spot encourages, guides and helps villagers to improve the service facilities of family hotels and beautify and green the environment of family hotels.
Home accommodation: Jiulianshan tourism is characterized by small service facilities and small service design space as the focus of home life service facilities. Small space for service facilities means that five or six traditional houses with similar styles form a space without centralized service facilities. Scenic spots make full use of hillsides and valleys to build traditional houses with similar characteristics and styles.
About "buying"
A "traditional handicraft workshop" has been built in the scenic spot. The operation mode of traditional handicraft workshop is "front shop and back workshop", which integrates the exhibition, performance and tourism shopping of "traditional art" and "traditional handicraft" projects in the intangible cultural heritage list system. As a commercial transformation form of intangible culture, traditional handicraft covers rich historical value, cultural value and spiritual heritage value, and has many functions such as collection, commemoration, decoration, gift and practicality.
"Traditional Handicraft Workshop" integrates traditional folk artists' manual display and handicraft exhibition, and the scenic spot pays attention to characteristic sales methods and activities. Often organize activities such as "artists signing contracts to sell handicrafts" (referring to folk artists signing contracts to sell handicrafts) and "tourists participating in sales" (referring to tourists making handicrafts by learning from artists themselves). The scenic spot is also equipped with a professional "appraiser of the value and price of handicrafts", so passengers can rest assured to buy items with great collection, commemoration, decoration and gift value.
Four major tourist areas in Jiulian Mountain
Xilianxia scenic spot is from the gate of the scenic spot to the ladder. The relative height of the cliff walls on both sides of the canyon is between 30 meters and 200 meters. Looking at the canyon vertically, the cliffs stand tall, the peaks protrude, and the peaks are high and clear. Looking across the canyon, the cliff was chopped by an axe, and the rock patterns were vertical or cracked, which was wonderful. The main natural landscapes are Tianmenkou, Jiulian Beach, Tianhu Waterfall and Ladder. Jiuliantan green water is "quiet" and Tianhu Waterfall is "like a rainbow". Under Tianhu Waterfall, water pools, steep cliffs and quiet environment. The young girl in the bamboo room caresses the piano to express her feelings. One person dances a sword on the boulder to show his ambition, which is integrated with the pictures of ancient literati, scholars and beautiful women, and forms a humanistic and natural valley recreation space with the theme of "harmony between man and nature".
Xiaoxitian Folk Belief Tourist Area extends from Xilian Jinghou Palace to Donglian Temple, and its main natural landscapes include Xilian Temple, Tianyuntan, Youlong Swimming, Ancient Plank Road, Waterfall Valley, Three Coffins, Lotus Cave, Hou Jing Palace, Lotus Stone Pond, Backstage and Donglian Temple. Xilian Temple resonates with Buddhism and Taoism, and the incense custom is full of folk characteristics. Xilian Temple has formed a target consumer group, and the family hotels around Xilian Temple have considerable reception capacity. The main landscape of Xiaoxitian is radial around Xilian Temple, which plays a connecting role in the whole scenic spot. Xiaoxitian takes Xilian Temple as the center, takes the exhibition, performance and presentation of intangible cultural heritage projects with national characteristics as the theme, takes Xilian Temple and Tianyuntan as the stage and background, and takes history, nationality and culture as the main forms of expression, forming a mountain recreation space with folk beliefs and customs.
Xiaoxitian, a folk belief tourist area, consists of Xilian Temple, Hou Jing Palace and Yu He Taoist Temple of Donghan Temple. It has Taihang Mountain water and cultural landscape at an altitude of 1400 meters. The whole tour area is about six kilometers long, and the landscape is both magnificent in Taihang Mountain and picturesque in the south. There is a thousand-year-old temple in the cultural landscape, which is built on the mountain and has a flourishing incense. Main attractions: Xixin Temple, Xianzhi Gorge, waterfalls, Lotus Cave, Hou Jing Palace, Taihetai and Donglian.
In the scenic spot, there is a cable car at the Longfeng Waterfall at the end of Guanhou Canyon, which has a unrestrained style. Along the cliff corridor of15km, through the top of the hook ladder at the foot of Liuxiucheng Mountain, and through the yellow niche to Donglian, a cliff platform space is formed. The main natural landscapes are Hongyan Gorge, cliff promenade and Taihang scenery. The landscape is characterized by "coldness, preciseness, danger and strangeness", and the typical Taihang Mountain is rough, bold and exaggerated, which is an ideal stage and background for ethnic customs projects in the intangible cultural heritage list. Such as Mongolian Long Tune, Muqam in Xinjiang, Two Poems in the North of Bashan, Blowing Music in the North, Yangko, Dawazi in Uygur, Tianqiao, etc. With unique culture, it sets off spectacular mountains and rivers and forms a platform recreation space with unrestrained customs.
Guanhougou love and romantic tourist area is from the entrance of the scenic spot to Longfeng Waterfall. The whole valley is covered with all kinds of rocks, including red, orange, yellow, green and colorful. Flat, round, pointed and grotesque. The river at the bottom of the valley flows through the stone stream and is crystal clear. The northern end of the canyon is a unique valley with gourd-shaped landform and waterfalls in the east and west, which is called "Longfeng Waterfall" locally. The main natural landscapes are Millennium Lake, Peacock Creek, Qidie Waterfall, Macaque Area and Longfeng Waterfall. With "Longfeng Waterfall" as the representative, one falls to the right 1.20m, and the other falls to the left by 80m. The waterfall on the left looks like a man's unrestrained style, and the waterfall on the right looks like a woman's charm. A shallow pool of water is formed at the bottom of the waterfall, quite like a couple holding hands for life. You have me and I have you, which has high appreciation value. It is an ideal stage and background for the "love theme" in intangible cultural heritage projects, forming a theme featuring "love and marriage" culture with romantic colors, styles and styles.