发布日期：2018-07-26 来源: Sichuan tourism information
The world’s heritage Mount Qingcheng-Dujiangyan Irrigation System is situated in the northwest of Chengdu Plain, China’s national key scenic spot, a national 5A tourism area, a national key cultural relic protection site, a national civilization scenic spot and China’s demonstration base for patriotic education. Dujiangyan City has become famous its weir and made achievements for Mount Qingcheng. It is a city of realm full of historical accumulation and abundant cultural connotations, and meanwhile a landscape tourism city with the world’s natural heritages and cultural heritages. It’s only 36km from the capital city Chengdu and 45 minutes drive from Shuangliu International Airport. Dujiangyan City is China’s historical and cultural city, one of China’s first batch of excellent tourism cities and one of China’s top ten charming cities, and besides, it won the Model Prize at the 1st China Human Settlement Award. Meanwhile, it has numerous humanistic and natural landscapes with integrated urban views, convenient transportation, annual average temperature of 15.2℃, beautiful scenery and pleasant climate all year round. Dujiangyan Irrigation System, as the masterpiece of the Chinese nation, is a large-scale water conservancy project constructed under the leadership of LI Bing, the provincial chief of Shu in the Qin State in 256 BC in order to treat the flood of Minjiang River. The form of “water diversion without dam” is adopted, and it’s mainly composed of three parts: the Yuzui Bypass Dike, the Feishayan Floodgate, and the Baopingkou Diversion Passage. It deftly utilized the natural terrain and water flow patterns in the bend of Minjiang River mountain pass, thus effectively solving the problems of irrigation, flood discharge and sediment disposal. It set up a scientific and complete automatic irrigation and drainage system, cultivated the thousand-mile Chengdu Plain and directly promoted the unification of Qin, the first centralization dynasty in China’s history. Over 2,260 years, Dujiangyan has played an increasingly important role and irrigated an area of more than 10 million mu of land. Mount Qingcheng enjoys a great reputation around the world for its “seclusion” and has always been known as “Mount Qingcheng is the most tranquil place of the world”. It’s the place of origin of China’s Taoism and a well-known Taoist mountain of China. It’s characterized by unique geological landform, dense vegetation, pleasant climate, fresh green woods, range upon range of meandering mountains, and interesting ancient Taoist temples. The scenic spot has 36 peaks, 72 caves and 108 views. Earlier in the late third century BC, the Qin Dynasty has conferred Mount Qingcheng as one of the eighteen holy places for national sacrifice. The gushing sunrise over the first peak of Mount Qingcheng, the sunset glow over the Zhaoyang Cave, the Sea of Clouds around Zhangren Peak, the danger of climbing the high ladders, the wonder of couple wells, the dashing waterfall and the green limpid Weijiang River have constituted scrolls of natural sceneries that make people feel relaxed and refreshing. In 143 AD, ZHANG Daoling, the founder of Way of the Celestial Masters, a school of Taoism, came to Mount Qingcheng and created “Wudoumi School”, that is, Way of the Celestial Masters, with the theory of Huang Lao. Mount Qingcheng has been recorded in the history as the place of origin for Taoism, the ancestral mountain and the ancestral temple of the Way of the Celestial Masters. Besides, it has added infinite fun to ecological tourism with its natural beauties including four deep, verdant and dangerous ravines, namely, Feiquan, Shenxian, Hongyan and Wulong, more than 500 natural landscapes such as gorges, plan k roads, deep ponds with water curtains, valleys and waterfalls, grottos and stalagmite, etc., which unfold scrolls of fantastic and fascinating exquisite pictures.
