Xiangping Mountain Scenic Area

Xiangping Mountain Scenic Area

Xiangping Mountain Scenic Area is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

Xiangping Mountain Scenic Area is located in Lianhuatang Township, Xichou County, adjacent to Wenshan City, and is known as the “back garden” of Wenshan City. Overall, the scenic area encompasses a wide range of high-quality tourism resources including natural ecology, rare flora and fauna, distinctive ethnic villages, and former residences of notable figures.

The Xiangping Mountain field office is the former residence of the legendary figure Lin Kaiwu, who, after resigning from his official post to live in seclusion in the mountains, spent decades planting trees on Xiangping Mountain, cultivating over 200,000 trees. It was only after this that Xiangping Mountain came to be covered with verdant ancient pines and lush blue firs.

In addition to the forested and mountainous Jiguan Mountain, the Earth Lake under the blue sky and white clouds has gentle ripples. A nearly 3-kilometer lakeside boardwalk has now been built around Earth Lake, which not only allows visitors to take walks but also offers fishing opportunities.

Moreover, the rare Magnolia Valley of Xiangping Mountain is not to be missed. The Magnolia Valley contains 99 genera from 9 families of the Magnoliaceae family, along with over 40 other families of rare vegetation. Every spring, magnolia flowers bloom competitively, filling the air with their subtle fragrance. Being there, one finds it hard to leave.

Xiangping Mountain is the earliest prototype of ecological construction in Xichou County, Wenshan Prefecture, and also the earliest embodiment of the “Xichou Spirit.” Back then, Lin Kaiwu, the commander of the Zhejiang Water and Land Forces of the Qing Dynasty and military advisor to the Guangzhou Military Government during the Xinhai Revolution, led his family to Xiangping Mountain. In a rugged landscape of scattered rocks, they cut down trees to build houses and reclaimed land for farming. After retiring to seclusion, he personally led his family and hired workers to clear the barren hills, planting various types of trees on Xiangping Mountain such as star anise, fir, and pine. Even the later state-owned Xiangping Mountain Forest Farm in Xichou was established on this foundation.

Today, the Xichou County Party Committee and County Government aim to develop Xiangping Mountain into a “Earth Lake Countryside Complex.” Thirty recreational and leisure projects—including a glass water slide, pet park, open-air parent-child water play area, specialty fruit planting and picking gardens, train station, multi-functional sports and rainproof stadium, local produce supermarket, mountain resort hotel cluster, self-drive campsite, and research base—can meet the needs of various audiences.

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