Some people say that Butterfly Spring is famous because of the movie "Five Golden Flowers", but in fact, as early as 300 years ago, Xu Xiake wrote in his travelogue, "The difference of Nymphalid Spring, I have heard for a long time".
The Butterfly Spring, which Xu Xiake had heard about for a long time, is summarized as having "three greats": the spring, the butterfly and the tree.
First of all, the "spring". Butterfly Spring water is from the rock crevice sand layer soaked out, the water quality is particularly fresh and clean, once out of the surface will converge into a pool, without any pollution. Butterfly Spring run out of spring water, in recent years, and by the park managers are very cherish the accumulation of three pools than a pool of water pools, for people to enjoy, the largest pool of about 10 acres. Butterfly Spring from the past a pool, into the current four pools, which is the most conspicuous landscape in the Butterfly Spring Park.
Secondly, the "butterfly". Butterfly Spring, a wide variety of butterflies, every year in March to May, butterflies as big as a palm, small as small as bees, hanging in bunches on the spring side of the Acacia tree, colorful. The most unprecedented, is April 15, this day is the white people as the butterfly will. Xu Xiake described it in his travelogue: "There are also thousands of real butterflies with hooks and feet, hanging upside down from the tops of the trees and on the surface of the spring, colorful and colorful." The famous poet Guo Moruo, when he visited the Butterfly Spring in Dali in the fall of 1961 carbylamine, wrote the poem "Butterfly Tree at the head of the Butterfly Spring, the butterflies come in thousands, the first and the last of which are connected by several meters, and the inflorescences are suspected to be hanging down from the tree". One said that the butterflies are "hooked feet with whiskers", and the other said that the butterflies are "connected at the head and tail". The two literati did not witness the spectacle of butterflies hanging in bunches under the trees by the spring because of the time sequence, which is closer to the reality of the details, and this depends on the tourists to observe carefully. If you are not lucky enough to miss the Butterfly Festival, you don't have to regret it. The new Butterfly Pavilion south of the Butterfly Spring truly reproduces the ecology of the butterflies at the Butterfly Spring, the varieties of butterflies and the butterfly culture related to butterflies, which provides the tourists who can't be there in person with precious information about the wonders of the Butterfly Spring.
Finally, the "trees". Butterfly Spring Park, there is "the beauty of the Butterfly Spring is green, please take care of rows and trees" environmental placards, this sentence is not false to say that the beauty of the Butterfly Spring, not only thanks to the along the way we see the phoenix-tailed bamboo, Christmas trees, such as the newly planted forests to welcome the guests, as well as springs full of pine forests, forests of Berlin, palm forests, tea forests, rhododendron forests, Bamboo forests, but also more thanks to the Butterfly Spring side of the acacia tree, acid incense tree, yellow yellow and other local endemic aromatic tree species. Butterfly Spring side of this night acacia tree, when the beginning of April flowering season, the daytime petals open as a butterfly, the night and the petals close to spit out a burst of fragrance. The poet praised the butterfly as a "flying flower", and the flowers of this acacia tree are "static butterflies". During the Butterfly Festival, the flowers and butterflies **** dance, it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, is a major spectacle of the Butterfly Spring.
In the hearts of the Bai people, Butterfly Spring is a symbol of love called fidelity spring. Every year, the butterfly will be, the four sides of the Bai young men and women have to go here, "throw a stone to test the depth of the water", with the song to find their intended recipient.