Time has gone through 30 years, it has also experienced three big turnaround, the first ten years to open the mountain split road, touring the mountain to find minerals, water storage dams, factories, turned rich in one fell swoop, become the top 500 in Hubei; the middle ten years of the development of a set of mining, hydropower, wine, tourism, catering and other integration of large-scale enterprise groups, villagers into workers; this ten years of backing on the green mountains and green water, the big tourism industry, buy a car to live in the villa!
The company is a large-scale enterprise group integrating water and electricity, wine, tourism and catering.
So, instead of salivating over the scenery of the mountains, their inspirational history is more tempting.
This decade, I have come three times, in the winter of 2010, riding in a bus, from Xiangyang all the way bumpy 6 hours, until 1 p.m. to Yaozhihe, the result has been fog, what scenery is not with us, only visited the phosphate mining museum on the hasty return. 2015 summer, I long-distance ride to Baokang, once again picked Yaozhihe village for a traverse, in which to leave the way The last month of 2020, I decided to visit Yaozhihe for the third time, knowing beforehand that it was going to snow in the mountains, but I still drove here.
After arriving in Baokang on the first night and having a simple dinner, I planned to drive all night to Maqiao town or Yaozhihe. Because the whole county is mountainous, from Baokang to Yaozhihe village has more than 90 kilometers of county road, and most of them are in the canyon walking, at least to go more than three hours, the night to go can save the day rush time with a look at the scenery. The result is contrary to expectations, just out of the city, it is constantly encountered rumbling big trucks fish through the eyes of the headlights make it difficult to see the passing of the canyon, scared to hurry back to the county town to stay.
The next morning's trip proved to be the right decision.
From Baokang County to Maqiao Town, 65 kilometers, the whole mountain road two lanes, peaks and curves, traffic rolling. All the way to see the China Railway Twelve Bureau's flag in the fluttering, high-speed construction of a fierce battle is in full swing, a tall reinforced concrete columns in the canyon uprooted, an engineering vehicle in the construction site, a thick spectacular viaducts intermittent, skilled craftsmen led by the Iron Warriors, is a canyon site, with their wisdom will be the evil mountain into a smooth road.
Continuous access to large trucks in special sections of the road to change the normal rules of driving on the right, some of the right corner of the section, the large truck body long, you must go to the left to go outside to turn over, which forces the opposite side of the car can only go to the inside of the car, if the driver's reaction is slow, or in the nighttime traffic, very easy to accident, even if the wrong car can barely get by, but also must be shocked out of a cold sweat, fortunately, last night did not! The first thing you need to do is to get out of the car and get out of the car.
The road will pass through a 5A scenic spot Wudaoxia and Hengchong International Ski Resort, this time of the year Wudaoxia should be nothing to see, the ski resort is good, don't want to ski, at least there is a snow scene can be appreciated. We stayed for a while in the inside of the Tianchi, here at a high altitude, three or four months of the year will snow, around the slopes are thick snow everywhere, although the mountains in a depression, but this large area of pure snow, still give people unlimited reverie, not to mention the mountain concave between the exquisite small Hengchong Tianchi, frozen lake, through the turquoise lake, spread throughout the villa-style cabins, the top of the mountain of the power generation of the windmill, give This white world has increased the element of spirituality.
Out of Hengchong, the forecast of light snow has begun to flurry, the more Yaozhi River to go, the more rapid the snow, it is clear that the snow is in the middle of the snow, to reach the village of Yaozhi River, the ground has been snow, the risk of driving is also gathering.
Yaozhihe village is at an average altitude of 1800 meters deep in the mountains, the rainy days will basically snow, mountain road driving dangerous, generally this weather will not have any tourists, like today, the air sprinkled with snowflakes, the visitor center is empty, and even the verification of the reservation of the management staff are not.
The visitor center has two forked roads, one to the left leading to the Yao Di Shen Gorge, a straight line through the pagoda to continue up the mountain, the two lines are actually a big loop, and ultimately at the top of the mountain in the Phosphorus Mining Museum intersection, along any one of the lines can visit most of the attractions of the Yaozhi River, such as from the Yao Di Shen Gorge into the way, all the way to see the descending garden, the health of the valley, the Huanglong Guanyuan, the Phosphorus Mining Museum, the Farming Garden, Old Dragon Palace, Geological Park, Botanical Garden, Dragon Gate Square, and then back to the visitor center, and the opposite is also true.
I went straight up the mountain from the village pagoda, the snow is getting bigger and bigger, to the Dragon Square when the highway on both sides has been white, the surrounding peaks only gray outline, the foot of the mountain rows of neatly arranged houses in the snow is more hazy, the people return to the house, the birds into the cage, the world is silent, only the snowflakes rustling.
Farming Museum near the mountain wall, carved a huge "dragon" character, such as flying in the air. At the foot of the mountain, a large sculpture group is under construction, should be a newly developed attractions, dozens of meters high group of the three emperors statues majestic, eyes have God, the image of realism, in the vast snow in the more dignified dignified, such as a real god through time and space to protect its people.
Along the mountain highway has been upward, has not seen traces of people and cars, a few peaks and turns to the high mountains, although the fear of not out of the mountains, the end is nostalgic for the snow in the mountain village, can not help but put the car parked in the security section, standing on the roadside cement guardrail, and then take a look at a rare Yaozhi River snow scene.
The canyon below the mountain, built on the mountain, neatly arranged on both sides of the highway is the Longmenkou residential neighborhood, at this moment all shrouded in snow, as rare as the snowy countryside, around the mountains, mountains and forests hazy, snow misty, such as the northern scenery; at this moment the world is silent, the canyon is quiet, the village is peaceful, the beauty of the eyes of all like a painting. I finally understand why will Yaoji River three times, originally, it owes me a ink painting.