Songhua Lake, Songhua River, Freezing Mist Island, Red Leaf Valley, Mount Rafa, Mosque and so on.
Jilin is a famous historical and cultural city in Northeast China, the second largest city in Jilin Province, and the only city in the country that overlaps with the name of the province. Jilin is a beautiful city surrounded by mountains and water. The original name of Jilin is "Jilin Wula", which means "city along the river" in Manchu. Surrounded by mountains and turning the Songhua River water, Jilin formed "four sides of the mountains, three sides of the water, a city of mountains, half of the city river" of natural beauty. Jilin freezing fog, snow and ice, Songhua Lake, Wula Ancient City, Beishan Ancient Temple Group and Manchu, Korean folk customs and so on constitute Jilin's unique urban characteristics.
Songhua Lake
24 kilometers southeast of Jilin City, is a large artificial lake formed in 1937 when the Songhua River water was intercepted to build Fengman Reservoir. Songhua Lake covers an area of 500 square kilometers, and the lake is shaped as a narrow string, surrounded by mountains such as Nanlou Mountain and Laoyao Ling, with excellent winds.
The main attractions of Songhua Lake Scenic Area are Golden Turtle Island, Camel Peak, North Tianshan, Five Tiger Island, Crouching Dragon Pool, Phoenix Dance Pond, Stone Dragon Wall, Drunken Rock Slope, etc. The lake is rich in produce, including lake carp, silver crucian carp, ao hua, pine flower whitefish, etc. In addition to fish, the lake area around the abundance of a variety of flora and fauna and Chinese herbs.
Admission: 10 yuan
Transportation: Take a special bus from in front of the Jilin Railway Station, which will take you there in 30-40 minutes.
Songhua River
The Songhua River originates from Changbaishan Tianchi and runs like a green ribbon across the whole city of Jilin. In the country's major river basins, after the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, ranking third, as if the northeastern people's nanny.
The winter climate of the Songhua River is bitterly cold, sometimes down to minus 30 degrees Celsius, the ice period of up to five months. In the Fengman Hydroelectric Power Plant, a section of the river entrained with warm water, and constantly rise up clouds of steam, condensed on the banks of the willow, pine leaves, forming a cluster, a string of crystal like jade ice, ten miles of the long embankment has become a luscious, jade, silver branches of the world. This is the nationally renowned "tree hanging" wonders.
Freeze Island
Misty Pine Island is named for its many and beautiful freezing fog. The terrain here is lower than in downtown Jilin and is surrounded by the river. Hot and cold air meet here, and in winter there are trees hanging almost every day, sometimes for days on end without falling.
Zengtongtun on the island is the best place to appreciate the fog and waterfalls, and it was once said, "Appreciate the freezing fog, go to Zengtong". The trees here are in peculiar shape, and the weeping willows along the river are covered with white crystal frost, and the river wind blows the silver silk flashing, making the scenery both wild and beautiful.
Freezing fog only appears in winter. This is because the formation of freezing fog has its own unique environment and conditions.
Red Leaf Valley
Red Leaf Valley is a straight through the love of the forest farms pulling timber dirt and stone road, along the two mountains between the village from time to time, rice paddies, creeks, mountains and water stretches for more than 100 kilometers of red-leafed forests, birch forests, sometimes sparse and sometimes dense forest areas. Out of jilin city along the highway to jiaohe take shi road into the liberation of tun, after crossing a stone bridge, both into jilin red leaf valley.
Red Leaf Valley Scenic Area of the mountains, water, grass, wood, animals, birds, all maintain a primitive and pristine style, rarely see a trace of artificial traces of the natural valley of the elegant form of the show to the people. Red Leaf Valley beauty, beauty in nature. Set of red leaves, waterfalls, strange trees, rocks in one, with its natural nature, wonderful natural scenery famous Guandong land. The main landscapes include the clear and sweet Wanshou Spring, the rare maple king, and the unique Jade Maiden Bridge.
Ticket: 50 yuan
Rafa Mountain
Located 17 kilometers to the north of Jiaohe City under the jurisdiction of Jilin City, the peak rises up, slightly isosceles triangular, east-west, elevation of 886.12 meters above sea level, covering an area of more than 20,000 hectares, its water area of more than 300 square kilometers. Scenic area in a thousand of "eighty-one peaks, seventy-two holes", the waterfalls and other staggeringly beautiful seventy places, a set of secluded, strange, beautiful, dangerous in a body.
Lafa Mountain is an ancient Taoist training place, winding paths through the secluded. There are dozens of species of birds thriving in the forest. There are numerous caves, strange rocks and odd trees in the mountain. Through the heart of the cave looks like a natural auditorium, about 3 meters high, 13 meters wide, about 50 meters long, can accommodate more than a thousand people, east, south and west of the cave can be viewed respectively sunrise, sunset and the sea of clouds of the three major wonders. There are also nearly 100 natural caves such as Taihe Cave, Chaoyang Cave, Pagoda Cave, Thousand Buddha Cave and Guanyin Cave. Beyond the strange caves, there are many strange rocks. The Golden Toad Stone, Camel Stone, Orangutan Stone, Double Frogs Viewing the Sun Stone, Old Bear Viewing the Sky Stone, and other strange stones are scattered among the peaks and canyons.
Ticket: 15 yuan
Mosque
One of the ancient mosques in Jilin Province was built in the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1760). Initially, there are 3 straw houses, Qianlong forty years (1775), by the parishioners to collect funds, remodeled into a brick and wood structure of the hall 3, covered with a brief time. In the 17th year of the Daoguang period (1837), the hall was expanded to 6 rooms. Guangxu twenty-four years (1898), the godfather Ma BaoLin and the village elder advocate, lead the crowd to rebuild the hall 13, water purification hall 5. 1922 renewed the construction of the lecture hall 5, 5 guest rooms, the godfather room, etc. 3. 1929, but also in the west side of the temple after the building of the other women's temple. The temple hides the "Huaiqing Shouzhen" and other plaques and "holy decree monument". The temple for the largest number of Islamic worship in Jilin City, learning the scriptures of the temple.