-Wind, scenery and words-
Changbai Mountain, Hainan Island
The Spiritual Home of Northeastern People
Most mountains in the northeast have a particularly grounded name, such as:
Hawk mouth, big bald head, old bald head, chimney, three hats ... with northeast accent and sense of humor.
But there is a mountain whose painting style has changed, and it is as independent as the world in the northeast. She is the "northeast roof";
Changbai Mountain
From a distance, Changbai Mountain in winter is covered in silver.
In Shan Hai Jing, she is called "the mountain without salt", which is like white salt and salty without salt. Wei and Jin Dynasties were called "Mount Tai" and Sui and Tang Dynasties were called "Mount Tai". She is the sacred mountain of all ethnic groups in Northeast China and the birthplace of Manchu mythology. She is also the gatekeeper of Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling's "Ten-year Covenant" in Tomb Raider Notes.
Changbai Mountain is covered with snow all year round, and it is shrouded in mist. Like an elder in white, it is always solemn and heavy. Today, the name of Changbai Mountain has been given a romantic explanation: to stay together for a long time and grow old together.
Between Changbai Mountain, waterfalls and waterfalls are like a wisp of white practice. Photography/Wen Jialin
However, Changbai Mountain in the long history is not only "white". As a volcano, when it erupted frequently in ancient times, it turned the whole northeast into another color. Now, the traces of the volcano gradually disappear, and she silently overlooks the world in her sleep, raising the land under her feet in various ways.
Snow glaciers cut out rugged hilltops, and flowers are everywhere on the hillside in summer. Photography/Chang Jianru
On the one hand, she "melts ice and fire", combining the two wonders of snow-capped mountains and volcanoes; On the one hand, "building mountains and rivers" and cultivating three rivers make Northeast China a water town in the north; On the one hand, "pregnant creatures" raise precious animals and plants with intact forest ecology; On the one hand, "Wanze Min", where glacier snow water and underground mineral springs nourish countless creatures.
Fishermen in Ji 'an City, south of Changbai Mountain, are casting nets for fishing. Figure/Qiu Huining
"White Mountain and Black Water" has nurtured the fertile soil of Kanto. Changbai Mountain is not only the geographical and cultural origin in the hearts of the northeast people, but also countless fascinating stories around her majestic body, which is enough to define the northeast.
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Melting ice and fire: snow-capped mountains and volcanoes.
The endless forests and snowy plains are all wrapped in silver, which is people's first impression of Changbai Mountain and probably foreigners' first impression of northeast China.
At the foot of Changbai Mountain, there is a deep forest covered with snow. Figure/vision china
Changbai Mountain is high in altitude and latitude, and it is also at the intersection of warm and humid air current in the Sea of Japan and Siberian cold current. It is rainy, snowy and lasts for 9 months. After the long summer in May, most parts of the country changed into summer clothes one after another, but the peak of Changbai Mountain was still covered with snow. The rime landscape that can only be formed under the conditions of low temperature and sufficient water vapor can also be seen everywhere.
In winter in the sky, the snowy Changbai Mountain is extremely sacred, and the ink of nature is generously left blank in this landscape painting.
After winter, the peak of Changbai Mountain is black and white, which is really beautiful. Photography/Yu Wang
However, the "white skirt" with fairy dust is not all of Changbai Mountain, and she still has a burning "heart". As a compound active volcano, smoke billows and magma is everywhere, which is her original appearance. In ancient times, the whole land in Northeast China was burned out, leaving a large area of volcanic geological structure. The last eruption of Changbai Mountain was about 300 years ago, and it has been silent ever since.
The barren rock wall after the volcanic eruption. Photography/Zuo Mingxi
Climbing to the top of Changbai Mountain, the towering and sharp volcanic cone pierced the sky, surrounded by volcanic pebbles and pumice that collapsed after volcanic lava weathering. On the crater wall, gray, white and yellow alternate with each other and look like sawtooth. Magma once flowed on the hillside, and today's deep valleys and gullies are the remains of glacier erosion.
The towering and sharp volcanic cone around Tianchi Lake. Photography/Yu Wang
The "romance of ice and fire" interwoven with volcanoes and snow-capped mountains has shaped the unique scenery of Changbai Mountain today.
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The mountains and rivers of Liaoning, Shuijilin, Xuelongjiang and Northeast China are all blessed by the same giant, that is, Changbai Mountain, which is much bigger than we usually know.
Changbai Mountain Range is the "wall" in the eastern part of Northeast China, and Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve is located at the core. Cartographers/monks
In a narrow sense, Changbai Mountain refers to the main peak and vein of Changbai Mountain. Broadly speaking, Changbai Mountain starts from Wanda Mountain on the Wusuli River in the north and reaches Laotieshan on the Bohai Sea in the south, which is the whole Changbai Mountain system stretching over 1.300 kilometers.
Along the Songhua River, endless flat farmland. Photography/Chang Jianru
This huge mountain system lies in the east of northeast China. Together with Daxing 'anling in the west and Xiaoxing 'anling in the north, it forms a horseshoe-shaped wall in the northeast and breeds many rivers in the northeast. Tumen River and Yalu River run out here and become the "moat" in the northeast. Songhua River also connects 80% of the lakes in Jilin Province in series, especially when the northwest of Jilin Province meets Nenjiang River, many tributaries converge centripetally, which makes this area spread all over swamps and become one of the areas with the highest lake density in China, forming a veritable "Northeast Water Town".
There are many bubbles in Jilin water town. Cartographers/monks
In addition to rivers, volcanic movements have also formed many volcanic lakes. Tianchi Lake is the most spectacular scenery left by the eruption of Changbai Mountain volcano.
Snow scene of Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain.
Along the steep slope road with nine twists and eighteen bends, when you get to the top of the mountain, your sight suddenly becomes clear, and "the peak comes out of Pinghu". At first glance, it is a Pinghu. Tianchi Lake is the largest crater lake in China and the deepest lake in China. Although the area of Taihu Lake is less than 200%, its deepest part is 373 meters, and it has accumulated 2 billion cubic meters of fresh water, equivalent to half of Taihu Lake. Sixteen peaks around it raise Tianchi to an altitude of 2 180 meters.
You can see the edge of Tianchi at a glance, but there is no end in sight. Photography /8 10 and my story, picture/picture worm creativity
Overlooking the wall of Changbai Mountain, the narrow sense of Changbai Mountain is at the core, like a towering beacon tower. She regulates the ecological climate in Northeast China with a rich and complete primitive forest form.
In summer, this "beacon tower" shed its white clothes, and abundant rain and snow made the short summer in Changbai Mountain particularly wonderful. After the ice and snow melt, the vegetation in the mountain is deep and the water is fast. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, different altitudes have different beautiful scenery, which can be described as "one mountain is divided into four seasons, and ten miles are different."
With the increase of altitude, vegetation presents obvious vertical distribution, "one mountain is divided into four seasons, and ten miles is different from the sky". Figure/vision china
In the forest-free areas above 2 100 meters above sea level, the average temperature is not higher than 10 degrees Celsius, but cold does not isolate life. When the ice and snow melt, there are still colorful flowers swaying in the wind. This is a rare mountain tundra landscape, which appears in this "Arctic enclave".
In summer, flowers are everywhere on the mountain tundra near the peak of Changbai Mountain. Figure/vision china
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Pregnant creatures: the forest story of Changbai Mountain
In the eyes of the northeast mountain people, Changbai Mountain is not only a mountain, but also a simple image combination of Tianchi and forest. Changbai Mountain is alive, like a huge living body, pregnant with many life with infinite energy.
Under the silent forest covered with snow, there is a vitality. Photography/Zhang Xiaoping
Closing hillsides and forbidding forests in Qing Dynasty made it one of the few natural areas in ancient China that were strictly protected by the central government. This letter is 2 16. Therefore, Changbai Mountain forest has a rare and uninhabited primitive state, and it has become a paradise for birds and animals.
The diverse ecological environment allows various animals such as water, earth and air to multiply alternately in Changbai Mountain.
In this snowy forest, there are as many as 1588 species of wild animals and 2806 species of wild plants, many of which are basically extinct elsewhere, but thrive in Changbai Mountain.
There are Chinese merganser, as precious as giant pandas. They can only live in streams in unpolluted forest areas. Therefore, they are regarded as an important indicator of environmental index, and they have found the most suitable home in Changbai Mountain.
Changbai Mountain is the home of human beings and all wild animals.
There are nearly extinct wild Siberian tigers here, hiding in the depths of the jungle; There are also "five-browed" chipmunks and sparrowhawks ... living freely in mountains and streams.
Melting snow and rain in summer nourish the lush forest vegetation in low altitude areas. In Changbai Mountain, trees fall like whales, and rotten trees blend into the soil, becoming the cradle of rare plants, such as Ganoderma lucidum, a fungal Chinese medicine, Hericium erinaceus, which looks like the head of a monkey. In Changbai Mountain, mushrooms can be seen everywhere, and there are always many wild hazel mushrooms, Tricholoma matsutake, Tricholoma giganteum, Pleurotus ostreatus and so on.
Old trees can be seen everywhere in Changbai Mountain forest area. Photography/Chen Yan
These mushrooms nourish Changbai Mountain, and also nourish the mountain people who depend on mountains to eat. Every time mushrooms are picked, mushrooms are piled up in the yard and roof of the mountain people's house. If guests come, soak mushrooms and clean up a mushroom stew chicken, which is a must-have delicacy for guests in Northeast China.
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Zewanmin: Ice and snow melt into the source of life.
Snow is the soul of Changbai Mountain.
For ancestors, the snow here is a sacred mountain that can only be seen from a distance; For animals and plants, the snow here is an excellent insulation warehouse in the cold wind. Every summer, the snow in Changbai Mountain melts into water and nourishes everything.
The river keeps flowing under the heavy snow. Figure/vision china
Glacier snow and underground mineral springs in Changbai Mountain also support countless hot springs and cold springs around. The coexistence of cold and heat is the symphony of "ice" and "fire" in Changbai Mountain.
As a volcano, Changbai Mountain uses underground magma to heat groundwater, so many hot springs around Changbai Mountain boil all year round, and the temperature is close to 90 degrees Celsius. The "hot spring egg" cooked in hot springs, with mature yolk and non-solidified egg white, is a famous product in Changbai Mountain.
The melting of snow and ice in Changbai Mountain will go through a long period.
Near the hot springs, there are natural low hot springs with large and stable water output, that is, cold mineral springs, which maintain a low temperature of 7 degrees all year round and are as cold as snow, but they are not frozen all year round. How did this happen?
After 270 days of snow and ice cover, in April and May every year, when the 2-meter-thick snow begins to melt, the melting water of the snow-capped mountains will go through a period of 30-60 years. First of all, it continues to penetrate, filter and migrate underground until it encounters a water-blocking fault or the nearby rock mass is enriched, until the rock gives great pressure, making the spring water gush out of the gap again and get a new life.
Water melted by snow and ice poured down from Changbai Mountain. Photography/Heidelberg graphic design, graphic/graphic creativity
In this process, volcanic pumice, olivine basalt and volcanic ash in forest ecology form natural "filter elements", making the spring water healthy, pure and pollution-free. When snow water flows in the rock stratum, it constantly dissolves mineral elements, so that silicon dioxide and other elements are gradually enriched in the water. Water with high content of metasilicic acid tastes soft and slightly sweet. What is even more rare is that carbon dioxide and water form an endothermic reaction under unique geological conditions, which makes the snow melting water in Changbai Mountain keep cool at 7 degrees Celsius all the year round.
Nongfu Spring has been upgraded in water source, water quality and packaging, and has launched a super new product-Nongfu Spring Changbaixue Natural Snow Mountain Mineral Water.
Longbaixue originated in Lushuihe National Forest Park at the northern foot of Changbai Mountain, and the whole Changbai Mountain virgin forest is its water supply area. Less than 60 kilometers away from Tianchi, a rare metasilicic acid artesian cold mineral spring was born, which brought the taste of soft snowflakes in Changbai Mountain forest, clear, light and slightly sweet.
On the packaging, Chang Baixue adheres to the ecological concept and conveys the awe of nature and respect for life. * * * There are four kinds of personalized packaging: Siberian tiger, chipmunk, Chinese merganser and sparrow hawk. Through their bodies, you can see the original pure mountain spring snow. This is the "long white snow" in the eyes of rare wild animals in Changbai Mountain.
What kind of water source breeds what kind of life in Changbai Mountain. Only the water source under the protection of a good ecological environment and the water source located in a healthy forest ecosystem are viable water.
Between the "white mountains and black waters", countless fresh and agile life breeds, inhabits and grows here. A long snow, pregnant creatures and all the people.