Because of the lava clogging of the river, the formation of five connected volcanic weir lakes, because of its shape as a bead, so called "Wudalianchi".
The Wudalianchi area has a volcanic cluster with an altitude of 400-600 meters, and is famous for its special structure of volcanic cones, various lava flow patterns, frosty lava tunnels, and cold carbonate mineral springs.
The Wudalianchi Volcanic Complex is located at the northern end of the Songnen Fault Basin, northeast of which is the Xiaoxinganling Fault Uplift Zone. Wudalianchi Volcanic Group is also in the north-west direction of the Wudalianchi - Kolo Volcanic Belt. The strata distributed in the area mainly include Carboniferous kyanite, schist, sandstone of Cretaceous and Tertiary, Quaternary volcanic rocks, and granite of Hualixi and Yanshan periods.
The Wudalianchi Volcanic Group has 14 separate volcanic cones and a series of shield volcanoes. The volcanic cones and shield volcanoes were formed in the Quaternary period, while the most recent eruption, in 1719-1721 AD, occurred at Laoheshan and Fiery Mountain. The lava overflow from this eruption blocked the Shilong River in the region in four places, forming five volcanic weirs and eventually the "Wudalianchi".
The Earth has provided mankind with a beautiful natural environment and rich material resources during its 4.6 billion years of complex evolution. Wudalianchi is the quaternary volcanic activity to mankind left a piece of precious heritage, where the mountain show, water is quiet, spring strange, stone strange, hole is different, is a set of ecological tourism, leisure and vacation, health care treatment, scientific research as one of the high-content, multi-functional, integrated scenic spots, known as inlaid in the Eurasian Continental Bridge on a bright pearl.
It is said that the Wudalianchi volcano in China's Liao and Jin dynasties known as "Uyun and Erdongji volcano", at that time, no one lived here. Accompanied by the eruption of two new phase of the volcano, the formation of volcanic weir lake and the healing effect of the magical mineral water exposure, only to have the nomadic Daur people moved in, and the volcano here is called "Uyuri - Halldog volcano", the pool of water known as the "Ud neighboring pools ". Later, due to the large number of Han Chinese who moved in to cultivate the land, this place was called Wudalianchi by the Han Chinese. It is located in Dedu County, Heilongjiang Province, 413 kilometers away from Harbin City. It is a tourist and health resort in the north. Wudalianchi was named after five bead-like lakes formed when lava flows from a volcanic eruption blocked the course of the White River. This is a group of dormant volcanoes. Around Wudalianchi, there are 14 volcanoes and more than 60 square kilometers of lava terraces. This group of volcanoes, rising from the ground, different forms, forming a unique scenic area, people also call this place "volcano park" or "natural volcano museum".
Wudalianchi has two main features: First, the scenery is peculiar. The lava formed by the volcanic eruption of lava, some like a long dragon, some like an elephant trunk sucking water, some like a waterfall, the image is realistic. There is also a very good-looking "stone tower", about two or three meters high, which is also a volcanic lava layers of stacked and formed. Lava caves, formed by the flow of lava underground, are also of interest to tourists. Here, tourists can pick up one or two pieces of strangely shaped lava as a souvenir. Secondly, the area is rich in mineral springs, with mineral water gushing out in many places. These mineral springs are mostly cold mineral springs with low water temperatures and contain more than a dozen elements that are beneficial to the human body, collectively known as bicarbonate mineral water. This mineral water can be drunk or bathed, and can treat stomach problems, neurasthenia, skin diseases, high blood pressure and other diseases. Now dozens of mineral spring sanatoriums have been built here.
The main sightseeing spots of Wudalianchi are: Wudalianchi, Medicine Spring Mountain Park and Volcano Museum. The five pools of Wudalianchi are interconnected with each other, with a vertical length of 20 kilometers, a pool area of 40 square kilometers, and a depth of more than a hundred meters at its deepest point. The Medicine Spring Mountain, 350 meters above sea level, is the smallest of the 14 volcanic cones, and is known as "holy water" because of the medicinal effects of the spring water. There are various scenic buildings in the park. The Volcano Museum, which was established in 1719-1721, is the newest volcano in China and has well-preserved volcanic geological features. This area is then called the Volcano Museum.
Wudalianchi in addition to the five weir, there are many ancient and recent volcanoes. In the middle and recent formation of the volcano **** 14, of which the old black mountain and fire mountain age is the smallest, but the body is huge, the scenery is particularly good, is the best scenic spot in Wudalianchi. Old Black Mountain mountain towering, lush vegetation, the relative height difference of 166 meters, is the highest of the 14 volcanoes. The east and north sides of the mountain can be reached from the top of the mountain, the top of the mountain has a funnel-shaped crater, 350 meters in diameter, up to 140 meters deep. There are footpaths around the crater, and the view down to the bottom of the crater is daunting. In the northeast corner of the mountain, there is a lava cave, in which lava hangs upside down, with a variety of scenic views.
Fire Mountain is smaller than Old Black Mountain and has very little vegetation. The scorched caldera splits the whole mountain in half, with hideous cracks and strange states, and volcanic bombs of different sizes can be seen everywhere in the mountain slopes.
Laoheishan and Fiery Mountain are surrounded by lava terraces covering a total area of 65 square kilometers. When the lava spewed out along the White River to the south, forming a winding 10-kilometer-long "stone dragon". Stone Dragon scene is rare in the world, from a distance like the sea surging waves, close-up view of the jagged rocks, thousands of forms, vivid and peculiar form, such as bears, such as tigers, such as snakes, such as ropes, such as the giant mango. Peculiar lava culvert, lava cave, there are more peculiar lava stalactites, such as horn cones such as Bo thorns such as knife blades or such as thin plates, such as attached to the four walls of the cave, a spectacle.
Wudalianchi volcanic group is China's youngest volcanic group, volcanic geological remains of the most complete phenomenon, the distribution of the most concentrated, the most complete preservation, the most typical landscape, the distribution of the jet cone for the world is rare, there is a "Museum of Volcanic Geology," said.
Wudalianchi Volcanic potassium-rich alkaline lava, high SiO2 content, it is a typical representative of potassium volcanic rocks, to explore plate activity, magma evolution is of great significance.
Wudalianchi is known as the "hometown of China's mineral water", and the carbonic acid-type mineral water of its southern and northern springs is not only the best of China's mineral water, but also the world's mineral water, which is of great value for both medical treatment and drinking.
Wulianchi volcano with comparable world-famous volcanoes are the United States Hawaii volcano, the Indian Ocean in the Réunion volcano, France's Central Highlands volcano a few East African Rift Valley Uganda within the Toro - Ankor volcano, and so on.
The same is that these world-famous volcano and Wudalianchi magma are base, its volcanic activity are Hawaiian eruption, volcanic eruption after the formation of volcanic landscapes are basically similar.
The difference is that the scale of these volcanoes is larger than the Wudalianchi Volcano, and some of the volcanic landscapes formed by them are more spectacular than the Wudalianchi Volcano. However, the Wudalianchi volcanic landscape is more complete, more concentrated and more typical. For example, in the vicinity of these world-famous volcano, are not formed volcanic weir, and in addition to the French Central Highlands Volcanic Zone, are not found in the mineral springs outcrops, jet cones, jet disk is rare, only in the Indian Ocean in the Réunion Volcanic Zone, the occasional individual small, incomplete development of the shape of the jet cones, jet disk.
In contrast, the Wudalianchi volcano formed by the mountains and rivers reflecting the fire and water compatible volcanic landscape is more distinctive. And tumble lava in the development of complete, well-preserved, multi-colored, thousands of jet cones, in the world's other volcanic areas are unique, can be called the world's wonders.
Wudalianchi has six natural environments that are rare in the world--there is the world's purest natural oxygen bar; there is the world's highest-grade magnetized mineralized charge ionized water with health care effects; there is a set of health care, beauty care, medical care in one of the mineral springs wash therapy, mud therapy sites; there is a natural lava terrace! -Yang thermal energy physiotherapy bed; the most complete and largest volcanic geological full magnetic environment; pure green health food production area without any pollution. The result is the most perfect natural environment physical therapy base in the world.
Wudalianchi has developed seven major sightseeing areas, eight wonders and more than 100 attractions. The seven major sightseeing areas include: the new period of volcanic wonders sightseeing area; the world famous cold mineral spring sightseeing area; volcanic weir lake sightseeing area; ancient volcanic remains sightseeing area; volcanic lava ice and snow cave sightseeing area; ancient volcanic stone fortress science and technology sightseeing area; volcano folk culture sightseeing area. The eight wonders are: the steep and majestic mountain top fire mouth; the magnificent sea of tumbling flowers; the Dragon Gate stone fortress; the blue water of the pool of victory; the lava ice cave of frost flowers like jade; the shape of the jet cone dish; the clouds of the steamy Shilong Wenmo; the picturesque reflection of the mountains.
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There are peculiar volcanic scenery, rich and intact volcanic landforms and healing mineral springs "holy water", is a collection of sightseeing, health rest, scientific investigation of a variety of functions of a comprehensive natural scenic area. The best season for traveling and photography is from June to September every year.
Travel Tips
Accommodation
Wulianchi travelers generally live in the Medicine Spring Mountain Scenic Area, the scenic area of the small town is almost all made up of a large number of sanatoriums. Among them, the "Heilongjiang Province Wudalianchi workers sanatorium" is the highest grade. The sanatorium consists of seven buildings, chicly shaped, adjacent to the medicinal spring lake, and the "four famous springs" at hand. Including "industrial therapy", all the sanatoriums here, the price of accommodation is very cheap, ordinary four beds per day, the price of about 15 yuan per bed. If you want to stay there for a long period of time, you can also stay in a local hometown for only about 5 yuan per person per day, and if you're interested, you can borrow cooking utensils from the landlord to cook your own meals.
Diet
Wudalianchi "mineral spring eggs and ducks" has become a new gourmet food, China's mineral water township of Heilongjiang Wudalianchi City to increase the development and reuse of mineral water resources, mineral water in the promotion of the development of special agriculture to make a great deal of articles, not only planted out of the mineral springs rice, so that the rice contains the nutrients of the mineral water, and a few days ago. The mineral water is applied to the breeding, the development of nutritious "mineral spring eggs duck".
The relevant departments found that all drinking water and eating water fish and shrimp eggs duck, not only duck meat taste good, high quality, and the output of the egg is more "double yolk", pickled yolk is red, extremely rich in nutrition. In order to accelerate the development of new products, Wudalianchi City in last year, the initial up "pasture source planting farm", has been breeding ducks 80,000 eggs, is expected to the end of the year can be developed to 150,000 only. With this year's egg and duck prices rising steadily, "mineral springs eggs and ducks" market sales increased greatly, can increase the pastoral industry output value of 50 million yuan, at the same time led to the development of hatcheries, feed mills, product processing plants and other related industries, the initial formation of the set of production, processing, circulation as one of the mineral springs eggs and ducks production base.
Transportation
Railway: To get to Wudalianchi in Heihe River, you can start from Harbin and go to Beian first; if you start from Qiqihar, you can take the air-conditioned express train to go to Beian, which can be reached in 4 hours and the fare is 24 yuan. After arriving at Beian, you can then change to a car to go to Wudalianchi.
Take Heihe City, which is mainly by road, connecting Heihe, Beian City and nearby counties. Bei'an City is 70 kilometers away and is served by public **** buses and tourist shuttles.