, is praised as the world's most beautiful canyon. This stream is limpid through the year, with stone peaks standing erect on both banks. In the scenic area of the Golden Whip Stream, visitors can enjoy the dense forest and grotesque-shaped peaks on either of its bank.
Yingbin Crag (Welcoming Crag)
This crag is looked like a person who is smiling to entertain visitors. And the cliffs between this crag just naturally shaped as a opening door. From this scene, visitors feel being entertained and waited by host.
Drunk Lohan (Drunk Arhat}
Across from the Golden Whip Mountain is a red 200 meter tall mountain that is angled at 70 degrees, which slightly resembles a drunk that looks like he should fall but just won’t.
Cutting Into the Mountain to Save Mom This hill formation was created by years upon years of water erosion. After the erosion of the mountain what stood was a mountain that in front was fused up until the top half where it seems it to be split equally in half. It resembles an ax ark in the mountain. This goes along with the legend that a man to save his mom split the mountain in half with an ax. It is a beautiful mountain and is worth a stop and a few pictures.
Wenxing Rock (Literature Star Rock)
There is a rock called Wenxing Rock which means a star in the literature field. Star Rock is a hill formation that is in the stream of Golden Whip Mountain.It’s said that the hill resembles one of China’s great modern literary giants, and a great thinker, Lu Xun (1881-1936), so because of this, it’s called Star Rock, you know because he’s a star.
Double Turtle Creek
If you go half way down the creek you’ll run into a peak that has two stones stacked together on top of it. If you look close enough they look like two turtles, it’s said that they were sent from the eastern part of China to look after the Golden Whip, but with time the water level dropped and the stone that they settled on kept getting higher and higher, until it was to high for them to climb down, and after being stranded thousands of years they turned to stone.
The Scholar and His Books
The scholar and his books is another hill formation that resembles a scholar and his books. Who would of thought. It’s a tall slender hill that looks like a scholar, and if you look closely the valley looks like a bunch of books. If you look close enough it looks as though he could just grab a chunk of the valley sit down on a near down pool and just study.
Purple Grass Pond (Zicaotan)
It is so called because a kind of purple grass was said to always grow on the wall of the pond. Here, the river course abruptly widens, and the waters rushing down from Shadaogou. After about 15m of repeated blocking, no longer have so many ripples and waves, The surface of the pond is as tranquil as a mirror. The pond, with a width of 4m and a depth of about 5m,is the hoted for the national secon-class protective animals--giant salamanders, and once was the production place of the renowned Golden Whip Fish.
Meeting of Thousand Miles
Following a river that passes lakes, and passes other mountains there are two peaks, it is said that these two
peaks represent a husband and his wife that finally met after being away from each other for a long time. The husband is the taller mountain, his arm is around his wife, the mountain next to him, comforting her, the two are said to hold a silent, and true sense of love, and tenderness between them, it looks as though they are holding each other tight and whispering like that of a husband and wife reuniting after being away for so long.
Fish Jumping Pool is a pool cause by the pulling stream. Stream flows from the higher place to the lower reach so that there is a pool made by the
power of the water. During the spawning time, fish will swim to this pool and jump joyfully. It is a pool that is one of the two eyes (two pools) of the area, it’s a hole in the base rock that was formed from a constant flow of water. It then became a common breeding ground for fish, so the pool like its name often has fish jumping about.
Camel Peak
If you go downstream from The Golden Whip Mountain you’ll see three peaks that stand very tall, this is Camel’s Peak. The first mountain is the camels head standing erect, and behind it is his two humps. There is a pavilion in this area that guest can climb up.
On the platform under Boliu Crag in the Golden Whip Stream is the Grave of Zhang Liang, who was the Marquis and the military counselor during the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C- 25 A.D.).The legend goes that he lived as a hermit in Wulingyuan Scenic Spot after he had helped Liubang be the first emperor in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C- 25 A.D.) and he was buried here as well. Now the Grave of Zhang Liang becomes one of the most important culture relics in the Golden Whip Stream.
Water Rapping Around Four Doors
Do to the wild topography of this area, the rivers do not go straight, they twist, and rap around the mountains, in one area four of these corners are referred to as "doors", and because the water raps around them this area is called "Water Rapping Around F
our Corners."
Wild Animals & Rarely Plants Along the Golden Whip Steam
Lobster Flower
Walking in the scenic spot of the Golden Whip Stream,visitors can enjoy singing birds and fragrant flowers in mountains. Please notice those strange-shaped flowers along the stream. They rather resemble lobsters.Right,they are called "Lobster Flower". It is a rare herbaceous plant, which sprouts in spring, blossoms in summer,and bear fruits in autumn and whose leaves fall in winter.
Chinese Dove Flower
The dove tree is a perennial woody flower, which generally blossoms in the end of spring and beginning of summer. The flower is white, but its stigma has slight purplish red, like a dove's head and mouth, and its flower has two long and big bracts, like a pair of wings. The whole shape of the flower is like a flying dove. This is a peculiar kind of trees of China and foreign friends endearingly call it "The Chinese Dove Flower".
Dawn Redwood
It is also one of the national first-class protective plants. The dawn redwood is a very ancient tree. People once thought it had thoroughly disappeared as a result of the assault by the Quaternary Period Glacier. In 1941, the botanist of our country discovered it in Modaogou of Wanxian. Sichuan Province. In 1982,when
Zhangjiajie was developed ,we found large areas of dawn redwoods and other rare plants of over 3,000 species growing here .This is really a huge wealth the great nature has bestowed us.
Golden Whip Rock, well-known far and wide. Jinbianxi is named just because it always runs past Jinbianyan.This rock is 378m high, just resembles a lifted steel whip, directly pointing into the sky, making people watch it with awe. What's more, its stone structure is that of red quartzose sandstone and limestone,which,in the sunshine,illuminates golden lights,and hence the name Golden Whip Rock. It is the highest, steepest and most magnificent stone peak in the scenic area of Zhangjiajie. As people praise: "Everywhere you can see famous mountains and great rivers. Only Golden Whip Rock is the most marvelous of all the marvelous".
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