Gypsum Hill is located at the junction of Jinzhong, Jinnan and Shangdang. It is located 35 km southeast of Lingshi County and 185 km north of Taiyuan. It covers an area of 75 square kilometers and has a maximum elevation of 2,532 meters. The vegetation coverage rate is 96% , and China's national parks are classified as national forest parks, Shanxi provincial geopark and provincial geopark. The name Gypsum Mountain Means "Mineral Gypsum" . It refers to the milk that oozes from the stone and condenses into stalactites as the air condenses, and illustrates the reality of thirty-two Guanyin, in which a white gentleman sits, "feel the stone dripping milk, embrace in the real body, " the beautiful legend. Gypsum Mountain is world-famous, since the Han and Tang dynasties, sheng in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Gypsum Hill is famous for lingqin ancient road, the first qin-jin ancient road from Lingshi Renyi village in the West, the Donggudang (present-day Changzhi) basin. As early as the early Han Dynasty, the qin-jin ancient road was an important passage connecting the north and the south of the Jin Dynasty. Han Xin conquered Zhao and Emperor Gaozu of Han conquered the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shigao Mountain was the birthplace of Buddhism. After the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1375) , monks from Mount Wutai came to Gypsum Mountain and saw deep cliffs, verdant peaks and verdant peaks. "It's a fairyland in Penglai, " they said. Then in Gypsum Mountain Jianyu, under the Rock white clothing nunnery was built, from then on, Fojiao Gypsum Mountain. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, in the autumn of the 14th year of Shunzhi (A. D. 1657) , the famous scholar Fu Shan took his son to visit the Gypsum Mountain. Gypsum Mountain Buddhist temple is very unique, all built in the cave, weather-resistant, warm winter and cool summer, cave heaven, beautiful scenery. From a distance, I can only see the forest Mang Cangcang, short-sighted now temple balcony, this unique landscape, only for Gypsum Mountain, known as"cloud sound cave days.". Gypsum Mountain is a famous historical mountain, not only rich in human landscape resources, there are precious natural landscape. The tropical monsoon climate has four distinct seasons and beautiful scenery. Due to high altitude, a mountain can not see the four seasons, when the late spring and early winter, the mountain has been covered with Spring rain and sand, the mountain is still snow-capped, the four seasons in turn full of vegetation, spectacular scenery. As a Lingshi Man, I like the natural oxygen bar in Gypsum Mountain very much. In the most beautiful autumn, you will be confused by its colorful colors, red, yellow, blue, green and purple. In winter, snow-capped peaks and ridges are another sight, and a paradise for photography buffs. Spring is a good place for hiking, mountaineering, mountaineering, full of Dousson's fragrance, sterilization drive mosquitoes, enjoy the spring breeze, Eye Candy; in summer, feel the fresh air, open mouth deep breathing, the air oxygen content is extremely high, the temperature in the forest area is about 10 degrees lower than that outside the mountain. It is a good place for summer vacation. Gypsum Mountain since 2002 development, increased many facilities, small traffic, sightseeing cable cars, downhill landslides, summer can also play raft, young and old. Static can see mountains, dynamic can see rivers, dynamic can climb mountains, wading, static can be dynamic combination. I and my family, friends, classmates, colleagues, in the four seasons of strange Tan plasterwork, each time will have a different feeling and experience. I can't get enough of it. In today's tourism as our ordinary people's daily life, I strongly recommend this "hidden in the unknown" Gypsum Mountain tourist attractions, its beauty is worth our
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