The Wudang Mountains hides the "China South Summer Summer Villa", and the three generations of forestry people will build a national forest park here

Jimu Journalist Zhou Pingying

Gong Liangjie Ruan Banming, Ji Mu News Correspondent

Intern Liu Yifei

You have to ask me, what is the happiest thing in summer? My answer is: avoiding people from the public, hiding in the green mountains and water, and finding a breeze, it is best to have a little history, making literature and art more content.

In Hubei Gucheng, there is such a long -known but unknown place -Dazhen Mountain.

As early as 1857, a Italian traveler who had been to Laoshan said to the world when he introduced the tourist destinations to the world: "Da Laoshan is a pearl with the north and south of Chengde", and it is "China South Summer Summer Village".

"Natural Air Conditioning" averaged 1,800 tourists a day

Laoshan is located in the central part of Gucheng County, Hubei Province. It belongs to the Wudang Mountains. The Dazhen Mountain Scenic Area is on the golden tourist line of Gulongzhong, Wudang Mountain, and Shennongjia. It is an important node scenic area of ​​the ecological and cultural tourism circle in western Hubei.

From Xiangyang City to Gucheng, wearing dense forests, around Pangshan Road, to the tourist reception center of Laoshan, the mountains and forests tall into the clouds, and the temperature outside the car also dropped from 37 ° C to 24 ° C.

"Gucheng County Chronicle" records that Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty medicine passed by this mountain and found that the mountain was white, and the mountain was called Laoshan (the locals were called "hài" mountains).

"Recently, more than 1,800 tourists will be received every day, and 300 rooms are full." Wu Qinggong, deputy secretary of the Sushan Tourism Resort, said that they invest in more than 60 million research centers. Essence

The hotter weather, the better the business. Wu Qinggong said that the main peak of Laoshan is 1099 meters above sea level, with an average annual temperature of 12 ° C, and the average temperature in summer is only 22 ° C. Usually, it is 5-7 degrees Celsius in the temperature of Gucheng County, which is suitable for summer.

The staff told Jimu Journalists that Shan Shan also had a magical phenomenon. When there are no rain around, it rains almost every morning and evening on the mountain, making the air in the mountains after the rain fresher, just like a "natural air conditioning". Wu Qinggong explained that this is related to the terrain of Laoshan.

Wu Qinggong opened the map of the mobile phone to show the journalists of Jimu. I saw that the mountains were on the verge of the Han River, there were Nanhe in the south, and the north of the north. "At the foot of the mountain, the Nanhe Dam, Miaozou Dam, and Tankou Reservoir were formed. The water vapor gathered from the river and lakes to the mountains, forming rainwater."

Among the area area of ​​6,7731 mu, 93%of the forest coverage and 1413mm annual rainfall make the humidity of Laoshan at 79%, and it looks like natural oxygen.

Eight Kingdoms missionary Shenlin builds more than 70 villas

On the top of the mountain, Jimu Journalists found low houses with green brick gray tiles and arched doors and windows. Each house has a name. Langning Villa, Audrey Villa, Li Zongren Villa ... Wu Qinggong introduced that this "western villa group" has a history of more than 100 years. The builder is Western missionaries.

At the end of the 19th century, a large number of western missionaries poured into Chinese mission and established churches. From 1903 to 1907, after inspecting many mountains around the province, missionaries such as the United States, Britain, and Germany built more than 70 villas in Laoshan, covering an area of ​​more than 400,000 square meters.

Langning Villa is named after the former Canadian senior diplomat. Langning's father was a missionary in the Xiangyang area. In his childhood, he had repeatedly came to Laoshan to avoid the summer with his father. In 1943, when he served as a Canadian diplomat in Chongqing, he brought his family members to the summer. In 1976, he came to China and wanted to visit Laoshan again, but failed to do it for various reasons, and regretted it.

In 1986, Langning's younger daughter re -entered Laoshan and helped her father a wish for herself: half a century ago, she was born here and was baptized in the church here. The two cypress trees planted in front of the door that year was still lush.

Push Li Zongren villa mahogany door, bedroom, study, toilet, and compartment, still maintain the original appearance, the fireplace of the green brick in the living room is quite conspicuous. "The humidity on the mountain is high, and the fireplace is raising to remove moisture in the summer." The staff said.

Li Zongren Villa was built in 1903 by British missionaries and was named because Li Zongren had lived here. In the summer of 1942, when Li Zongren served as the commander of the fifth theater, when the commander of the fifth theater was stationed in the old river, he took his wife and secretary to avoid summer heat in Laoshan. He lived in the villa for more than two months.

"... By the foot of Laoshan, take a slippery pole and go up the mountain. I feel that the breeze is coming for a while, and the summer heat is completely disappeared ... the tree -lined tablets on the mountain, and the spring water is really a world. I just tasted the so -called heat -avoiding joy." Li Zongren was in Later "Memoirs" wrote.

"After 1949, Gucheng County set up Laoshan as a state -owned forest farm. Those leftover western villas were managed as the state -owned assets as the state -owned assets." Wu Qinggong said that there are 18 preserved villas today, all of which are repaired the old and the old are repaired. Like the old, open to the outside world.

In addition to the repaired celebrity villas, in recent years, the Laoshan Tourism Resort has built a Norwegian cabin group, rebuilt the Laoshan Reception Center, Sanxing Hotel, and expanded tourism projects such as Shennongxia drift. The capabilities of the annual reception of 500,000 tourists have achieved a comprehensive tourism income of 40 million yuan.

Three generations of artificial next national forest park

There are more than 800 ancient trees in Laoshan for more than 100 years. There are more than 20 national protected animals. In 1994, he was approved as the National Forest Park. In 2021, the state -owned Paushan Forest Farm in Gucheng County was awarded the title of "Top Ten Forest Farm in the Country" in 2020.

All of this is inseparable from the hard work of several generations of the Paushan Forest Farm. In 1962, it was established in 1962. The orphans distributed by the Gucheng County Welfare Institute, the young people assigned by the town, and the overall relocation of more than 300 villagers relocated by Wenping Village in Nanhe Town became the first batch of builders. In the meantime, there are still a small number of "May 7" cadres and young people who go to the countryside. They came from all directions to Da Lao Mountain, dug the nests and plant trees, raise the forest, and ended in weekly, year after year. According to statistics, since the establishment of the site, three people set their lives in the forest protection post, and 5 people were seriously injured in production and construction.

Old employees said that the deepest memory of that year was to work overtime, battle, and unattractive meal: 28 days of labor and eight hours of forestry work, and two hours at noon and at night; Eat and live on the mountain for two months. The biggest difficulty is to eat enough food. Legend has it that there were subordinates who did not work well at the time: "If you don't do it well, you will transfer you to the forest farm."

A sickle, a telescope, a kettle, a bucket of instant noodles, the journalist met the forest guard Long Dehui returned to the mountain. He returns to the mountains early every day to eliminate the hidden dangers of the forest, and he must fight against illegal theft.

Twenty -two years ago, Long Dehui was actually a professional logator. "The mountains are not connected, the water is not connected, and the water is not turned on.

Later, the forest farm changed its business ideas and developed forest tourism. The 56 employees, including Long Dehui, changed from migrant workers to forest guards and tourist salesmen.

"In the past 10 years, Chinese and young forests have raised 60,000 acres to make up 10,000 acres, cultivating 12,000 acres of rapid forests, forming 20,000 mu of unique mixed forest communities, with nearly 4,000 hundred -year -old trees were protected by listing. "Long Dehui proudly said," It attracted tourists and activated the economy. Our annual income reached 80,000 yuan, and we are very satisfied. "

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From Xiaogan to Gucheng, Wu Qinggong, deputy secretary of the Laoshan Tourism Resort, has been waiting for 26 years in the mountains. The change of the changes in Paoshan can be visible to the naked eye: In addition to Fengshan's forestry, the Paoshan Tourism Resort invested more than 30 million yuan to transform the hardening tourist road 36 kilometers, 16 kilometers in the trail, and forming a traffic network between the attractions. Investment in more than 40 million yuan, high standard construction service facilities, gradually improve the reception level, and promote the rapid integration of the forest tourism industry with the national tourism. Investment in more than 5 million yuan, maintain core attractions such as Western Villas and Daughter Peak, repair 12 red tourist attractions, and develop the Shennongxia drift project.

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