Tiantai Mountain

Chengdu Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area is located in Qionglai, the first city west of Chengdu on the ancient Southern Silk Road. It is about 110 kilometers away from Chengdu city. The main peak, Yuxiao Peak, is 1,812 meters above sea level. It is a world natural heritage of the Sichuan Giant Panda Habitat, a national scenic spot, a national forest park, a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, and one of the eight major firefly viewing sites in the world. Tiantai Mountain was formerly known as Dongmeng Mountain. It is said that it was the place where Dayu offered sacrifices to the sky when he was controlling floods. There is a saying that "Yu Gong Mengshan". In history, the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism shared the mountain. During its heyday, there were more than 100 temples, Taoist temples and official houses on the mountain. The scenic area is a box-shaped syncline mountain. The whole mountain is roughly in the shape of the English letter U, shaped like a "chair" sitting west to east. The mountain body forms three levels of terraces from low to high: Tiantai, Ertiantai and Zhengtiantai, presenting three characteristic scenic spots of "one layer of Tiantai, one layer of heaven, and nine heavens on Tiantai". The scenic area is famous for its "strange mountains, strange rocks, beautiful water, secluded forests and charming clouds". It has "800 rivers, 9000 strange rocks and 2000 peaks", a forest coverage rate of about 95%, and a wide variety of animals and plants. "How high the mountain is, how high the water is", Jinlong River winds down from the highest peak, Yuxiao Peak, and transforms into many waterscapes such as long beaches, cascading streams, waterfalls, and lakes, as well as low mountain sea of ​​clouds, Buddha light and other wonders. It enjoys the reputation of "no water after returning from Jiuzhaigou, no water after returning from Tiantai", and is a mountain-type summer resort featuring high mountain water and night firefly viewing, a natural scenic spot for popularizing biodiversity science, and the first mountain west of Chengdu on the Southern Silk Road.

The scenic area includes Changhong Waterfall, Xiangshuitan Waterfall, Shenfeng Cave, Guanyin Bridge, Daoxie Stone, Yinfeng, Small Mill, Huashilin, Sandaowan, Leiyin Temple, Fir Forest Aerial Plank Road, Hydrangea Sea, Xiushui Three Rhythms, Shibali Vanilla Valley, the Red Army Long March Qionglai Memorial Hall, Sichuan Red Army Long March Digital Exhibition Hall and other attractions.

Recommended one-day tour routes for Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area:

Route 1 (Interesting Landscapes): Visitor Center → (take a bus) → Xiaojiawan Mountain Gate → (walk) → Dengle’an → (take a bus) → Sandaowan → (take a bus) → Zhengtiantai → (walk) → Shibali Xiangcaogou/Xiushui Sanyun → (walk) → Zhengtiantai → (take a bus) → Visitor Center.

Route 2 (Natural Science Education Base): Visitor Center → (take a bus) → Xiaojiawan Mountain Gate (Firefly Microblog Museum, Firefly Research Institute) → (walk) → Dengle'an (Geological Microblog Museum) → (take a bus) → Huashilin, Sandaowan → (take a bus) → Zhengtiantai (Natural Science Education Base) → (walk) → Xiushui Sanyun → (walk) → Zhengtiantai → (take a bus) → Visitor Center.

Route 3 (Fitness Hiking): Visitor Center → (take a bus) → Xiaojiawan Mountain Gate → (walk) → Dengle’an → Tang Dynasty Pilgrimage Road → Huashilin, Sandaowan → Zhengtiantai → Shibali Xiangcaogou/Xiushui Sanyun → Zhengtiantai → (take a bus) → Visitor Center.

Route 4 (firefly themed study): Visitor Center → (take a bus) → Xiaojiawan Mountain Gate (Firefly Weibo Museum, Firefly Research Institute) → (walk) → Xiangshuitan Waterfall (themed study course) → (walk) → Xiaojiawan → (take a bus) → Visitor Center.

Route 5 (Red Tourism): Visitor Center → (take a bus) → Memorial Hall parking lot → (walk) → Suspension Bridge → Sichuan Red Army Long March Digital Exhibition Hall → Red Army Long March Qionglai Memorial Hall → Southern Song Stone Pagoda → Shita District Soviet Government Site → Memorial Hall parking lot → (take a bus) → Visitor Center.