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Ticket price: 70 yuan/person; Luanchuan residents (with ID card) preferential price 40 yuan/person-time; 80 yuan/person-time during the Peony Flower Festival (April 10 to May 10).
Address: three kilometers west of Luanchuan County, Luoyang City, Henan Province (Figure)
Tel: 0379-66890998
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At the northern foot of Junshan Mountain, 3 kilometers west of Luanchuan, Luoyang, there is a steep butte, which looks like a cock with its head held high. The top of the mountain is like a cockscomb with beautiful scenery. There are naturally formed underground caves in the mountains, which are deep and unpredictable. The mountain is famous for its shape, and the cave is famous for its mountain, so it is a cave in a famous mountain.
Jiguan Cave was discovered in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. The old Luanchuan County annals said: "There is a dragon and snake cave in Jiguan Cave", "Bats weave danger", "Those who have firewood wield knives and hold sticks, and hold candles in groups", "unfathomable, and return in fear." . Jiguan Cave was hidden in the vast mountains, covered with a mysterious mask, refused to visit, and was isolated from the world.
Jiguan Cave is known as "the first cave in the north". In midsummer, Jiguan Mountain is covered with green brocade, and green is everywhere. When we climbed the 3 18 stone steps and stood in the deep and quiet cockscomb cave, we were all sweating. Entering the cave, the cool breeze blowing head-on is refreshing and the summer heat is gone. Being in the colorful, magnificent and magical world of stalactites is already quite chilly.
The peaks and turns in the cave, the winding path is secluded, the landscape layout is uneven, and the stalactites have different images and postures. There are abundant tourist resources in the cave, with scenic spots in the cave 168. In particular, 88 landscapes such as "All Immortals Welcome Guests", "Goldfish Passing the Fairy Weng", "Maids Showing Bath", "Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon", "Dolphin Playing with Beads", "Carp Playing in the Water" and "Eight Immortals Worshipping Buddha" have strange postures and vivid images.
Jiguan Cave is a natural limestone cave, which is called karst landform in geology. According to experts' research, it was formed in the early Pleistocene and the middle Pleistocene, and many landscapes were shaped as early as 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. As early as the Qing dynasty, some people ventured to explore secluded places, but because of the deep caves and dangers, they all returned in fear.
Jiguan Cave, with a total length of 1.800 meters and an ornamental area of 23,000 square meters, consists of eight scenic spots: Yuzhutan, Cai Yi Temple, Dieyan Palace, East Tianhe, Yaochi Palace, Zangxiu Pavilion, Xiaoyao Palace and Shilin. Or like mushrooms after rain, like dense forests, like bamboo curtains, like curtains, the landscape is all vivid and vivid. Huge stone curtains are like a harp. With the percussion of stones, the sound of the harp is crisp and lingering, and the river in the cave where mangoku flows is crystal clear and tinkling, adding endless vitality to the quiet cockscomb cave!
Jiguandong is rich in tourism resources. The scenic spots in the cave 168, especially 88 places such as "All Immortals Welcome Guests", "Golden Turtles Passing the Immortals", "Maids Showing Baths", "Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon", "Dolphin Playing with Beads", "Carp Playing in the Water" and "Eight Immortals Celebrating their Birthdays", have strange postures and vivid images.
The archaeological research of Jiguan Cave is of great value. The cave is densely covered with stone flowers, stone flags, stone waterfalls, stone curtains, stalactites and stalagmites. According to scientific research data, stalagmites were formed 6.5438+0.84 million years ago. Now, through the internal structure, layered structure and sedimentary materials of stalagmites, we can investigate many aspects of information such as paleoclimate, paleoenvironment and paleogeography. There are also stone shields, lotus pots and so on. Their structural causes, characteristics and shapes are rare in the world, and they have extremely high archaeological and scientific research value.
Jiguan Cave has a constant temperature all year round 18 degrees Celsius. In severe winter, the heat wave in the cave blows on the face, which is warm and hot in midsummer. The cave is cold and refreshing, cool and pleasant, so it is called "natural air conditioning".
/kloc-0 was named "provincial scenic spot" by Henan provincial government in 1994, and/kloc-0 was named "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Henan Province" by Provincial Tourism Bureau in 1977. 1998 was awarded "advanced unit of scenic spot management", "civilized service demonstration window" and "advanced unit of scenic spot health in the whole province" by the Construction Department of Henan Province.
The former president of Xinhua News Agency gladly named Jiguan Cave as "the first cave in the north", and Professor Zhu, president of the Geological Society of China Cave Research Association, praised it as "the first cave in the north with magnificent scenery; The unique cause is the authoritative comment of the First Dragon Palace in China.
Jiguan Cave is mainly composed of six halls, including Yuzhutan, Waterfall Rock, Leaning Tower Hall, Butterfly Love Palace, Yaochi Palace and Zangxiu Pavilion, and an underground river-East Tianhe. Stone pillars, stone forests, stone pagodas, stone niches dripping with limewater naturally spread all over the halls and walls during the Qin Dynasty. Against the backdrop of colorful lights, the whole cave is like a finely carved sculpture palace, more like a mysterious fairyland on earth like a crystal dragon palace and a mirage full of treasures in myths and legends.
Entering Yuzhutan, a group of fairies with wide robes and golden hair "blocked" everyone's way. They are all kind-hearted and smiling, as if they are warmly greeting tourists and showing you the way politely. Those lifelike faces suddenly brought everyone into a strange fairy tale world. After entering the Waterfall Rock Scenic Area, the gurgling springs and gurgling streams of underground rivers add vitality and charm to this fairy cave house. The winding promenade in the hall is sometimes as wide as a luxurious art stage, and sometimes it is too narrow for only one person to pass, and it is as steep as a knife, so that everyone can really experience the danger of underground rock climbing. Following the gurgling sound, the peaks turn and the scenery changes. The deeper you go, the quieter the cave is, and the more charming the scenery is: the jade rabbit looks at the moon, the dolphins play with pearls, the eight immortals cross the sea, a kiss for a thousand years, the carp play with water, and the birthday girl holds the peach waterfall, like a curtain like fog; There are thousands of layers in the palace, and there are thousands of curtains; Hanging in the sky, the account is full of brilliance, and Danxia is like fire; The stone tower in the leaning tower hall is exquisite and gorgeous. Even around the main hall and at the top of the wall, there are many caves and many landscapes. Looking carefully, every stalactite seems to be endowed with aura and charm, which makes people think and marvel. The most amazing thing is the stone flower dotted on the top of the wall and formed by calcite crystals, which looks like coral, jade, tree hanging and crystal clear. At this moment, in the face of this great masterpiece of "the hand of God" and listening to the wonderful and moving legends told by the tour guide, no one can help but marvel at the wonderful workmanship of nature.
The underground river is the blood of the cave. Flowing day and night, endless caves and rivers make Jiguan Cave full of vitality and vigor. The power of that drop of water has made today's wonderful scenery in hundreds of millions of years, and it is also expanding the more beautiful and spectacular nature. It is an extraordinary enjoyment to listen to the sound of water in Jiguan Cave. Holding your breath, listening to the underwater sounds is like listening to Gong Qiong's Yue Xian and the sounds of nature, which makes people feel lost.
What people remember most are two landscapes named "One Kiss for a Thousand Years" and "One Kiss for a Thousand Years", which are several meters apart and echo each other from afar. The distance between two opposite stalactites is only two or three centimeters, and the water is still dripping, but according to experts' determination, this "kiss" takes 80 years to connect; Because of the years, another stone of lovers split into two pieces from the middle, and its image is very similar to that of a man and a woman kissing, so it was named "One Kiss for a Thousand Years".
Wandering in the intoxicating artistic maze of Jiguan Cave and in the dreamlike fairyland of Qionglou, the creator made people feel the beauty beyond words, and at the same time seemed to help people interpret a Zen machine and philosophy: those exquisite stalactite sculptures with strange shapes and realistic expressions were presented to the world by the creator with his magical hands for hundreds of millions of years. Although the process of nurturing beauty is lonely and long, it has gone through many vicissitudes, but as soon as it appeared, it broke through the ground and surprised the world. It is not difficult to think that real beauty is like a drop of water, which is obtained from bit by bit and accumulated over time. There is no room for rashness and utilitarianism. True beauty is like phoenix nirvana. Only by baptizing the will in a heavy fire bath can we achieve eternal life-creating material beauty, especially cultivating artistic beauty and spiritual beauty.