baiyun mountain ---It is the south famous mountain of Guangdong, it is the first , scenic spot of national 4A grade and national key scenic spot of new " eight scene in Guangzhou ". It lies in the Northeast of Guangzhou, is one of the south famous mountains of Guangdong, known as first show of Guangzhou from ancient times. The massif is quite wide, made up by more than 30 mountain peaks, connect for nine highest peaks in Guangdong with the offshoot on the mountain. Area is 20.98 sq. km., the highest peak rubs 382 meters of high elevation of star and mountain range , ridges and peaks overlap, the mountain stream is vertical-horizontal, can bow and look at the whole city while ascending a height , look at the Zhu Jiang River afar. Fall thick and fast rain continuous or late spring season whenever, cloud and mist curl up on among black pigment mountain grassy green, half is all plain , it is the wonder to be luxuriant, the name of White Cloud Mountain is obtained from this.
Qing Dynasty, the ones that are 7.5 kilometers are far from White Cloud Mountain to urban area, now, with city construction and development, White Cloud Mountain has already incorporated to the city naturally, take a broad view of our country and even big city of the world, can be one is full of chain of mountains that natural life is close to like this people in the flourishing downtown area like Guangzhou, very rare. This makes White Cloud Mountain not merely become the good destination of citizen's recreation and body-building, the more important thing is that becomes " big natural oxygen bar " which regulates the urban ecological environment, explained for " city lung " of Guangzhou by U.S.A. .
It has the famous famous scenic spot of Guangzhou since ancient times if White Cloud Mountain is scenic. If " Pu ravine Lian spring ",, " white cloud hope late ", " Jingtai monk return ", list in into ancient " Guangzhou 8 scene ". In the sixties and the eighties, White Cloud Mountain was chosen as one of " eight new scene in Guangzhou " twice with " white soughing of the wind in the pines of cloud " and wonderful scenery of " silk show of mountain of cloud " respectively. It is occasionally in latter stage of Qing Dynasty for Baiyu Monastery, pairs of small stream temple, can benevolence temple, Maitreya temple ,etc. temple and the mountain halls, jewels, all sorts of flowers tomb ,etc. scenic spots and historical siteses not celestial not white not ancient. At every Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month) festival, the people in Guangzhou regard stepping on White Cloud Mountain as the pleasure even more, when the time comes, help the old and guide the young, the lively scene that the stream of people is bustling with activity forms a piece of unique conditions and customs of Guangzhou to draw.
Through the ages, there are many although the scenic spots and historical sites of White Cloud Mountain, repeatly revitalized and abolished few remains, origin through vicissitudes , destroy frequently , get liberation with the past one hundred years particularly, only have memorial archways of " south peak of it " and some monasteries of dilapidated walls left. After liberation, White Cloud Mountain obtains new lives, the government of Guangzhou organizes the masses, it is wide to plant the forest , build 10 reservoirs , open up the highway and link up the north and south, build the north , park on the mountaintop and the mountain villa , one pair of small streams hotel on the mountain , has reappeared in ten thousand wood verdant , vigorous garden view of White Cloud Mountain, the national-level scenic spot where until today to become " the mountain is deep and remote , green , angry and clear in the forest , the scene has been beautiful " and country first batch of " 4A " beauty spot, and ranking new century Guangzhou eight scene the first with " mountain of cloud pile green ". Divide into seven pieces of excursion district of ringing valleys in spring , rubing star and mountain range , the floor of jewel , carrying on one's shoulder or back goose mountain range , three mountain ranges , hillfoot lakes in accordance with the mountain range , flying etc. altogether at the scenic spot.
After new China is established, through the construction of all previous governments of Guangzhou, the scenic spot administration bureau of White Cloud Mountain has been established specially. Through the construction , management and development for many years, White Cloud Mountain has already been turned into the large-scale national-level scenic spot and scenic spot of the travel . Whether White Cloud Mountain scenic spot to have 7 excursion district in all by north, sequentially from the south at present. Lake excursion district in the hillfoot , three mountain ranges excursion district , chirping in the valley excursion district of spring , rubing the mountain range excursion district of stars , jewel floor excursion district , flying in goose's mountain range excursion district and carrying on one's shoulder or back and depending on the excursion district of mountain range , there are the beauty spots of three national bests in the district, separately: The largest garden type garden of the whole country - -A garden of cloud; The largest natural type birdcage of the whole country - -Ring valleys in spring; Biggest theme type one kind of parks specially of sculpture in the whole country - -Sculpture park.
There is abundant natural resources in White Cloud Mountain. White Cloud Mountain is located in the South of our country, belongs to the subtropical climate area, the vegetation kind is quite abundant , there are 876 kinds of various kinds of plants, among them there is rare plant in imminent danger which 5 kinds of countries protect: Goose's palm is seized , the soil manages fragrantly, lowers fragrant yellow wingceltis, oil China fir, big leaf bamboo cypress,etc.. 657 wild plants it in things , a lot of kind has potential economic worth , such as 86 kinds materials seeds, 343 kinds of medical plants, 97 kinds of wild ornamental plant. The green coverage rate of White Cloud Mountain has already been more than 95% at present, the statistics show, there are 2,800 hectares of green coverage in all at present in White Cloud Mountain, can absorb 2800 tons of carbon dioxide every day, lets out 2100 tons of oxygen, the ones that are for nearly 3 million people to breathe normally are used, " city lung " known as Guangzhou (so-called " market lung ", but mean that White Cloud Mountain lies in centre of the city, afforest by a large scale on the mountain, it is the solid state reservoir of a natural conservation storage, is a natural protective screen of resisting the natural calamity, it is air purifier and regulator ). According to surveying and determination, the air quality in White Cloud Mountain has already reached the national grade - one standard, noise quality reaches the national o standard, the water quality in the earth's surface reaches the international regulation too. Some mountain streams water , spring even drinking directly all right.
Very strong culture is precipitated in White Cloud Mountain, can trace back to the ruins of prehistoric culture of the Neolithic Age of the old woman Huang of the north of mountain hole early most; The end Qin high person Zheng fit issue live in seclusion in White Cloud Mountain is it help generation to gather medicinal herbsing , and in White Cloud Mountain " Cheng Xian leaves "; Take the place of Jiangsu people Ge Hong and make pills of immortality in White Cloud Mountain the Jin Dynasty, write the masterpiece of this Taoist school of " embracing son Piao "; Jingtai honorific Buddhist monk come here build temple is White Cloud Mountain most early temple , leave " Jingtai monk return " one scene also at the south roof beam, it is one of eight old scene in Guangzhou. After the Tang and Song Dynasty , have Du examine famous scholar's mountaineering , such as speech , Li QunYu , Su Shi , Han Yu ,etc. recite a poem successively, their poetic prose resides the feeling in the thing , become valuable historical spiritual wealth of south of the Five Ridges. In eight scene of Guangzhou in Ming and Qing dynasty, White Cloud Mountain accounted for its three: " Pu ravine Lian spring,, Jingtai monk return, the white cloud looks late ". The resisting the personages , such as law , the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 ,etc. of revolution in modern times of China has left the footprint here too. In initial stage for socialist construction, the older generation of revolutionary Zhu De , Dong Biwu , Guo Mo-ruo ,etc. have left the epigraph , Premier Chou En-lai , vice-premier Chen Yi ,etc. had praised as the mountain villa hotel of White Cloud Mountain of " fishing platform of the southern part of the country " and carry on the national affairs activity at that time. After reform and opening-up, many leaders of the party and country and foreign friend have all visited and inscribed one's name here, have left many treasured scrolls for the scenic spot of White Cloud Mountain.
With the enlargement day by day of the city size, White Cloud Mountain has already been surrounded by the urban area gradually, totally incorporate to the city, become the good destination where people have a rest at leisure , is attracting more and more visitors to visit, unless the whole year scenic spot 5 million nearly of volume of the flow of passengerses person, last 2- ten thousand person volume of the flow of passengers not average daily,especially for important festivals or holidays (for instance: National Day , May Day , Double Ninth Festival , the Mid-autumn Festival ,etc.) the largest volume of the flow of passengers of the whole mountain is up to 10- 2 ten thousand persons, what deserves to be mentioned is: It receive White Cloud Mountain every year from, nearly of retired old men a million person,last one number on the whole province park this, this is because geography of White Cloud Mountain and environmental advantage come.
