Mingyue Mountain is located in the southwest of downtown Yichun, Jiangxi Province15km, with a tourist area of136km2.
Mingyue Mountain consists of 12 peaks with an altitude of 1000 meters. The main peak, Taiping Mountain, is 1, 736 meters above sea level and belongs to subtropical humid monsoon climate. It has plants such as Taxus chinensis and Manglietia, warm soup and selenium-enriched hot springs, Xingyue Cave, Moon Lake, Yungu Waterfall, Qingyun plank road and other attractions. Mingyue Mountain is a mountain-type scenic spot characterized by strange peaks and dangerous valleys, hot spring waterfalls, rare animals and plants and Zen culture, which integrates eco-sightseeing, leisure vacation, popular science education and religious tourism.
Mingyue Mountain is known as "natural oxygen bar", "natural botanical garden" and "geological museum", and has many laurels such as "world famous hot spring town", national scenic spot, national AAAAA scenic spot, national forest park, national geological park, national natural heritage, national tourist resort and China hot spring hometown.
Mingyue Mountain is also the national demonstration base of hot spring leisure vacation, the national demonstration base of go on road trip, the national demonstration base of sub-health hot spring SPA, the most influential forest park in China and the best tourist and leisure destination in China.
The natural resources of Mingyue Mountain:
1, animal resources
Mingyue Mountain is rich in wildlife resources. There are 32 species of wild animals under national first-class and second-class protection, including yellow-bellied pheasant, white-necked pheasant, clouded leopard, golden cat, civet, pangolin and so on. Birds include Shan Ying, owl, wild bird, bamboo chicken, egret, thrush, turtledove, cuckoo and woodpecker. Amphibians include frogs, Shi Wa and giant salamanders.
2. Plant resources
Mingyue Mountain has various types of forest vegetation, belonging to subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest area in China. By the end of 20 14 years, there are more than 62 families 100 species of plants in Mingyue Mountain, including more than 300 species of trees, which belong to the first and second class national protected tree species 13 species. There are 667 hectares of concentrated contiguous and vibrant Pinus taiwanensis pure forest. Mingyue Mountain is known as the "Natural Botanical Garden". There are not only medicinal materials such as rock ginseng and tremella on the mountain.
There are also flowers and trees named after "Mingyue Mountain", such as camellia, rhododendron and Manglietia, as well as trees such as pine, bamboo, cypress, camphor, fir, ginkgo, silver magpie and Cyclocarya paliurus. Among them, Taxus mairei, which originated 230 million years ago, is rich in paclitaxel, which is a good medicine for treating cancer and a rare plant in China. Manglietia China is a rare plant in the world, with only two plants left, which were first discovered in Mingyue Mountain.
The above content is quoted from: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mingyue Mountain