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Zixi Mountain
Going westwards about 15 km from the Deer City, the
capital of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, along the Yunnan-Burma
Road and then another 10 km along a newly-constructed road, you come
to the Zixi Mount Forest Park. With the green pine forest stretch to
horizon, and red azalea decorated in it, limpid streamlets running
through the mountain, the park is a picturesque resort making tourists
linger about.
It is a nature-protected zone here consisting semi-humid evergreen
broadleaf forest and Yunnan Pine forest mainly. A forest coverage of
91% makes it the main water source for Chuxiong city. There are more
than 202 species of higher plants in 65 genus and over 107 species of
animals. Actually, it’s a world of plants and animals.
What’s more, it was once a Buddhist halidom. Lots of temples have been
built attracting the bonzes to come cultivating here. The Zixi
Mountain also abounds with camellia. According to the research, there
were camellia
 cultivated even 1000 years ago in the mountain. The
history of the cultivation, the variety of the species and the
enrichment of the color of the camellia here are the second to none in
Yunnan. There’s a saying: Camellia in Yunnan exceeds all in China, and
camellia in Zixi exceeds all in Yunnan. |
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