Huashan Mountain is far from the ocean, located in the westerly belt between 30 and 60 north latitude, with a continental degree of 53 7', and belongs to the continental monsoon climate of warm temperate zone. Due to the steep mountain, the vertical temperature gradient (or direct cooling rate) at the foot of the mountain and the top of the mountain: from the county to the top of the mountain, the elevation at the northern foot drops by 0.44℃ every time it rises 100m, and the elevation at the southern foot drops by 0.5℃ every time it rises 100m.
There are many Taoist temples in Huashan Mountain with a long history. As early as the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Ji Ling Palace had been built. In the Tang Dynasty, some temples built by Taoist priests appeared one after another. It is said that the Baiyun Palace above is the temple of Princess Jin Xian in the Tang Dynasty, and the remains still exist.
After the development of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, in the Ming Dynasty, there were many Taoist temples on Huashan Mountain, and incense was very prosperous. Because the temples were originally built on the top of the mountain, flash floods broke out in the 16th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1677), and many temples were destroyed, so most of them were rebuilt in the valley after Qing Dynasty.
The most important temple in Huashan is Xiyue Temple. The temple is ten miles below Huashan and five miles east of Huayin. The former site is in Huangshen Valley. It was built in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, the aforementioned Ji Ling Palace. In the eighth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 165), the Huashan Temple Monument in Xiyue was published, and the rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty offered sacrifices to China and built a temple to pray for rain.
In the first year of Xingguang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 454), Wen Chengdi built a new temple in the north of Guandao, five miles east of Huayin, because the old temple had been destroyed. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, people of all ages were constantly maintaining and expanding it.
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Huashan has a vegetation area of about 6.5438+0.3 million mu, and its vegetation features are "coniferous forest and deciduous broad-leaved sparse forest area". There are nearly 80 families, 100 genera and more than 200 species of plants in Huashan area. Among them, there are more than 30 families, 40 genera and 60 species of seed plants.
There are nearly 50 species of pteridophytes in more than 20 families and genera, and nearly 70 species of bryophytes in more than 20 families and 40 genera. Mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests, mainly pine-oak forests, are distributed in mountainous areas above 800 meters above sea level. The main tree species are Pinus tabulaeformis, Pinus armandii, Pinus bungeana, Quercus variabilis, Quercus acutissima, Quercus liaotungensis and Populus davidiana.
The lower part of the pine-oak forest belt is a broad-leaved forest dominated by Quercus variabilis, with a small amount of chestnut, incense and oak. Huashan pine forest, Pinus tabulaeformis forest, Quercus variabilis forest, Pinus bungeana forest, artificial forest and Pinus massoniana forest are the main vegetation types in Huashan area.
In addition, below 800 meters above sea level, most of them are agricultural reclamation zones with little natural vegetation. Most of the cut plants are scattered on both sides of rivers or near villages, such as poplar, willow, elm, locust, Ailanthus altissima and Toona sinensis. There are patches or sporadic Platycladus orientalis in the foothills.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Huashan