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Flowers bloom in Hunyuan, searching for beauty in Mount Taihang


Come appreciate the flowers! Fill your heart with a sea of flowers, adding more color to life. May you all join a sea of flowers, and keep this Hengshan Mountain flower viewing strategy!

The trees are full of delicate and gorgeous red, ten thousand branches of vermilion color melting the spring. If you want to experience the spring of Hunyuan, you must go to the beautiful Hengshan Mountain. Hengshan Mountain Scenic Area is a national 4A-level scenic spot. Every April, the white small mountain peaches in the Hanging Temple are the first to announce the arrival of spring, with peach blossoms and snowflakes blooming together, forming a unique "peach blossom snow" scene. Pink mountain peaches are spread across the mountains and ridges, like crimson clouds, winding around the mountains, where visitors can fully enjoy the vibrant spring of Hengshan Mountain.

 

Best viewing period: small mountain Peach Early April

Mountain Peach: Mid-to-late April

Recommended check-in locations: Hengshan Mountain, Hanging Temple

 

Crabapple blossoms are famous flowers appreciated by both the refined and the common people, known as the "fairy among flowers," "Imperial concubine among flowers," and "noble among flowers," and also has the honorific title of "national beauty." "Stealing three points of white from pear stamens, borrowing a wisp of soul from plum blossoms," "Cherish your delicate heart and do not lightly bloom, and let the peach and plum blossoms make merry in the spring breeze." Since ancient times, scholars have loved crabapple blossoms. When the crabapple blossoms bloom, their color is bright, their posture is elegant, beautiful and charming, captivating everyone. More than ten kinds of crabapple blossoms in Liuhe Park are fragrant, enjoying the best of the spring scenery.

 

Best viewing period: Mid-April

Recommended check-in location: Liuhe Park

 

"The young lady picks them with diligence and looks at them, saying that it is the spring breeze's top-ranking flower." "Top-ranking flower" is another name for apricot blossoms, carrying people's good wishes for the future. In mid-spring, Hunyuan welcomes the apricot blossom season. Tree after tree blooms, pink like clouds, white like snow. Walking among them, the fragrance of apricot blossoms fills the air and falls with the wind, landing on shoulders and adding a touch of floral fragrance to one's clothes. Apricot blossoms nurture the drool-worthy "sour hairy apricots" for children and the unique "peach-knot apricot" harvest of Hunyuan.

 

Best viewing period: Mid-to-late April

Recommended check-in locations: Dongwan Village, Liyu Village, Wucheng Village

 

The lilac's blooming never vies with other flowers. It's like a shy young girl, leaving only a gentle smile in the spring breeze, light and elegant, and quietly blooming. There is no dance of fireflies and butterflies, only the faint fragrance in the breeze. The lilacs in the Hanging Temple probe the pulse of the season, announcing the arrival of warm spring. Visitors can ascend the ancient Hanging Temple and admire the beautiful mountains and rivers amidst the light elegance and fragrance of the lilac flowers.

 

Best viewing period: Early May

Recommended check-in location: Hanging Temple

 

The radiant rapeseed flowers dress the motherland in a gradient-colored long skirt. From south to north, from Hainan to Xinjiang, Hunyuan's rapeseed flower season makes a stunning appearance in July, a summer with fields of rapeseed flowers swaying in the summer breeze, like waves, emitting a faint fragrance. Dong Hulu Tou Village is a must-visit destination on a Hengshan Mountain exploration trip. Here, there are mountains full of pine forests, and a gourd-shaped mountain that rises and falls, twists and turns. Here, cattle and sheep graze on the slopes, white clouds circle the mountains, and here preserves the most primitive harmony and beauty of nature.

 

Best viewing period: Mid-to-late July

Recommended check-in location: Dong Hulu Tou Village

 

3.5 kilometers north of Hunyuan County along the Tong Hun Highway, at the foot of the majestic Phoenix Mountain, lies a beautiful village surrounded by green trees and clear water. This is Shenxi, "Countless lotus leaves spread endlessly, and lotus flowers in the sun are strikingly red." In July, the lotus flowers in Shenxi bloom. Here you can find ponds full of lotus flowers everywhere. Wandering among them, one cannot help but be intoxicated by the faint fragrance. Shenxi Village also has a rich history and culture, with many historical and cultural landmarks, including the ancient Lü Lǚ Temple, Fengshan Academy, Guan Di Temple, Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient houses, and an ancient theater stage. Time flies, while time is right, seek out the warmth of Shenxi's rural life, and discover a different life.

 

Best viewing period: Late July

Recommended check-in location: Shanxi Shenxi National Wetland Park

 

When Gesang flowers bloom, people feel refreshed, and ten thousand colors of flowers are fragrant. Gesang flowers come in many colors. The slightly drunk wind, with its romantic innocence, gently outlines clusters and clumps of Gesang flowers in red, white, pink, yellow, and light purple. Under the rendering of sunlight, the sea of flowers emits a faint light, crystal clear, like a piece of red clouds. Er Mu Wan is a place where Hunyuan practices the "Two Mountains" theory, transforming mines into ecological tourism areas, where visitors can appreciate the unique charm of the ecological restoration of mining areas.

 

Best viewing period: Late July

Recommended check-in location: Mining Ecological Park (Er Mu Wan)

 

The autumn twilight in Hunyuan Ancient City is breathtakingly beautiful. The sea of calendula flowers on the back mountain of Hengshan Mountain makes the autumn Hengshan Mountain even more charming. Patches of bright yellow calendula flowers bloom in the wind, and the golden flower fields are embedded in the green wilderness, like golden ribbons spread under the blue sky and white clouds. The blue sky, the sea of flowers, and the green mountains paint a natural watercolor painting, which is unique against the backdrop of the setting sun.

 

Best viewing period: Mid-to-late September

Recommended check-in locations: Back mountain of Hengshan Mountain, Dongxinzhuang Village

 

Every flower does not want to miss the season; every scene does not want to miss you. All things revive, and flowers are in full bloom. Please accept this flower-viewing guide and bring your family and friends to a flower-seeking journey in North Mount Hengshan!

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