Best place to travel in China:Peony Peak Natural Reserve
By admin on 2014-12-26

Peony Peak Natural Reserve is located in the northwest end of Laoyeling Mountains, connecting Taiping Mountain in the east and abutting Zhangguangcai Mountain in the west. It is a natural sight of primitive zoology and also a national nature reserve with a total area of 400 square kilometers. Peony Peak was once a lake with clean poppling waves in the history.

About 9 million years ago, the volcano body was formed after vulcanian eruption, mostly being basalt. The volcano body was eroded by the floodwater along with descending and ascending of the earth’s crust and the physiognomy of superposed mountains and interlaced ravines was formed. The highest peony peak can be 1111 meters above the sea level. In the area the water resource is quite abundant, rivulets running vertically and horizontally and the spring spewing the whole year. The distribution of vegetation features frigid and temperate zone or temperate zone, because it is in the north of the temperate zone. The forest is luxuriant and flourishing, and oak forest, birch wood, broad-leaved mingled forest and coniferous broad-leaved mingled forest are growing from bottom to top. This area is also affluent in plant resource and there are more than 500 species of higher plants such as Korean pine, spruce fir which are straight and thick. The rare broadleaf such as yellow pineapple, walnut and ash tree can be see everywhere. Xing’an juniper and hackmatack are rare visitors transplanted here from frigid and temperate zone. Below the forest are plants which are used for different purposes such as fern, Beiqi, Schisandra chinensis and lily.

There are over 50 kinds of animals inhabiting in this favorable environment such as northeast tigers, red deer and musk deer and over 170 sorts of avifauna such as swans, wide gooses, golden eagles and red-rumped swallows, among which the number and the species of migrants are the most. What’s more, more than 400 kinds of insects inhabit in the reserve, including over 40 kinds of beautiful citrus butterflies, yellow butterflies and Juan butterflies.