摘要
武陵源因地处武陵山脉中段而得名,是湖南西北部的一片风景区,由张家界、天子山、索溪峪三大各具特色的风景区组成.亿万年前,这里曾是一片波涛翻滚的海洋.岁月悠悠,沧海桑田.大自然的无边威力将这里逐渐抬升为陆地、山脉、河流,随后又以挥洒自如的鬼斧神工在这里"穿透切割"、"精雕细琢",形成今天原始生态体系的砂岩、峰林、峡谷地貌,构成了溪水潺潺、奇峰耸立、怪石峥嵘的独特自然景观.以山扬名的武陵源,挺拔的奇峰,不是那么庄严,不是那么雄伟,威猛中带一点妩媚,浑朴中带一点狂狷,那神奇幽深、如诗如画的风景,是湖南真正的桃花源.
With “World Heritage” the gold-lettered signboard,Wulingyuan welcomes millions of visitors every year, makingthe outlying and traffic obstructed mountainous area in north-west Hunan province becoming a well-known tourism spot.Tourists from all over the world endow it many titles like“Original of Chinese Landscape Painting”,“Invaluable Geo-graphic Monument”, “Enlarged Miniascape and ShrunkImmortal Mountain”. “Water in Jiuzhai Valley and Mountainof Zhangjiajie ---graceful scenery worth visiting” has becomea popular saying in China’s tourism circle. Owing to itspredominance, tourism develops of Zhangjiajie takes onstrong “backward advantage”. More and more hotels, res-taurants and big or small stores emerge, like the bambooshoots after a spring rain. Vast engineering construction isnibbling and damaging the beautiful natural environment atan astonishing speed.
