Wildflower Viewing in Chengdu: Toujiang First Gorge in Jinlang, Watching Yilong Flowers

People's Daily, Chengdu, March 31st: Recently, the weather in Chengdu has been like a roller coaster, constantly fluctuating and always nurturing a beautiful flower.

“Spring rain like hair again like dust, clouds open and close, open and close. Strange spring evening cold like this, relying on to receive.” In Chengdu’s Jinlang, at the Toujiang First Gorge, there is a grove of, in full bloom.

The Toujiang First Gorge originates from Zhao Town Street, Guan Yinzhan Village and Xinxian Street, Huijiao Street’s Shu Jia Wan Village between the gorge mouth, and terminates at the Toujiang Yangtze River Grand Bridge on the Cheng Ba Expressway. The Toujiang River leaves a landscape of 12 kilometers long through the Longquan Mountain range, evoking the sentiment of ‘on both sides, monkey cries don’t stop, light boat passes ten thousand mountains’.

In the gorge’s mountain stream, tree after tree of blooms across the mountainside, a profusion of flowers like snow, fresh and elegant, floating like faint clouds among the green mountains and clear waters, breathtakingly beautiful. A gentle breeze sends petals fluttering away with it.

As if wandering in a dream of floral language.

is different from other flowers; it only blooms after a cool and frosty baptism. In the late spring when the splendor has faded, the white petals are mixed with a pale yellow, elegant yet understated. That’s why people often say that before the tree blooms, even a bright spring doesn’t mean the weather will always be reliably warm.

As the rapeseed flowers turn into a lush green, pear blossoms and peach blossoms have successively exited the stage of spring. We ushered in the elegant and exquisite season. She is silently revealing her beauty, hoping to add a stroke of dark and vibrant color to spring’s splendor.

Hiking in Shu Jia Wan, trains sometimes roar through the gorge; away from the hustle and bustle of the city, blooms one after another, an endless expanse of flowers, a natural fragrance, exudes a detached and ethereal beauty.