Does the Qinling Watershed Scenic Area require tickets?
No tickets are required for the Qinling Watershed Scenic Area.
The watershed is about 5 kilometers northeast of Qinling Station. After exiting the station, you can walk straight along Provincial Highway 212. Along the way, you will pass Donghe Bridge, a farmhouse village famous for its "Lingnan Tofu Feast" Village, and the snow viewing resort "Lingnan Park".
After passing a section of winding mountain road, passing a pass and an archway-style gate, you arrive at the "Watershed" viewing platform. This section of the road takes about an hour to walk, or you can take a villager's van that will take you to the watershed for 5 yuan.
Standing on the watershed about 1,500 meters above sea level, you are stepping on the boundary between north and south China, and also on the water line dividing the Yellow River system and the Yangtze River system: to the south of the watershed is This is the source of the Jialing River in the Yangtze River system; to the north of the watershed is the Qingjiang River in the Yellow River system. The Qingjiang River flows out of Qingjiang Valley and will flow into the Weihe River, a tributary of the Yellow River, in Weibin District, Baoji City.
Qinling Divide
The Qinling Mountains are an ancient east-west folded and faulted mountain range located in central China. It starts from the southern part of Gansu Province in the west, passes through the southwestern part of Shaanxi Province and ends in the western part of Henan Province. It is the watershed between the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, and the Jialing River and Han River, tributaries of the Yangtze River. 1,100 kilometers long. The western section of the Qinling Mountains in Gansu has lower mountains, with peaks about 2,000 meters above sea level. There are Chengxian, Huixian and Liangdang basins sandwiched between the mountains.
The East Qinling Mountains east of the upper reaches of the Jialing River run east-west, with tight folds, huge mountains, narrow valleys, and an average altitude of about 2,000 to 3,000 meters. The main peak, Taibai Mountain, is 3,767 meters above sea level. It is one of the few peaks over 3,000 meters in eastern China. There are ancient glacier relics on the top of the mountain.