丹霞山命名情况介绍(英文)

丹霞山命名情况介绍
Danxiashan National Park
DANXIASHAN NATIONAL PARK
Danxia is literally understood in Chinese as “red sunglow”. Red rocks and red cliffs all over, the mountain looks like a red stone sculpture park, so it earned its reputation as “ the Red Stone Pa rk of China” and Mt. Danxia. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasty, Danxiashan has become a famous place of interest and listed No. 1 in the top four mountains in Guangdong Province. On Aug. 1st, 1988, Danxiashan, with the area of 215 k㎡, was authorized by the National State Council as a National Park.
Based on Danxia Landform, the park is famous for its red stones, limpid water, verdant trees, peaceful country scenery and unique local religion and culture. On the basis of proper environmental protection, landscape reservation and tourism development, the setup of Danxiashan National park is certain to keep forward the sustainable development of local society, economy as well as its culture and environment, which will pave the way for it to be recognized as a first-class tourist attraction around the country and throughout the world.
Danxiashan National Geopark
DANXIASHAN NATIONAL GEOPARK
(THE RED STONE PARK OF CHINA)
Danxiashan National Geopark, with an area of 290 k㎡, is located in the northeastern suburbs of Shaoguan City of Guangdong Province, PRC.
Danxiashan was a huge inland basin in Nanling Mountain Area around the years between 140 million and 70 million years ago, where the deep red bed gradually developed after accumulation of a mass of detrital matters. Around 70 million years ago, the basin intermittently uplifted, then down-cut and eroded by water flows, and finally developed into what is named Mt. Dnxiashan.
In 1930’s, the landform characteristic of non-marine red clastic rock, red walls and red cliffs was named Danxia Landform. Among the 650 places of Danxia Landform found in China, the Danxia Landform here is one of the places with the largest area, the most complete types, the richest modeling and the splendid scenery.
The setup of Danxiashan National Geopark is in favor of protecting the precious geological and geomorphologic heritage and an incentive of promoting the sustainable development of local
tourism and economy.
Danxiashan Global Geopark
DANXIASHAN GLOBAL GEOPARK
The Global Geoparks are referred to those natural areas with unique significance of geology, precious geological heritage and outstanding aesthetic value, which have great significance and value for scientific research of the history of global geology, important geological incidents and its shape process, as well as outstanding significance of education and tourism.
The Danxia Landform in Danxiashan, where the term of Danxia Landform came from, can be classified as typical, representative, diverse in shape and irreplaceable. Now, the scientific research of Danxia Landform on the stratum, formation, physiognomy, agent action, development natural environment and ecological evolution is the most detailed and deep-going among all Danxia morphologic regions of China and has served as the national and will go on to serve as the global scientific base for Danxia Landform, as well as for scientific tourism, and general education and practice.
ON February 13th, 2004, Danxiashan was successfully authorized by the UNESCO to be one of the First Global Geoparks, which paved the way for Danxiashan to the great aim to be one of the most well-known mountains around the globe. The Danxiashan of tomorrow will certainly be a first-class global geopark with the geological heritage, ecological environment, and regional culture well-preserved, and local society and economy sustainably developed.
The Annal of Naming Danxia Landform
THE ANNAL OF NAMING DANXIA LANDFORM
Danxia Landform is made up of non-marine red clastic rocks and characterized by red walls and red cliffs. It was named after the famous mountain in Lingnan----Mt. Danxiashan, which is the typical representative of its kind and was given such a name because Mt. Danxiashan has features with “luster as vermeil and patina as sunglow”. In 1930’s, Prof. Cheng Guoda, the experienced geologist, named the red glutenite peak clusters in South China Danxia Landform after Mt. Danxiashan, making it one special geomorphology that is widely accepted by international academic circles.
With the efforts of generations of scholars, the research on Danxia Landform has developed
into one of the branches of geomorphology. As a result, Mt. Danxiashan has become the base for the comparable research into Danxia Landform in the world. Swarms of places of Danxia Landform have become famous scenic areas with their peculiar landscape, among which Mt. Danxiashan is the very representative.
Peng Hua, Director-general of the Danxia Landform and Tourist
Development Research Society of China
January, 2000。