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太 姥山1988年被列为第二批“国家级风景名胜区”；2004年被批准为“国家地质公园”；2006年被列为央视完美假期十佳旅游线路“闽东北亲水游”之龙头景区；2008年被评为“福建省最佳旅游目的地”、国家AAAA级旅游景区；2009年被评为中国国家自然遗产。
太姥山位于福建省东北部福鼎市境内，雄峙于东海之滨，晴川湾畔，山海相依，傲岸秀拔，气势恢宏，景致独特，素以“海上仙都”著称。
太姥山南距省会福州200km，北临浙江温州118km，是一处以花岗岩峰林岩洞为特色，融山海川岛和人文景观为一体的风景旅游胜地，分有太姥山岳、晴川海滨、福瑶列岛、九鲤溪瀑四大景区和瑞云畲寨、翠郊古民居两处独立景点，游览面积86平方公里。
太姥山拥有峻山、奇石、异洞、秀溪、急瀑、美礁、金沙、碧浪等众多自然景观，北望雁荡山、西眺武夷山，三者成鼎足，闽人称太姥、武夷为双绝，浙人视太姥、雁荡为昆仲。
太姥山于燕山运动晚期之后，由地下岩浆上升入侵而形成，主要岩石类型为肉红色钾长花岗岩，是中生代白垩纪的产物，距今一亿多年。太姥山花岗岩节理和构造断裂特别发育，西有一条东西向长达40km的大断裂，经多次地壳动荡，又派生出近东西、南北向两组X型断裂，迭加在垂直与水平两组原生节理上，交织成嶂谷、叠石、岩洞、峰林的方格状格局，其险峻与幽深，非喀斯特地貌可比。岩石多为浑圆状、球状、锯板状、城堡状、柱状，千奇百怪，移步换形，古人云：太姥无俗石，个个似神工。
太姥山气候为亚热带湿润季风气候，夏无酷暑，冬无严寒，温和湿润，四季分明。植物生长旺盛，奇花异草，翠色迷人。区内遍布杜鹃，种类繁多，色彩各异，成为一大特色。大嵛山岛上有万亩草场，具有“南国天山”之誉，被中国地理杂志评为“中国最美的十大海岛”之一。
太姥山文化盛于唐，历史悠久，古寺众多。南宋理学家朱熹、明朝抗倭名将俞大猷等众多历史名人留下足迹。太姥山下硖门等乡仍保留畲乡民俗。
太姥山集科学考察、旅游观光、文化追踪于一体，是大自然的经典巨著，人类的宝贵遗产。^-^Mt. Taimushan was approved to be one of the second butch National Parks in 1988, and approved to be a National Geopark in 2004. In 2006 the park was enlisted as a ‘Leading Scenic Zone’ for ‘Water affiliated tour to Northeast Fujian’ among ‘Ten Best Tour Trails in a Perfect Vacation’ organized by CCTV.And it was then selected as "Best Place for Tourism of Fujian Province" and "National AAAA Tourist Attraction" in 2008, then entitled "National Natural Heritage" in 2009.
Taimushan National Geopark is located in the territory of Fuding City, in the northeast of Fujian
Province. The mountain is soaring on the coast of East China Sea and close to Qingchuan Bay, the
mountain and sea rely on and bring the best to each other to build a distinctive landscape. The mountain, being gigantic and elegant, grandeur and powerful, has been famed as ‘Fairy Land on Sea’.
Mt.Taimushan, having an area of 86 km2, sites 200km from Fuzhou to south and 118km from Wenzhou to north. Integrating the mountain, river, sea and island, and cultural landscape as well, and characterized by peak forest and cave of granite, it has been appreciated as a famous scenic tour resort. The park includes four scenic areas: the Taimushan Mountain Peak, Qingchuan Bay Seashore, Fuyao Archipelago and Nine Carps Creek and Waterfall, two cultural landscape spots : Ruiyun Stockade of She ethnic group and ancient residential housing of Chuijiao Village.
Mt. Taimushan boasts its diversified landscapes: spectacular mountain, peculiar stone, grotesque
cave, elegant stream, swift waterfall, exquisite reef, golden sands and blue waves. Mt. Taimushan
could look into the distant view of Mt. Yandangshan northward, also could have a distant view of Mt. Wuyi westward, three mountains are distributed like a tripod. People from Fujian call Mt. Taimushan and Mt. Wuyi a couple of top views; while people from Zhejiang consider Mt. Yandangshan and Mt. Taimushan are equally picturesque. Taimushan rock body was formed in Late Yanshanian Period of, as the upwelling magma emplaced in subsurface of the crust. The main rock type is pink colored moyite, dated of 100 million years ago, the product of Cretaceous Period, the Mesozoic. Taimushan granite (moyite) is characterized by extremely development of joint and fault. There is a EW trending fault extending for 40km in the west, which underwent multiphase tectonic movement and derived two sets of fault: EW and SN trending faults in ‘X’ pattern. The faults have overlapped on the primary vertical and horizontal joints that makes up the chess board pattern structure, controlling the cliff-valley, piled blocks, cave, and peak forest. The landscape is sheer and spectacular, meanwhile serene and deep that Karst landscape can’t compare to. Stones here mostly are rounded, ball-like, panel-like, castle shaped, columnar, all kinds of strange things and all views change with changing of the view point. As ancients say, ‘Each stone of Mt. Taimushan is unusual, which comes out from uncanny workmanship of nature’.
The Geopark is situated in the sub-tropic marine climate zone. Four seasons are distinctive, however generally it is temperate and humid. It is not very hot in the summer and not very cold in the winter. Vegetation grows luxuriously with exotic flowers and rare herbs, the green appears very charming. Numerous kinds of azalea and rhododendron multicolored are spread all over the area, which is one of the distinctive features of the area. The Dayushan Island possesses a ten thousand Mo meadow, appreciated as ‘Southern Tianshan’. It was estimated as one of the ten most beautiful islands of ‘China by China National Geographic’.
Boasting its long history and numerous ancient temples Taimushan became prosperous as early as in the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Xi, the Confucian scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yu Daxian, the famous general of the Ming Dynasty in anti-pirate war and other prominent personages has left their historic footprints. Xiamen Country and other countries within Taimushan Geopark have preserved the customs of She ethnic group.
Taimushan have integrated subjects for scientific investigation, tour-sightseeing and cultural tracing, is considered as a classical masterpiece by the nature and the precious treasure of human.
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