Mugecuo

Mugecuo (Wild Man Lake) is a sacred tourist place and a bright shining jewel in Kangding. There, mountains are green, water is clear, birds sing and flowers give forth their fragrance. It attracts many visitors from in and outside of China.

Mugecuo has mountains, water, springs, lakes, flowers, trees, birds, and other innumerable natural wonders. The most famous of these is the "Great Lake." In the daytime, if the weather is good, the sun shines on the surface of the "Great Lake" and makes most of the water appear light blue. The center of the lake does not contain any dark blue hues and looks as if it's the blue sky. If you take a boat out on the water, you will feel it is very still, so still that you can't feel the water moving. The water is very clean, so clean that you can see the sand and stone at the bottom. The water is very blue, so blue that it looks like a gem.

Mugecuo is beautiful, beautiful in the stillness of the morning. When the sunlight from the East shines on the surface of the "Great Lake," it looks as if it is a huge, pure jewel -- very still, very still.

Mugecuo is beautiful, beautiful at midday. The strong noontime sun shines on the surface of the lake, and occasionally, several small and exquisite birds take off from the water, which, illuminated by the golden rays, looks as if it is a rice field at harvest time.

Mugecuo is beautiful, beautiful at twilight. Layers and layers of thin evening fog envelop the surface of the water, so it looks as if it is a shy little girl, too embarrassed to take off her white silk scarf.

In summer, around the "Great Lake" there are green-forested mountains covered with multi-colored flowers such as azaleas and Tibetan "Gesang" flowers. Bud by bud, patch by patch, meadow by meadow, variety by variety, they compete with one another to blossom the most beautifully. Of the surrounding mountains, one looks like Tangshen, from the ancient story "Journey to the West," staring at the horizon alone, so it is called "Thoughtful Tangshen Mountain." Another mountain is even more special. It looks like Tangshen's disciple Zhubajie (the pig god), facing the sky and shouting loudly. So, it is called "Shouting Bajie Mountain." The trees, flowers, birds, and other natural beauty on the mountains decorate it like a garden in the sky.

This kind of mountain surrounding this kind of water, this kind of water reflecting these kinds of trees, in addition to the clouds and fog in the sky, bamboo rafts and small boats on the lake, green trees and red flowers on the mountain, all make you feel like you've walked into an unending scroll painting. Mugecuo is really a fairyland on Earth. It's truly the pride of Kangding. Taking a boat and floating out on the lake makes you feel like you are "on a boat on blue waves, a person traveling in a picture" (from an ancient Chinese poem).