Aesthetic value of Zhangjiajie geomorphic landscape is not only expressed in its appearance, but also hidden in its connotation. Due to the difference in development stage and development degree, as well as the difference in rock joint density and water flow conditions in different regions, there are many landforms such as platforms, square mountains, peak walls, stone columns, stone peaks, peak clusters, stone gates, natural Bridges, canyons, and barrier valleys, and thousands of individual landforms with endless changes. Among them, the peak forest landform is the most representative.
In the 86km2 core scenic area of the park, more than 3100 peak pillars have developed, with a distribution density of 37.5 /km2. The height difference between the summit and the ground is 10m to 400m, the peaks are like forests, the cliffs are upright, the gullies are deep, and the streams are surrounded, forming a large-scale, magnificent, unpredictable, mysterious and profound, beautiful, incomparable and powerful geomorphic landscape. Especially when the sea of clouds between the peaks is rolling, surging, strange, shrouded in smoke, haze, peaks and peaks, and instant changes, people will also ebb and flow of thoughts. The aesthetic value of Zhangjiajie landform lies in the fact that it can enter people's soul and affect people's consciousness.
Since Chinese painting master Wu Guanzhong first visited Zhangjiajie in 1979 and was shocked by the beauty of its landform landscape, and vigorously promoted it, the aesthetic value of Zhangjiajie landform has been praised by people from all sectors of society at home and abroad, and has produced many works and painting schools with great influence.
The aesthetic significance of Zhangjiajie landform, to a certain extent, has gone beyond aesthetics itself and become a spiritual pursuit of people.
Zhangjiajie to the world, the Chinese painting master Wu Guanzhong can not be ignored. In October 1979, he was invited to Hunan to draw a giant landscape painting for the Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People. In November, he made a special trip to western Hunan to pick up the style and came to the forest farm in Zhangjiajie at that time. He was deeply attracted by the scenery here, in the difficult conditions to spend five consecutive ink scenery, a width of two meters, high "Own carved - Zhangjiajie" especially stunning painting, this painting is now in the French Lisage Museum collection.
After coming down from the Zhangjiajie Forest farm, he wrote a travel essay "raised in the bestie and unknown", which was published in Hunan Daily on the New Year's Day in 1980. He took Zhangjiajie as a lost in the western Hunan landscape pearl, he wrote in the article: "In order to explore the beauty of painting, I have worked hard to walk through many famous mountains, feel Yandang, Wuyi, Qingcheng, stone forest... Not as beautiful as this nameless Zhangjiajie." "The beauty here is not comparable to Guilin, but Danluan is more mysterious, more concentrated, more upright and more wild than Guilin!" This article has aroused keen attention from all walks of life at home and abroad, and has produced a strong response.
Since then, Mr. Wu has spared no effort to promote Zhangjiajie, making Zhangjiajie this lost scenic pearl out of the deep, known by the world, not only has the establishment of the first national forest park, the honor of world natural Heritage and the establishment of the world geoparks, Zhangjiajie is also due to the rapid development of tourism and Zhangjiajie tourism. Two years after the death of Mr. Wu Guanzhong in 2010, the local government and people built a bronze statue of Mr. Wu Guanzhong in the global Geopark in memory of the artist's contribution to Zhangjiajie's development into the world.
