武陵源,深深地藏匿在湖南省西北部的武陵山脉之中。千百年来,它一直“养在深闺人未识”,直到上世纪七十年代末,才在世人面前撩开神秘的面纱,并赢得了“世外桃源”“天下第一奇山”之美名。1992年,作为举世公认的自然遗产,它一跃进入《世界遗产名录》,在中国诸多名山中,可谓后来 Wulingyuan, deeply hidden in the Wuling Mountains in northwestern Hunan Province. For thousands of years, it has been “kept in purdah without knowing it”. It was not until the late seventies of last century that it opened up the mysterious veil before the world and won the reputation of “paradise” and “the best in the world”. In 1992, as a universally acknowledged natural heritage, it jumped into the “World Heritage List,” which can be described as many in China’s mountains