Huangshui Forest Park

Huangshui is the forest country of Shizhu, a town and a national forest park on the high ground above the Yangtze, in the heart of the Three Gorges reservoir region. This is the cold end of the county: the country of the plateau Tujia, who grow buckwheat and herd sheep above a thousand metres, and whose life has always been the hardest of the three Tujia ways of living. Shizhu is known as the home of Coptis chinensis, a plant of shade, cold and constant damp, and its water shield ponds came to 14,000 mu by 2020. The forest is the crop's habitat as much as a place to walk.