The Grand Taihang Mountain Valley

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Taihang Grand Canyon is 100 li long from south to east, 2.5 li wide from east to west, at the elevation from 800 meters to 1739 meters and its relative altitude difference is over 1,000 meters.

The mountains here are covered by green trees with green lakes. It is a valuable land with a good geomantic omen, an inspiring place producing outstanding people and a treasure producing good products. It is a legend that the solider-and-slave-born prime minister, Fushuo, in the Shang Dynasty lived in Wangxiang Rock; A celebrity in the late of the Eastern Han Dynasty, XiaFu, tonsured to be a monk and buried himself away in Wangxiang Rock because of “Trouble Arising In the Highest Academic Institution In the Han Dynasty”; In the Ming Dynasty a Taoist of Hebei province Zhaodexiu cultivated his morality in Wangxiang Rock; In the Qing Dynasty the DufuYoushilang of the Ministry of War in feudal China, Xusanli, built a villa in Wangxiang Rock to spend his declining years. Caopei in the period of Three Kingdoms once stationed his troops in Yijianshan Mountain to design great undertaking; And the Shenwu Emperor Gaohuan in the Northern Qin Dynasty as well as the famous general Zuoliangyu in the Ming Dynasty command their soldiers in Peach blossom Cave to campaign all across the country.

People in this region have lived and multiplied here from the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Residential buildings generally use local materials: stone streets, stone yards, stone walls, stone columns, stone stairs and stone buildings, which become one with nature. It is having an old-fashioned and antique flavor and cause people to think.

There are three wonders: Peach blossom Valley where peach blossom in frigid or bitter cold days, Taiji Mountain where water are frozen in the dog days and a Chinese puzzle-Stone with pig’s noises. There are also eight scenic spots: the soul of Taihang Mountain-Wangxiang Rock, deep pool and seclude valley-Xianxia Valley, Jinpu dragon cave-Xaiodongtian, primitive virgin forest-Tianhang Mountain, Mist wreathed Xiantai Mountain, prodigious skilled Luban Door, the greatest attraction Peach Blossom Waterfall, Nangu Cave of Taihang Plat Lake. Besides, there is a first-grade Linlvshan international gliding base which is also the No.1 in Asia.

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