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Sanyou Cave

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Sanyou Cave, at the northern exit of the Xiling Gorge and 10 kilometers away from Yichang , offers possible the best cave scenery in the Three Gorges area.

The cave got its name after the visit from the three most famous Tang Dynasty poets of Baijuyi, Baixingjian and Yuanzhen. Legends goes that the three poets paid a visit to this cave and inspired by its unique scenery, they each wrote a poem of it on the cave cliff.

Sanyou cave is in the sheer cliff and is cool in summer and warm in winter. The inside of the cave is broad in the shape of an irregular rectangle. The cave is 30 meters in depth, 23 meters in width and 9 meters in height and was formed by centuries’ erosion from the water against the rocks. The rocks in the cave take a great variety of shapes. On the flat rock faces are inscriptions left by numberless ancient poets, the themes of which are much pretty the same, praising the fantastic cave scenery. There are over 100 steles of inscriptions found in and outside the cave and 60 of them are well preserved. The forms of these inscriptions range from regular script, clerical script, seal character, running script, cursive hand, covering all the forms of Chinese characters. It is no wonder that Sanyou Cave is renowned as living museum of Chinese calligraphy.

In front of the Sanyou Cave flowers the Xialao Stream, whose water is as clear and bright as gemstones.

Near the cave entrance, a small path leads to the Zhixin Pavilion, where the travelers can gain a majesty scenery of the mighty Yangtze River surge among high mountains.

Sanyou Cave served as a revolutionary site during the Word War‖and was visited by premier Zhouenlai on his way to check terrain for the Three Gorge Dam to be built.

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Take bus No. 4 at the Yiling Square and get off at the 22 Company. The Sanyou Cave is 300 meters away and there are road signs leading to it.

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