Shilin Scenic Area is located in Lunan County, 78 kilometers away from Kunming. This county is a region with relatively concentrated karst landforms in China, and there is a stone forest with an area of 400 square kilometers in the county.
Yunnan Shilin is the most typical karst landscape in the world, covering an area of 350 square kilometers. Known as "Plastic Geomorphology Natural Museum", it is one of the four natural landscapes in China. The scenic spot consists of seven scenic spots: Oishinohayashi, Xiaoshilin, Dashui, Longhu, Yuehu, Zhiyun Cave and Qifeng Cave. Among them, there are a lot of realistic stones in Shilin, which has high landscape value.
Shilin was named as "World Geopark" and "World Natural Heritage Landscape" by UNESCO. Stone Forest, Inner Drum Stone Forest, Zhiyun Cave, Longhu Lake, Dadieshui Waterfall, Yuehu Lake and Qifeng Tunnel constitute the Stone Forest Scenic Area.
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Stone forest and how it is famous. In the fifty-first year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, the Chronicle of the Southern Shandong Nationalities said: "There are many stones that people can climb in the Stone Forest, among which if thousands of teams ride, the dangerous mast grottoes, if they are nine months old, are all green and exquisite, and if they are searched, they will be as cold as snow.
Legend has it that once, in the middle of winter, there were two plum trees on the stone, strong and bright red, and no one picked them. The next day, they were found missing, commonly known as "plum stalks". In the 13th year of Guangxu, the Frenchman Deng Mingde preached in the south of Shanghai. He wrote a book about the social and cultural investigation, history and religion of Yi people, which is the first book about the spread of Yi culture in Shilin to the west.