Guilin is a world-famous scenery tour city, and absolutely has the unique karst formation. Hills in Guilin thrust into the heaven and become forests of peaks of fantastic shapes. The Lijiang River water, crystal clear, twists and turns while the hills are hived with caves of various descriptions. The hills always to be quite, have fantastic caves and marvelously shaped rocks. Then hence form the four matchless----“green hills, crystal waters, fantastic caves and marvelously shaped rocks.” and reputed as “the landscape in Guilin the best under heaven.”
Guilin is also an ancient city of culture. With a history of over 2,000 years, it has accumulated a profound base of culture. In the Warring States Period, here was under the rule of the Kingdom of Chu. After the unification of the country by Qin, Guilin was made a prefecture with the Ling Canal dug to link up the Xiang and Li rivers, thereby making Guilin a town of importance for reaching the sea to the south and a thoroughfare hub to the central China in the north. After Song Dynasty, Guilin had always been the political, economic and culture center of Guangxi, known as the “Prefecture of Conjunction in Southwest China” till the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In the long run of history, the picturesque landscape of Guilin has attracted many visitors and men of letters to come, making them write down lengthy pieces of relishing poems and articles, left over more than 2,000 pieces of stone and leftovers almost everywhere in Guilin.
Thousands of hundred years, Guilin is an excellent tour destination for tourists. Now, a tourist area with Guilin as its core and include 12 counties in its vicinities has come into being. Here you can see vast and verdant primeval forest, marvelous peaks and secluded valley, rapids streams and waterfalls and marvelously terrace on the mountain….. Living on this piece of land are the Zhuang, Miao, Yao, Dong, Mulao, and Maonan, a good over 10 ethnic minority peoples. What swifts over green waters and hills around here are the feelings and customs, pure and fervent, featuring the unique styles of life of the ethnic minority people here. A greater scroll of scenic beauties with more ethnic customs and history and culture is now unfolding before you, catching the attention of more visitors domestic and foreign and making them to come and linger here longer without thinking of return. |
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