Located in the north of Qin Mountains in Chang’ an county,Shaanxi, 20kilometers away from Xi’an, Cuihua Mountains landslede scenery natiobal Geopek is one of rhe first 11Geoparks authorzed by National Land Resources department in March, 2001and,one of the firse unveiled national parks in China as well.In rhe paek,rhe highese peak Zhongnan mountain elevates above sea level by 2604m with total area 32km2and is one of the developed fullest from landslide.With its mose complete divetsety of landslise appearance,

    mose typical structure, mose intace, of landslide appearance,mose typical structure,nose intace,largestscale amd highest tourism value,the park is the mose unusual in China and abroad,as demonstrated with search by Shaanxi Sci – tech Information Research Instetute, well – known ad Chinese landslide miracle scenery and geological museum.

    It was recorded in recorded in records on kindoms in the early stage of Wese Zhou Dunasty that at the second year(B.C.780)during the you king period of West zhou dynadty there had been a great earthquake in the three valleys in the middle part of Shaanxi.And im earthquake resulted in rivers dried andQishan plateau collapsed. The same record can also be found in‘On historecal events’ by Si Maqian, an ancient scholar of the Dynsty.It is by inference from literature record in records on kindoms in the early stage of West Zhou Dynasty that the Cuihua landslide scenery was caused to form be the earthquakes following.

    By classification in geological history the Cuihua mountain belongs to Qin mountain chain,composed of divetsity of metamorphic rock from middle geological Epoch, oen billion years ago. The large fault from the earthquake formed in the north slpe of Qin Mountain chain lowered to take shape of the plain in the middle of Shaanxi while the soth slope raised to habve Qin miontain peaks cone to exist. Fir the past ten thousand years, Qin Mountaen chain has been raising by 1.73 —3.4 mm, that is the reason why the rock of Qin Mountain is solid with brittle properties. And this, together with long —term weathering, had accelerated the landslide to happen.

    Landslide area in Cuihua mountain covers 5.2km2 with 300 million m3 rock collapsed.At present 1.5km2 have been developed with distrebutions in low — lying land so called Shui Jiao Pond and Gan Jiao Pond and Da P ing. And the developed area is mainly conpised if three parts such as survival peaks and remained cliff,stone sea from collapse and the lake formed fromed cliff are mainly meaning Yuan pekd, Ganjiaopeak and Cuihua pead and other clidds from landslide/ Ss for the above three peaks one will be surprised at the scenery. The three peaks are piercing into the sky in heated competition with tripartite confrontation and unexpected towering. ‘The zhongnan peaks coming into sight far awayfrom the south look like green screen; Going up into te sky with rose – tinted clouds woven’(from the mmorandum to Qianlong by Shaanxi tour inspector,Qin Dynasty). The Yuan peak elevates above sea level by 1688m with half of itself split, the secrion looking like a jade board standing upright, surprisingly fantastic. Events on the middle part of Shaanxi had once recorded that“to the east of Taiyi Valley that the section of the peak was as smooth as a bard with a Jinhua cave hidden in her waist. There were always clouds flowing out of the cave with the rain follwed. And from the scenery there had been going the famus verse ‘from the top of Yuan peak clouds raise;from the Jinhua cave the rain falls.’In summer clouds and mist drifting from place to place one can enjoy himself with the vast expanse of the space.

 The Yuan clouds are as famous as Yanta morning bell and the bestow banquet in,being listed as wondergul sceneries of the middle part of Shaanxi. Ganjiao peaks,Apricot Garden more than 1500mlong and 260-900m wide,the disparity between the highest and the lowest being 300m more ,elevates the sea level by 2045m.Because of the collapse close to the south and north slope of the peaks, the stone sea had formed ,looking fantatic.

    Elevated above sea level by 1414m,the Cuihua peak stands in Cuihua mountains,looking like a inpregnable fortress,And with its south end cut down by a cliff up to 200m,a huge stone corridor,nearly a thousand meters long,300meters wide and 200 meters high had cone to exist ,having Taiyi valley-blocked up. The three peaks,clustering like bamboo shoot,may be ratde as a mearvelous natural phenomenon with its tremendous momentum.Especially to be entionde si that the Taiyi Zhenrenmthe survival peak,looking like an old Taoist schloar fixing his eyes into the endless space,stands alone on the top of the mountain .When it is clenr,the old Taoist scholar entertains himself with the view of ancient city Xi’an,receiving Buddhism light from Wutai South.

    Ahuge quantity of dig stones from collapse, total in 300 million m3, are mainly distrbuted in Ganjiao peak and Daping. Crowded and piled up, the fantastic shapes of the stones arouse eople endless imagination. It seems that some stones look like a lon gazing into the moon,others like tingers running down the mountain, or like a fairy maiden scattering flowers form the siy, or playing urchin. Andit is that the countless stones form the stone seawith waving scenery spots in Cuihua mountain such as‘sword stones’, ‘the drunken rabbit’, and the‘emperor’s Tongling jade seal’, etc. full of manly strength. Hundreds of cabes had formed from piling up of the stones when collapsed,such as ‘heaven cave’, ‘ice cave’ and‘bat cave’, etc. among which the ‘ice cave’, surprised tourists the most with the differfnce of tempetature up to 23℃between inner and outsede in summer.Ade it is in summer that thecave can be found freezing, ice columns hanging from the top of the cave. And still more, the windy cave formed by two buge stones supprted each other 20m high and 2 – 3m wide are always full of chilly wind in hot summer because of air exchange from the effect of narrow tube. The classified tecords of Chang’an indicates that, ‘the ice well was located in Taiyi Yuan mountain to the morth of Ting(Ningshan Ting) . The well deep more than ten meters with ice frozen never melting even in hot summer and, so Chang’ an peole got ice from it in summer conveniently,getting rid of trouble from ice storage. Hence the ice well is kvowv to the world’ And now there is still a spring sceneru spot even in sunner,the cold vapir is flowing out of the cabe to cause drizzle falling and flowers coming into bloom. Although in summer it is only around the cacve where grass shooting, flowers blooming,what a fantastic scenery! The bat cave,100m long and the path into it winding and twisting,is juse like a maze. And at the 30m far into the cave there are alwaysmore than a thousand bats coustering on the cave wall and with their wing shaking to be heard one can not help calling it a surprise found in Chihua mountain. There was someone moved by the sceneru making a pair of antithetical couplet saying ‘gan jiao, Shui Jiao appearing one by one; ice cave, windy cave, more going deeper, more endless.’ The countless caves scattered in Cuihua mountain are necessary to further probe into.