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Yuanmou Earth Forest
 The Earth Forest in Yuanmou, a provincial class scenic
spotis made up of five areas, including the old city, Xinhua - bangguo
- wumao region and Jinsha River valley. Its representative landscape
soil forest is distributed to Xinhua, Bangguo, Wanbao and Tiger
Leaping Beach, covering an area of 50 km. It was formed by geological
movement and soil erosion one or two million years ago. It is named
for its shape like immense forest and the main composition of the
expansion earth. The Earth Forest, the Stone Forest and the Colorful
Sand Forest in Luliang are called "the Three Forest in Yunnan".
The whole landscape of the Earth Forest in Yuanmou is mainly castle,
screen, curtain and column, including the highest about 40 meters and
very grand. Looked at closely, the shapes look like persons and
animals highly realistic and animated among them.
Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture is between Dianchi Lake beside
Kunming and Erhai Lake in Dali. it's an important hub of middle
Yunnan. Cheng-Kun railway, Guang-Da railway and Kun-Wan road cross it.
Here are one of the well-known birthplace of humanity and a treasure
house of ancient living things fossils. Lufeng Fossil Ramapithecus
about 8 million years ago, Yuanmou Man(Homo Erectus Yuanmouensis)
about 1.7 million years ago and Lufeng dinosaurs of 1.8 billion years
ago were excavated here. Many archaeologists from home and abroad
regard Chuxiong Prefecture as the cradle of humanity and "The home of
 ancient living things". Huge Mallet white tower of Dayao built in the
Tang Dynasty has a rare shape in Chinese ancient buildings. The large
bronze statue of Confucius at Wen Temple Shiyang town is the only one
that well preserved in Chinese mainland. |
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