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Shimenguan is located on the riverside behind Cangshan Mountain in Dali. There are two cliff canyons hundreds of meters high, shaped like two huge stone gates, with clear streams and waterfalls rushing out. It is a magical landscape. Surrounded by rock walls, deep canyons, and turbulent streams in the valley. Shimen Pass is actually chiseled by ghosts and gods, and it opens up the sky from a foreign land. It has the tendency of "one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it". Xu Xiake, a famous traveler in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in his travel notes after visiting Shimen Pass: "Because of looking eastward, suddenly the clouds burst out, revealing two pieces of green hibiscus. People and spirits leap." "Looking at Shimen, it is close at hand, pressing up and down, cutting thousands of feet in parallel, no more than two feet apart, its top and two ends are the same, and its roots can only hold a water... Shimen cliff cuts clouds and cuts green, high It’s really a spectacle to make parallels.”
The most amazing thing is that in October 1994, a large cliff painting with an area of about 16 square meters was discovered in the back mountain of Songlin Village nearby, with animals, figures, fruit trees, silver palms, houses, hunting, circle dancing, etc More than 200 pictures, the largest picture is about 1 square meter, and the smallest is about 5 square centimeters. It was identified as a work of the Bronze Age by experts and named "Yangbi Cang Mountain Cliff Painting". It provides detailed information for the study of society, nationality, religion, art, production and life, etc. two or three thousand years ago, and has become a major attraction for people to watch and visit. landscape.
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08:30-18:30 all year round
