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About Hezhou Jade Stone Forest
The site was opened as Jinqi Shilin. Pinggui district records that after the China geology annual meeting was held in Hezhou in June 2003 geologists came out to look at it, observed that the stone throughout the hill is shot through with white, and identified it as what the district calls hanbaiyu granite, white-marble granite, one of the stones associated with karst country; the name Yushilin, jade stone forest, followed from that. The district also sets out what lies in the same ground: Yanshanian granite intruded the Palaeozoic beds, an altered zone formed, and hydrothermal veins of tin, iron and quartz were injected into it, which is why tin has been worked here for more than a thousand years, from the Song dynasty onward.
Mosses lying on the surfaces of most of the columns have dried and weathered there and stained the stone black, so that the forest reads black against white. Among the rock teeth, pillars and peaks the district names Shilai yunzhuan, Yang huitou, Qingwa wangyue, Yixiantian and Yiwei shi, with others likened to a peacock in display and to a walking dinosaur. The autonomous region's culture and tourism department carried the Yushilin scenic area at grade 4A in Hezhou in its register of A-grade scenic areas compiled to the end of 2021, matching the district's own AAAA listing.
What to look for
- The black-and-white pillars, darkened where mosses on their surfaces have dried and weathered
- Yixiantian, the narrow cleft among the named rock features
- Shilai yunzhuan, Yang huitou, Qingwa wangyue and Yiwei shi, the other named rock shapes the district lists
- The rock teeth, stone pillars and stone peaks that make up the forest
- The white-veined stone of the hill that gave the place its present name after the 2003 geologists' visit
Location & getting there
Getting to Hezhou Jade Stone Forest
Use an authorised visitor route. Cave sections, geological sites and access roads can close independently, so confirm the area that your ticket covers.
- Search for 贺州玉石林 with 贺州市 and 平桂区.
Find Hezhou Jade Stone Forest
贺州玉石林 · 平桂区
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Sources & visit information
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