The World's Danxia Landscapes Are at Longhu Mountain

Longhu Mountain features Danxia landforms, with extraordinary peaks and vivid, lifelike landscapes, combining the morphological beauty of majesty, wonder, peril, elegance, and seclusion with spatial harmony, making it an excellent destination for tourism, leisure, adventure, scientific research, artistic inspiration, and study. Longhu Mountain is a World Natural Heritage site and a Global Geopark. Its landform types are diverse, with Danxia landforms as the main body, along with unique volcanic rock landforms and typical stratigraphic sections. The Danxia landforms developed on sandstone and conglomerate layers, which are rich in iron oxide, giving them a red color. They feature a 'flat top, steep body, gentle foot' shape. From afar, the mountain appears red like morning clouds, with pillar-like, wall-like, and tower-like shapes rising abruptly from the ground, giving a sense of precipitous elegance and unique beauty. Folk folklore vividly describes this landform as 'red face, black skin, wearing a green hat.' The Danxia landforms in Longhu Mountain are diverse, with a complete sequence from young, mature to old age, mainly dominated by late mature to early old age features, characterized by scattered peak forest and wide valley type Danxia. In 2010, Longhu Mountain and Guifeng, as part of the 'China Danxia' joint World Heritage nomination, together with Langshan in Hunan, Danxiashan in Guangdong, Taining in Fujian, Chishui in Guizhou, and Jianglangshan in Zhejiang, were awarded the World Natural Heritage status, making it the only site in Jiangxi with both Global Geopark and World Natural Heritage titles. Throughout history, many literati such as Gu Kuang, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Wen Tianxiang, Chen Lü, and Xu Xiake have left poems and writings along the Luxi River praising the red cliffs and green waters, becoming precious cultural relics of Longhu Mountain. There are over 780 Danxia landforms in China, and like humans, they have young, mature, and old stages. Longhu Mountain belongs to the late mature to early old stage. Danxia landforms are formed by the accumulation of fine sandstone and conglomerate in seas or large lakes. Due to crustal movements, they emerged above water and have been shaped by long-term water erosion, dissolution, and weathering, resulting in clusters of peaks, cliffs, and isolated hills that are extremely naturally beautiful. Geologists use Jiangxi's Longhu Mountain to describe this type of landform.