Hollowed Cave

    This cave has an area of 240 square meters, 3 to 4 meters in height, 25 meters in length, and 10 meters in width, which is formed by nature. In the stratum of clastic rocks with red continental facies which is gentle in occurrence, there is usually the interlayer of siltstones with very soft lithology. When the running water constantly scoured a certain part of the stones for a long time, the erosive scour broke the stratum into pieces so that the stratum collapsed along the direction of the souring water. Along with the continuously rising earth crust, the formed cave has been lifted to a certain height. Please look at the three statues. They are Fu Hsi, Yellow Emperor, and Yan Emperor respectively, three emperors of the Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns in ancient China. The “Yan and Huang” we usually refer to as descendants of the Yan and Huang Emperors are Shennong as the Yan Emperor and Xuanyuan as the Huang Emperor, who are the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Around 6,000 years ago, the era of Shennong, the Yan Emperor, was one when farming was replacing fishing and hunting in China’s ancient times, which was the last phase of matriarchy and in the Neolithic Period. The Yan Emperor is not only the first ancestor of China’s farming civilization, but also the initiator for exchange of medicines and materials. Now that the cave is called New Hollowed Cave, there should be an Old Hollowed Cave which is located in the Lion Peak and where gathers some landscapes of humanistic value, such as a square for Gao Qiqian, a eunuch of the late Ming Dynasty, to train the soldiers. At the square, there are still a cypress planted by Gao and his grave. Now, we are making efforts to develop that area.