Wanfoshan is located in Tongdao County, Huaihua City, southwest of Hunan Province, about 20 kilometers away from the county seat and 200 kilometers away from Huaihua City. It is a national forest park, a provincial-level scenic spot and a nature reserve with an area of 100.83 square kilometers. The main peak is 597.9 meters above sea level.

There are five scenic spots in Danxia landform, stretching 168 square kilometers, namely Wanfoshan, Shenxian Cave, Qixing Mountain, Jiangjun Mountain and Wei Zi. The unique rocks, seven-star ancient temple, blessed land, lion's full moon, towering stone pillars, beautiful woman's husband, China's conch, scarab foraging, natural magpie bridge and 36-bend forest fan in the scenic spot are known as the top ten scenic spots.

There are many peaks, many pictographic landscapes and rich vegetation in the scenic area, which is known as the Great Wall of Wan Li. The scenic spot is a combination of seclusion, danger, beauty and wonder, and its ornamental value is extremely high. The whole scenic spot is composed of the Danxia landform area of Wanfoshan, the mysterious Bai Li Dong cultural customs line and Gongcheng Academy, which is the channel to save the life and death of the Red Army.

Geological structure of Wanfoshan

In professional geological terms, the Danxia landform area of Wanfoshan is located in the southwest end of the Yuanling-Mayang-Zhijiang New Huaxia Depression Zone and the Anhua-Tongdao Fault Zone, and it is a Mesozoic depression basin. According to the Geological Survey Report of Wanfoshan compiled by Professor Tong in September 2002, the geological history of the tunnel can be traced back at least 400 million years ago.

Consistent with the origin of Langshan Mountain in Xinning, Hunan Province, the area was in a shallow sea-seashore state for a long time from Banxi period 400 million years ago to Lower Paleozoic. About 200 million years ago, the earth's crust rose and the history of ocean immersion ended, entering the development stage of inland mountain lake basins; From Late Triassic to Cretaceous 1 100 million years ago, red beds began to deposit in inland lake basins.

This red bed is the material basis of Danxia landform-purple or dark purple, brick red conglomerate and glutenite. By the neoid geological period 20 million years ago, Wanfoshan had everything ready-there were red beds, the rock strata were gentle, the dip angle was only about10, and tensile and X- shear-torsional joints developed at the same time.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Wanfoshan