Eight hundred li of Taihang, the most beautiful canyon is here

Eight hundred li of Taihang is a long green axis spread across the North China Plain. If you ask which part is the most breathtaking, the answer lies in Baquan Gorge in Huguan, Shanxi — it is the poetic eye carved by billions of years of wind and rain in the Taihang Mountains, and also a secret natural gift to the world. Take the cliff elevator straight up to the clouds, beneath your feet are knife-cut cliffs, with moss mottled on the thousand-zhang rock walls, as if the wrinkles of the earth hide stories of time. The elevator pierces through clouds and mist, in an instant lifting you to the "Sky City," with the deep valley below surging with emerald waves. The main ridge of Taihang unfolds before your eyes as a continuous dark green screen, even the wind carries the crisp mountain air. If you want to savor the gentleness of Taihang, take a boat into the waters of Baquan Gorge. Shuanglong Lake lies quietly between the canyons, its surface like a mirror, blending the shadows of the mountains, clouds, and trees into a mass of blue-green. Where the boat moves, ripples shatter the mountain light, startling a few silver fish, and the reflected waterfall is stirred into flowing ink — the waterfall cascading from the cliff top looks like someone tore the threads of the Milky Way, with flying jade and beads splashing coolness throughout the valley, the air soaked with the sweet freshness of pine needles and water vapor. The beauty of Baquan Gorge is the shock of vertical drops, the spiritual elegance of mountains and waters reflecting each other, and Taihang’s most generous gesture of goodwill. Once you come, you’ll know this canyon is the pearl hidden in the folds of Taihang’s time.