The Painter's Village in the depths of the Taihang Mountains.

The Painter's Village in the depths of the Taihang Mountains is located in the Taihang Mountain Grand Canyon. Gaojiatai Village is located 9 km southwest of Shibanyan Town, Linzhou City, a national AAAAA scenic spot, national forest park, and national geological park. It has 13 natural villages, 8 village groups, 150 households, and 432 people. It is a traditional Chinese protected village, a national key rural tourism village, and a provincial ecological village. There are many attractions in the area, such as Xianxia Valley, Pig Call Stone, Bailongtan, Wohufeng, Hutiaoxia, Ancient Stone Tower, Shuiduanquan, and Jingdiping Lake. The peaks are rugged, the cliffs are high, the sun is strong, the terraces are staggered, the Cangxi water is swift, and the waterfalls are flowing. It is a typical representative of the "Northern Heroic Scenery". The village houses are built with local materials. The stone streets, stone courtyards, stone slabs, stone windows, stone pillars, and stone walls are integrated with nature. The tranquil and secluded mountain village style and unique stone slab houses are another treasure outside the "heroic, strange, dangerous, and beautiful" Taihang scenery, attracting tourists and art students from all over the country to visit and sketch, with an annual reception of more than 200,000 tourists. The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts and more than 200 universities across the country have set up sketching and creation bases here. Dai Shihe, Bai Yuping, Zhang Dongfeng, Yang Canjun, Zhao Kaikun, Ren Chuanwen and other top oil painters and Jia Youfu, Long Rui, Chen Ping, Fan Yang, He Jialin and other top Chinese painters have come here many times to sketch and collect style, and they have left many ink treasures. Gaojiatai is also known as the Chinese Painter's Village.