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LAST UPDATE: 1st January 2020
Li River Mountains
The Mountains along the Li RiverLi River mountains add more charm to the Li River around the year. When it is at late March and early April, fog and the mountains along the Li River make for an amazing fairy land to admire.
The source of the Li River, Cat Mountain (Mao’er Mountain) is one of the favourite mountains among locals and domestic Chinese tourists who are interested to appreciate the sunrise and the cloud sea. The mountain is located around 3 hours ride from the hear of Guilin City. |
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The Li River is decorated with karst hills/mountains on either side. Flowing through the City of Guilin, the Li River neighbors with several well-know mountains for hundreds of years, witnessing the development of the city. The mountains are Fubo Hill, Elephant Trunk Hill, Diecai Hill, and Yu Hill. On the top of the Fubo Hill, visitors can enjoy the panoramic views of the whole city while the Elephant Trunk Hill is one of the old landmarks in Guilin.
Mopanshan Hill near the departure point of the 3-star Li River Cruise features stunning sunrise. Xianggong Hill in the Yangshuo Countryside is one of the mountains near the Li River offering good spots to photographing the sunrise. Compared to Mopanshan Hill, Xianggong Hill is very crowded with tourists. |
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Nine-horse Fresco Hill is one of the well-known karst mountains/hills along the Li River. The frescoes of the nine horses on the wall facing the river are one of the highlights as well. Laozhai Mountain in Xingping Old Town is endowed with the gorgeous sunset as well as sunrise. But it is very dangerous to hike the mountain as the road on the mountain is underdeveloped.
The sunset adds more attractions to the karst mountains and the Reflection of Yellow Cloth Shoal opposite to the Xingping Pier. The Li River Cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo will take you to see hundreds of karst mountains/hills along the river during 4 hours cruise. Alternatively, you could hike or ride a bike along the Li River to view the mountains at a close range. You may hear birds singing en-route. |
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Li Keran
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Li Keran created around 20 Li River paintings. The most well-known is called the “Amazing Views along the Li River in the Early Morning” (Qing Li Sheng Jing - 清漓胜境图) created in 1977. In the painting, local houses, kart hills in the Yangshuo Countryside, sail boats and the Li River make for a pleasing picture. Xu Beihong In 1935, Xu Beihong lived in one of the houses at the bank of the Li River due to the war. The house was sent to him by Li Zongren. The landscape paintings created by Xu are very few. The most famous is “Spring Rain on the Li River” (Lijiang Chunyu - 漓江春雨图). In 1937, he explored the Li River and was shocked at the landscape along the river. Then, the works was born. |
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Wu Guanzhong
The Li River is the subject Wu Guanzhong focused on for some time. The scenery in the Li River paintings he created is elegant and graceful. The realistic method is interspersed with freehand brushwork. The paintings reflect a strong oriental sentiment and Chinese aesthetic meaning. The most well-known is “New Bamboo Forest along the Li River” (Lijiang Xinhuang - 漓江新篁) which was sold for the hammer price of 74.175 million yuan (10.767 million US dollars), starting with the reserve price of 22 million yuan (3.193 million US dollars) at 2018 Spring Beijing Poly Auction at Four Seasons Hotel Beijing on the night of June 20, 2018. Bai Xueshi Bai Xueshi was a famous contemporary landscape painter. The landscape painting based on the landscape in Guilin and along the Li River are the most representative of his painting style. He was good at painting the landscape along the river as well. He had explored the Li River with his feet for more than 10 times since 1972 and created tens of Li River paintings with different weather conditions. |
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