How old is the Yellow River Gallery?

The Yellow River Gallery was not known to the world at first and has been sleeping silently on the cliff walls of this section of the canyon. In 2000, Mr. Chen Baosheng, a professor at the Shaanxi Academy of Fine Arts and a national first-class photographer, took a wooden boat from Jiaxian County to Qikou and accidentally discovered this miracle. Since then, the Yellow River Natural Gallery has slowly become known to the world. This pure natural art masterpiece brings together a large number of painting art, architectural art, sculpture art, calligraphy art, etc. Mr. Wu Guanzhong, a famous Chinese painter, has visited the place many times and spoke highly of this wonder. He said that the relief murals on the Yellow River stone walls have high artistic appreciation value.

In recent years, with the rise of tourism, this rare natural wonder in China has attracted a large number of tourists from home and abroad, including a large number of photography enthusiasts, art enthusiasts and some geological experts. wait. A tourist from afar said without exaggeration: "The Yellow River Gallery is no less impressive than the peculiar Antelope Canyon formed by flash floods in Arizona, USA." Another tourist praised: "This is the most beautiful natural scenery in the Yellow River Basin"...

According to expert research, the geological relics of the Yellow River water-eroded reliefs were formed during geological movements about 200 million years ago. It is a natural cliff relief formed by groundwater dissolution and river erosion combined with the thick sandstone of the Triassic. Of course, the formation of the relief also plays an important role in wind erosion and light.