In which province is Stone Forest located?

Yunnan Province.

Stone Forest Scenic Area, often called Lunan Stone Forest or Yunnan Stone Forest, is located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, China. It was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China on November 8, 1982 as one of the first batch of national key scenic spots. The legal name of the scenic area at that time was "Lunan Stone Forest Scenic Area".

In 1931, Kunming Stone Forest Scenic Area was officially established.

On April 1, 1978, the Stone Forest Scenic Area began to sell tickets for Chinese and foreign tourists.

Since 1931, after 82 years of construction and development, Kunming Stone Forest Scenic Area has now become a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction.

Extended information

The Stone Forest Scenic Area is 120 kilometers away from Kunming and covers an area of ??more than 400,000 acres. Stone forest is a typical karst landform, formed after hundreds of millions of years of geological changes. Stone Forest is also the hometown of Ashima in the legend of the Yi people. The Stone Forest Scenic Area is mainly composed of large and small Stone Forest (Li Zijing Stone Forest), Naigu Stone Forest, Zhiyun Cave, Changhu, Dadieshui and other scenic spots.

The "Torch Festival" on the 24th of the sixth lunar month every year is the best time to visit the Stone Forest. In 1931, Yunnan Provincial Chairman Long Yun passed by this place and named it "Stone Forest". Zhou Zhongyue's running script inscriptions were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. After the reform and opening up, the local tourism department collected the characters from the "Cuan Baozi Monument" stored in Qujing No. 1 Middle School to create the current plaque.

The signature "Long Yun Ti" was inscribed by Long Yun's son Long Shengwen in September 1985, and was restored by Shilin County [3]. In 1962, Zhu De visited Stone Forest and impromptuly inscribed "Peaks stand on the wall, thousands of peaks are green". Since there were only eight pieces of paper, there was no place to write the inscription. The three words "Zhu De's inscription" now printed were copied and engraved from other inscriptions.

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