Quartz Sandstone Peak Forest

Quartz Sandstone Peak Forest is the most outstanding landscape features of Zhangjiajie, which is rare in the world. Here you'll find yourself with hundreds of grotesque peaks. In fact, Zhangjiajie, honored as "the most fantastic mountain under heaven" and "a living Chinese landscape painting", attracting a growing number of tourists from home and abroad.

Quartz Sandstone Peak Forest is Called "quartz sandstone peak landform", according to scientific research, about a million year ago, as a result of the shock of the waves, the quartz sandstone laid about five hundred miters deep at the bottom of sea, later ,due to the movement of earth's crust, the land rise out of the water, with the aid of tiny sandstone was carried away by the constant flow of water, with the aid of gravity, the rocks crumbled. Then after many years of combined effects of rains and streams, the peculiar quartz sandstone peak physiognomy gradually formed in wulingyuan area.

These beautiful quartz sandstones lived on Zhangjiajie for thousands of years and no one has ever imagined that have the value of art. Howerver, Li Junsheng, a people of Tujia nationality, who changes the sleeping sandstnoes over ten thousand years into a new type of world recognized art- sandstone painting.

Reputed to be a form of "green painting" and "environmental protection painting'' in art circles, Junsheng Sandstone Painting is regarded as "the special pride of Hunan" and also of Chinese people in general. It is rated high aesthetically and prized by art collectors. In fact, it is considered the precious gift that the Hunan Provincial Government present to all guests, both at home and abroad.

Mr. Li's "Junsheng Sandstone Painting is a style of creative art made from natural and perm-colored materials, namely, sand, fragmented stone and portions of plants". This special kind of painting integrates several other art forms-Chinese painting, oil painting, print painting, carving, and miniature landscape. In so doing, it presents us with an intriguing three-dimensional effect, coupled with a strong sense of reality. His productions are highlighted by gorgeous natural scenery, ancient and plain ethnic dwellings, wild and attractive Tujia girls, as well as strong and unrestrained Tujia men. Some of these works are calm, even passive; others are filled with dynamism. But all of these paintings capture your attention, and you cannot help but be fascinated both by the careful thought and the skillful craftsmanship.

The sandstone paintings break through the using of traditional painting materials and use nature materials by making use of the hue of natural plant creatively, are of great art and collection values.