Located in the northwestern part of Wulingyuan Scenic Zone, Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve boasts rocky peaks in grotesque shapes and shrouded in drifting mist. There are many scenic attractions, such as the lofty Imperial Writing Brush Peak, Fairy Maid Scattering Flowers, and the Mid-Air Farmers’ Cottage. The highest peak is 1,260 meters (4,130ft) above sea level and provides stunning views of the surrounding mountains and valleys. Waterfalls, bridges, stone forests and caves are found throughout the mountains. There are not just beautiful landscapes, but also simplicity, peculiar folk custom and local folk food of special flavor awaiting the arrival of visitors.

The landscape here varies in different seasons and also in one day, which makes Tianzi Mountain a very interesting destination. There are four highlights for the breathtaking sceneries: peak forest, cloud sea, sunrise and winter snow. Cloud and mist in Tianzi Mountain enjoys high reputation nationwide, especially just after the rain, which adds much charm to Tianzi Mountain.

Tianzi Mountain has four scenic wonders, namely Cloud Billows, Moon Brightness, Sun Glow and Winter Snow. The cloud billows are ever changing, morning and evening sun glows vast sky, moon shines in the still night, winter snow falls enchanting the scenery, like a lyric, like a landscape painting. Here in the Tianzi Mountain, scene majestic is in all its variety. There are five main scenic zones and over ten scenic spots in the Tianzi Mountain area. They include more than 80 natural platforms to take in the magnificent scenery. Highlights in Tianzishan: Helong Park, West Sea Stone Forests, Divine shrine and Immortal Bridge. 6 tourist areas have been built to accommodate visitors and they include more than 80 natural platforms to take in the magnificent scenery. Visitors can also reach the peaks of the mountain by cable car.

West Sea Stone Forests

Situated in the west of Suoxiyu Valley, it is a basin-like landform with a collection of peaks and woods. In this sea, numerous peaks stand with different shapes and poses, covered with lush vegetation. Therefore, it is called sea of trees and sea of peaks. In spring or summer or a clear day immediately after a rain in autumn, the clouds are surging and rolling like waves, covering the whole sky and earth. The view is so magnificent that it is called sea of clouds. The combination of the three seas is the characteristic of West Sea. In it, Gate to Heaven and Sky Terrace are wonderful scenes.

Shentang bay (divine shrine)

Shentang Valley is also named Shentang Fort. It is a gorge shaped like a huge basin walled by lofty precipices. The bottom of the gorge is veiled in mists and clouds all day, adding to its mysteriousness. As the saying goes, the most beautiful scene is seen from the most perilous peak. There are almost no roads to Shentang Valley, only a quite dangerous flight of stairs that is as wide as a foot being available. Local people say, Every step kills one soul. In the center of the bottom lies a fathomless green pond. Looking down the pond from the mouth of the gorge, one cant help shivering. Whats peculiar is that visitors can hear sounds of gongs and drums, neighs of battle steeds and shouts of men echoing from the bottom. Nobody can give a reasonable answer to this mystery. Therefore, Shentang Valley was a forbidden place in Wulingyuan and a puzzle for hundreds of years.

Tianmen Mountain, a famous mountain fist recorded in the history of Zhangjiajie, has an elevation of 1518.6meters. It is only 8KM far from the downtown and is one of the most representative natural scenery of Zhangjiajie.
Tianmen Cave the natural mountain-penetrating karst cave with the highest elevation in the world, hanging on the towering cliff. The cave becomes the unique sight under heaven and breeds the profound and grand heaven culture and culture of fairy mountain in the local area.Tianmen Mountain is the second national forest park in zhangjiajie. On the top are intact sub-primitive forests with overflowing wild atmosphere in all seasons.
The tourist traffic design of Tianmen Mountain is worth the title of world-shocking masterpiece.Tianmen Mountain Cableway, Heaven-Linking Avenue, Tianmen Cave and Bonsal Garden in the Air are reputed as the four great wonders.Tianmen Cableway , the longest one-way recycing passenger cableway in the world, has a length 7455m and a height gap of 1279m. The tianmen winding way has a total length of less than 11km . Yet the elevation of it rises sharply from 200m to 1300m. The 99 blends link closely with each other an pile up in layers, making a pattern of a circling flying dragon reaching the skyline.

Tianmen Mountain , is approved to be National Forest Park in 1992, has an elevation of 1518.6 meters. It is only 8 kilometers far from the downtown and is one of the most representative natural sceneries of Zhangjiajie. For a long time, Tianmen  Mountain not only attracts the attention of the people by its miraculous and unique geographic landform and unparalleled natural landscape, but also well known for its profound cultural connotations and famous colorful humanistic sites. It is revered as the soul of culture and spirit of Zhangjiajie, China.

Main Attractions

● Tianmen Cave
Tianmen Cave is the natural water-eroded cave with the highest elevation in the world. In the year 263(the sixth year of Wuyong Period of Three Kingdoms), the thousand-meter high cliff of Songliang Mountain suddenly broke open into a door-like cave which became a rare wonder of the world. Hence Songliang Mountain is change to Tianmen Mountain. Tianmen Cave runs south-northward with a height of 131.5 meters, a width of 57meters and a depth of 60 meters. It rises above the ground and nears the sky with a lofty and towering posture. The shadow of it reaches the north of the vast sea, the clouds over it near the south of the handle of the Dipper. It's much like a gate towards the heaven. The wonder attracted the visits and appreciations by emperors, officials, sages, hermits, dignitaries and men of letters of different dynasties. After the accumulation over the dynasties, the unique profound Culture of Heaven is built up.  In 1999, the masters of international stunt flying piloted the planes to fly through Tianmen Cave. The activity gave rising to sensational reactions in the world. There were 800 million audiences watching the live telecast.

● Tianmen Mountain Cableway
The tourist traffic design of Tianmen Mountain is worth the title of world-shocking masterpiece. It will bring shocking and unforgettable experiences for the tourists. Tianmen Mountain Cableway, Heaven-Linking Avenue, Tianmen Cave and Bonsai Garden in the Air are reputed as the four great wonders. Tianmen Mountain Cableway, the longest one-way recycling passenger cableway in the world, has a length of 7455 meters and a height gap of 1279 meters.

It takes the tourists from the atmosphere of modern city directly to the hug of the primitive garden in the air. During the running of cableway, the landscape transforms into a kaleidoscope, making the tourists experience a miraculous feeling of flying angels in the sky as well as of being blended into a long grand painting of landscape. The mountain-winding highway of Tianmen Mountain, nicknamed as Heaven-Linking Avenue, has a total length of less than 11 kilometers. Yet the elevation of it rises sharply from 200 meters to 1300 meters. The avenue rises steeply according to the form of mountain. The 99 blends link closely with each other and pile up in layers, making a pattern of a circling flying dragon reaching the skyline. Tourists marvel at it, which is worth the title of the Top Highway Wonder in the World.

●  Tongtian Avenue (Avenue toward Heaven)
Tongtian Avenue has 99 turns symbolizing that the Heaven has nine palaces. It is worth the title - wonder of highway in the world. Through Tongtian Avenue, one reaches directly the Tianti - celestial ladder. The grand celestial-like scene came into view.

●  Tianmen Mountain Temple
Tianmen Mountain Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty as a center of Buddhism in the area of western Hunan. The present Tianmen Mountain Temple is rebuilt on the basis of the original site with a plot area of more than 10,000 sqm. It adopts an official style of the Qing Dynasty and the buildings in the Temple compare well with the famous classical houses at home. The Temple is located in the mountain hollow with a broad vision. If one gazes into the southeast, all the hills seem to be so small that the Temple is really like an overlord.

●  Highlight events on Tianmen Mountains
Tianmen Mountain is not only a common attraction in Zhangjiajie but also a place attracts special people, On March 17-19, “The 2006 Russia Air Force Aerobatics Performance” entered ceremoniously in Tianmen Mountain of Zhangjiajie, the Soviet-27 heavy battle plane and Russia air force warrior composed a world-shaking legend here once more. In 2011, American Wingsuit flyer--Jeb Corliss jumped from a helicopter 6,000 feet (1,830 meters) above the Tianmen cave, flying towards it, and sailed right through the cave.

What’s more, the 'Dawazi' challenge (means walking on the high performance rope set between mountains, the name of Dawazi comes from Xinjiang province), the Tianmen Cave Rock Climbing (a French man Alan Robert has successfully climbed up to the Tianmen Cave so he was called 'the French Spider Man' and from that many rock climbing competitions were hold at Tianmen mountain), the cyclists think the twisting mountain road a perfect place to have fun. Everything here makes Tianmen mountain a must-see attraction in Zhangjiajie.

It's one of the top five famous mountains in China. Other 4 mountains are Tai Mountain, Hua Mountain, Heng Mouantian (it's another maintian, they have a same name) and Song Mouantian. One of the top 10 famous scenic attractions of China.

It's quite convenient to be Heng Mountain from Changsha or Guangzhou by taking high-speed bullet train. Only takes a couple hours.

Furong Town is originally named Wangcun，about 90km away from Zhangjiajie center city. It is an ancient town where Tujia minority live together. Until now, in the town, pavement laid with black flagstones and ancient domestic house ( mainly Diaojiaolou----stilt wooden houses ) are well preserved. The famous movie Furong Town directed by Xiejin is shot here. At Furong Town, you must take the local specialty, “rice tofu.” that become famous because of the movie. The scenery in the town has unique bearing. Shops with trap doors are on the both sides of two-kilometer street of black flagstone. Tujia Diaojiaolou (stilted house) are set up against the slope.The simple bearing of Tujia is very charming. historic Xizhou Copper Pillar witness Tujia minority people warring time. Wangcun waterfall which is about 60 meters high and 70 meters wide is an inspiring site.

    The core scenic area of Baofeng Lake covers the whole lake surface which is 2.5 kilometers in length, 200m to 1000m in width, and an average depth of 72m. It is the only scenic area with the water as its scene in Wulingyuan World Natural Heritage. Baofeng Lake is located among the mountains, receiving natural waters all over the mountains, far from the pollution, thus it is awarded as “Holy Lake”. Around the lake stands dozens of cliff and steep sandstone mountains. It is especially famous for Baofeng Waterfall, which falls from a height of over one hundred meters and hangs down the mountain as a white curtain with loudly thunders. It is used to be location for shooting Pilgrimage to the West and taken as the natural performance set of Zhangjiajie International Festival of Forest Protection and appeared for several times on CCTV and Hunan TV.

Known as the world’s first real-scene musical drama with the high mountains and deep valleys as the stage background, Tianmen Fox Fairy was put on at the foot of Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie in September, 2009. Originated from a traditional Chinese myth and folk tale- “Love between Man and Fox”, the drama integrates the elements of folk music and modern art. As the story progresses, you will find settings everywhere from the foot of the hill to the peak, be it spotlight, stage for the chorus, background houses…everything. The visual presentation is spectacular and amazing, the music is impressive, and those dancers and singers are also charming.

Every night except harsh winter months it will be on show at the Grand Valley of Tianmen Mountain. Here you can listen to sweet singings, admire colorful lighting scene, and experience the strong folk custom of Tujia and Miao minorities. Since this open-air drama　is only performed at night, when the weather gets cold you had better bring a coat to enjoy it.

With an investment of 120 million Yuan and a cast of 530, the wonderful drama has attracted bout 150,000 travelers from home and abroad since its debut performance. Tickets are available from most travel agencies or hotels.

The Tianmen Mountain and Tianmen Cave are grand and magnificent. A 5km valley with altitude difference of more than 1000m nestles in the magnificent and extraordinary Wuling Mountain Range. The valley boasts fragrant grass, chattering stream and mist wafting from the valley, which make the valley like a heaven of peace and happiness.

The main stage of the A Fox Fairy of Tianmen Mountain – the New Story of Woodman Liuhai blends with wonderful mountains, valleys, forests, streams and waterfalls to form the only large stage against the background of towering mountains and valley in the world, measuring all over 1 kilometer in depth, width and height respectively. The central stage of the play is built above the brook, looking like an inverse ancient tree floating on the bubbling stream, which blends with surrounding natural landscapes perfectly. Occupying a total area of 10000m2, the stage is the largest stage for performance in the world up to now. Moreover, it is designed to be made of glass steel, which becomes transparently bright under lighting effect to create fantastic scenes with color variations.

● Production Team:

Planner & Chief Director: Mei Shuaiyuan, creator of China landscape live-action and general producer of Impression of Sanjie Liu, Zen Music ShaoLin Grand Ceremony, Jinggang Mountain, Dreamlike Glory of the Song Dynasty, Proud Son of Heaven - Genghis Khan, Chinese Mountain Tai - Grand Ceremony of Worship and other live-actions.

Music Art Director: Tan Dun, the most influential Chinese composer in the world and the winner of Grammy and Oscar original music prizes.

Composer: Zhang Xiao, young composer, one of the composers of Impression of Sanjie Liu and composer of Jinggang Mountain and Dreamlike Glory of the Song Dynasty.

Playwright: Zhang Rensheng, famous playwright who has won the "Best Works Award of the Ministry of Publicity of CPC & Wenhua Playwright Award of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China" for many times.

Executive Director & Editor: Min Rui, one of the executive editors of the opening ceremony and closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Chief Stage Art Designer: Yan Wenlong, famous art designer, chief stage art designer of the opening ceremony of Shanghai Special Olympics and other large-scale performances, and the stage art designer of Chinese Mountain Tai-Grand Ceremony of Worship, the Interpretation of Dujiangyan and other large-scale performances.

Lighting designer: Wang Yugang, lighting designer of Impression of Sanjie Liu, Dreamlike Glory of the Song Dynasty and other live-actions.

Digital video producer: Beijing Crystal Digital Technology Co., Ltd, digital technique producer of the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games.

● Project Implementation and Stage Design:

A Fox Fairy of Tianmen Mountain – the New Story of Woodman Liuhai is unveiled against the background of a valley measuring about 5km in length stretching from the mountain gate of Tianmen Mountain scenic spot to the top of Tianmen Mountain, with altitude difference of 1100m. The main stage is built at the lower end of the valley in the mountain gate; tens of extraordinary mountains alongside the valley as well as the towering Tianmen Cave are the profound background of the main stage. The main stage blends with the valleys, wonderful mountains, forests, streams and waterfalls to form a super-large stage measuring several kilometers in depth and over a thousand meters in width and height difference.

The auditorium and main stage occupy a total area of 19880 m2. The panoramic stage made of glass steel occupies an area of 10000m2, which is transparently bright with lighting effect to form a fantastic scene. The performance areas are divided into five parts: central stage, mankind's world on the left, fox's world on the right, the singing platform in the front left and the live-action of terrace and timber bridge at the back.

The central stage is built on a brook with an inverse ancient tree floating on bubbling stream to form an integral live-action stage together with protruding stone bed. As to the mankind's world on the left, many Tujia wood huts with black tile carved windows and wooden fences are built along the mountains as stage art landscapes. And these simple wood huts are connected with each other to form a distinctive village of western Hunan. In the fox's world on the right, bizarre rocks are built amid forests, and rare flowers and grass are embedded to form a fantastic natural fox paradise. In the singing platform hanging on a hill, more than 100 girls wearing traditional costume, silver adornment and silver bells of Tujia Rthnic Group sing to offer people with wonderful aural enjoyment. The live-action of terrace and timber bridge with rich pastoral characteristics at the back echoes with the village from afar. The whole stage is natural as if it has been standing there for thousands of years at the foot of Tianmen Mountain to tell a legend.

It's an off the beaten track tour for the people living out side of Changsha. But it is becoming a more and more popular resort for locals recently.

It takes more than 2 hours to arrive there from central business district of Changsha by public buses. It's a 4A rank of National tourist attractions. Normally, tourists go there for relax. It was a busy and prosperous seaport. The name of the town was adopted from a respectable general Jing.