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Ten thousand years ago the place was a vast ocean, and today it has turned out to be a forest of stones. According to legend, a beautiful girl called Ashima was rescued from kidnappers here by a handsome young man called Brother Ahei. The place that compromises the unique landscape and this romance is Shilin, or the stone forest.

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