Wenjing soil forest: A nature-born art work

Located at the foot of the Ailao Mountain in Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, south Yunnan’s Pu’er City, the Wenjing Earth Forest is one of four soil forests in Yunnan.

As a representative landscape in the county, the Earth Forest covers one square kilometer. It came into being since geological movement and soil erosion 80 million to 100 million years ago.

Geologists say that earth forests are loose deposits of clay, sand, and gravel in the Quaternary lake and river facies, which are eroded and washed by seasonal rain in a dry area. The formation of soil forest can be traced back to the ice age.

Reporting by Zhang Lin (Yunnan Daily app); Trans-editing by Mo Yingyi