Biliandong Scenic Area

This guide to Biliandong Scenic Area outside Yangshuo follows a lone traveler named Xu Xiake, who ducked into this hillside cave in the 1630s with only an oil lamp and a notebook after years of mapping caves on foot across China. It traces the eight characters he chiseled into the rock once he saw what lay inside, and the older local legend of two divine dragons who slid in from the Li River and never left. You'll hear how the cave earned both of its names. Listen for the story of a Taoist hermit and a hidden bell said to ring somewhere in the dark.