Dragon Palace Cave

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The Dragon Palace Cave is at the foot of Mount Wulong,36 kilometers to the southwest of Pengze County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. Mount Lu is not far from it. It is a natural underground”palace”. The Dragon Palace Cave is composed of some cave clusters, such as Longgong Cave(also Dragon Palace Cave), Yuhu Cave (also Jade Kettle Cave), Yuxian Cave (also Jade Fairy Cave) and so on. The clusters are more than 2700 meters long with the total area of 4.3 square kilometers.

It’s called the Biggest Karst Cave Cluster along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway.

Geographers say the area around Mount Lu used to be a sea thousands of yearsago.A lot of limestone accumulated under the sea. Later the crust changed, the seabed rose, and then the land was formed. The Dragon Palace Cave is therefore a limestone cave with a length of over 2,700 meters. Interestingly enough, the caves are linked as if there were caves within caves. It resembles the Dragon Palace in East Sea described in the famous ancient Chinese novel”Journey to the West”.

Entering the Dragon Palace Cave, you will see there are three stalactites like the Longman very much in front of the Dragon Palace Cave. Its forehead is protruding, and two sides of the hair are grey, welcoming people with smile, so it is called “the Sea Longman”.

Walking forward to the East Palace, there are all kinds of stalactites inside the cave. Some are like sea birds and some are like palace lanterns. In the West Palace, the most attractive is the stalagmite called “Sea God Needle”in “Journey to the West”. It is very famous. The Sea God needle is connected with the top of the cave; under the needle there is a stone tortoise, not only interesting, but also very grand.

When visitors come here, they cannot help taking photos as a souvenir. In deep ditch of the stone wall in the west side, if looking carefully, you will see as if there are shrimp soldiers and crab generals patrolling in boats. From this, we can see the creation of skillful craftsmen is very lively.

Just as its name implies, the Drum Music Hall is a music playing place in the Dragon Palace Cave. In the hall there are hundreds of stalactites like waterfalls. If you knock them lightly，you will hear low or high ringing sounds like musical instruments.Some are like piano sound and some are like drum sound.