Yiling Cave, Nanning Yiling Cave, also called "Gan Palace" in
the Zhuang language (which means “a place as beautiful as a
palace”) got its name for its location in Yiling village. A
national AAA level scenic spot, geologists estimate that Yiling
Cave, a karst cave, was formed a million years ago. The cave
also looks like a whelk, and has many beautifully shaped stone
flowers, pillars, curtains, stalagmites and stalactites, giving
visitors different sights at each step. Created with prodigious
skill, the sights in the cave are an ever-changing scenery of
rare beauty. During the Kaixi and Jiading periods of the
Southern Song Dynasty (1205-1224), a monk called Zhou Shiqing
supposedly built a Buddhist convent here and cultivated himself
into a fairy. Thus, later generations called Yilang Cave the
Fairy-Watching Cave, and they also built Jianxian Temple on the
mountaintop. Located in Liangman Mountain, the cave was
originally underground, and was then formed from the movement of
the earth’s shell. After ten millio