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Liusha Waterfall at the source of Jiulong Stream is 216 meters high, the highest waterfall in the country. Some say it is also the highest waterfall in the world. In 2011 it was selected as one of the "Top Ten Waterfall Tourist Destinations in China Most Loved by Tourists in 2011." In the wet season, rolling waters fly down from the cliff into the deep pool, like nine dragons tumbling waves, swallowing clouds and spitting mist, with a sound like thunder, shaking the valley, majestic and spectacular! In the dry season, the water drifts down the cliff, sometimes like light gauze brushing the face, sometimes like a hanging bead curtain, just like white gauze washing in the green pool and stirring up layer upon layer of ripples, graceful and gentle, delicate and elegant. Looking up at the waterfall from the front, it seems as if the waterfall pours straight down from the clouds, truly "the flying stream plunges three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way falls from the ninth heaven." Walking along the pool to the inside of the waterfall is like the Monkey King entering the Water Curtain Cave. Looking at the waterfall from behind, one sees only that the waterfall pours down from a semicircular "Moon Rock." The waterfall drifts, dances, advances, and retreats, like waves, like ripples, like gauze, like white silk. Because the gorge is unpredictable, when sunlight shines, a seven-colored rainbow appears on the upper curtain of the waterfall. The rainbow drifts downward with the water droplets: one rainbow falls, another emerges; one disappears immediately after another, and one is produced immediately after another. Those rainbows flashing with wondrous light are truly too beautiful!
Coming out from Dehang Town, walk along the village path toward Liusha Waterfall, stopping as you go, and at a bend you can already see the waterfall in the distance. Most of the time, the waterfall rushes down from the cliff, and with the extremely high drop, the water scatters into a flowing-sand form below. Visitors can walk along the mountain paths on both sides and pass under the waterfall. The faint water drifts down like mist or gauze, making one feel as if entering a Water Curtain Cave, with fine drizzle soaking into the heart. The water droplets like fine sand, with the wind, blow onto the face, hands, among the grass, and on the stones, and after rushing to the bottom, they merge into the deep blue lake below the waterfall.
Without the majestic momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, and without the wild roar of ten thousand beasts, yet by virtue of a trace of softness that seems both present and absent, Liusha Waterfall lingers in the viewer's heart with an ethereal quality.
Looking up at the waterfall from the front, it seems as if the waterfall pours straight down from the clouds, truly "the flying stream plunges three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way falls from the ninth heaven." Walking along the pool to the inside of the waterfall is like the Monkey King entering the Water Curtain Cave. Looking at the waterfall from behind, one sees only that the waterfall pours down from a semicircular "Moon Rock."
The waterfall drifts, dances, advances, and retreats, like waves, like ripples, like gauze, like white silk. Because the gorge is unpredictable, when sunlight shines, a seven-colored rainbow appears on the upper curtain of the waterfall, and the rainbow drifts downward with the water droplets.
