Wangshunshan scenic area of granite peaks and ridges, covering an area of 210.62 km2, is a part of the Yushan sub-geopark of island-arc granite ridges and peaks. Mt. Wangshunshan was nominated from a story about Wang Shun who buried his mother by carrying soil on shoulder-pole from farther places. The highest peak in the scenic area is the Yuhuang peak that has an altitude of 2,239m.
    Geological heritage in the scenic area is dominant in granite with different structures, xenolith, granite peaks and ridges, spheroidal weathering, vertical joints and escarpment waterfalls.
    Wangshunshan scenic area of granite ridges and peaks belongs to the area of the Yushan sub-geopark of island-arc granite ridges and peaks, covering an area of 210.62km2. Wangshuanshan Mountain was named Yushan Mountain in ancient times, the highest peak of which is 2,239m above sea level.
    In the scenic area, faults and joints are well developed. Weathering and collapsing shaped the granite in highland into ridges, peaks, stone pillars and stone teeth. Geological heritage in this area is represented with granite with various textures, xenolith, granitic ridges and peaks, phenomena of spheroidal weathering, vertical joints and escarpment waterfalls.
    Climbing on the top of the Yuhuang peak and watching around, you can see Huashan Mountain, the famous West Mountain in China, eastward, the Weihe Basin northward, the mountainous region southward and the town of Xi’an city westward.
    The porphyritic adamellite in this area is represented with light pink, medium-sized porphyritic and massive textures, in which the porphyritic crystals are composed of K-feldspar with euhedral and hypidiomorphic crystals, reflecting the crystals of K-feldspar were developed under the conditions of adequate time and space when magmatic intruded. The porphyritic crystals of K-feldspar are featured in fissures formed by compression and infilled quartz veinlets, some spherical crystals of which illustrated the functions of shearing stress on the granitic porphyritic crystals when they uplifted by compression. Minerals in the granite consist mainly of amphibolite, K-feldspar and quartz, secondly of biotite, chlorite and epidote.
    Yunu pond is a pond formed by a stream flowing down along joint planes.
     Xenolith in granite； Xenolith is an inclusion in an igneous rock which is not generally related, such as an unmelted fragment of country rock.
    Smooth surface of a fault indicates that movement of both the fault walls was strong in friction, thus increasing temperature at some parts of the fault planes, resulting in remelting of rock powder and forming a thin and smooth layer of mylonite.
    A reversed fault shown by the hanging wall moved upward and the lower wall moved downward, in which shattered belts, feather joints and smoothed planes of fault developed well.
    Joint is common in geological structures, which is a fracture plane in rocks, generally at right angles to the bedding of sedimentary rocks and variously oriented in igneous and metamorphic rocks, commonly arranged in two or more sets of parallel intersecting systems.
    Generally speaking, joints in granite are separable into original joint formed in concretion period of magma and epigenetic joint formed by external forces.
    In this area, there are three groups of joints visible to the visitors. The first group is approximately vertical with smooth surfaces of siliceous film formed by epidotization, belonging to compressor-shearing joint. The second group is featured in almost horizontal arrangement, belonging to tensile joint and the third group is arranged in inclination, belonging to shearing joint.
    Schistose quartz vein formed by strong compression, making minerals inside arranged in a certain direction.
    Rock-collapse; Collapsed rocks and surface were produced due to long action of gravitation in the slope.
     Pinnate joints; They are a group of parallel and obliquely-arranged joints representing a series of tiny shearing fissures formed by shear stress and intersected with the principal shearing surfaces at small angles.
     Fault step. It is a stepped surface that results from movement along a fault plane and can be used to determine the movement properties of the fault.
    It is a kind of acid magma that became cold gradually underground and then uplifted on the surface by tectonic movement.
    The Lantian granite is located in between of the Huaxu-Liangtou Fault and the Tieluzi-Sanyao Fault. It extends 31km at east-west direction and with a width ranging from 2 to 9km. It occurs as a batholith, covering an area of 154km2 and isotopic dating back to 115 million years. In the south side of the rock body is the Tietonggou Formation in intrusive and/or fault relationships, in the north side is a piedmont fault, and in the east is the Taihua Group or the Zhangjiaping rock body in intrusive contact, in which a migmatitic zone with a width 10 to 20m is concluded. According to the relationships and the lithology, the formation of the rock body can be divided into two times of intrusion, the first time of which was porphyritic adamellite, distributed in the south of the rock body, which is the major rock body in the Wangshunshan scenic area; the second time was medium-fine sized granite and adamellite, distributed in the east and the north part of the rock body, which intruded into the former porphyritic granite.
    During the Yanshanian period, the Lantian granite suffered strong tectonic compression from south and north directions, forming closed vertical joints and faults with different directions and sizes.
     The Wangshunshan scenic area is abundant in varieties of biologic species, including 870 species of forest plants with evident vertical zonation in relation to the elevation, such as scenic forests of lacebark pine, arborvitae, red birch and Sims Azalea.
    Shuilu Buddhist Nunnery is located at the foot of Mountain Wangshun in Lantian County of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, about 50 kilometers southwest to the town of Xi'an city. It was first built in the Six Dynasties period (AD 222-589) and in Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), it was a part of the Buddhist temple complex in combination with the Upper and the Lower Wuzhen Temples. Surrounded by waters on three sides, the Shuilu Nunnery is located in a place like an isolated island. The name of Shuilu means land and water in Chinese because of the waters on its three sides and a green hill.
     Elaborate and rare painted earth mural sculptures in an excellent state of preservation have made Shuilu Buddhist Nunnery won a great renown, thus being also nominated as the second China’s Dunhuang. Shuilu Buddhist Nunnery, one of key historical relics under state protection, possesses in the main hall a fine collection of over 3,700 pieces of earth mural sculptures that can be traced back to more than 1,000 years. The colorful mural statues in the main hall are the most attractive, which combined painting, altorilievo, rilievo and engraving together and covered over 3,700 painted earth mural sculptures of characters and all things of nature on walls, beams of roof and pillars. They are almost lifelike in appearance and vivid, showing a magnificent panorama. The most attractive is the three grand Buddhist sculptures with backlighting of a dazzlingly brilliant and splendid in green and gold, in which four smaller Buddhist sculptures, eight images of Buddha, Four Heavenly Guardians and eight protectors are involved, like a band of the western Elysium.
     The colorful mural statues in the main hall are the most attractive and those from the north to the south walls are in interlinked style. Those delicate mural statues have illustrated the biography of Skamania, demonstrating the great imagination and the eminent artistic skills of Chinese ancient statuaries.
    The Lantian Homo erectus is one of the representatives of the late period of Pithecanthrope. The age of the skull fossil of the Lantian Homo erectus is known as about 1.15Ma. It was unearthed from the lower part of the middle Pleistocene Xiehu Formation. The lithology is the light-yellow loessial silty clay. This area is
    adjacent to the Bahe River and close to a continuous edge of the north piedmont of Qinling mountains. The leading edge of the area is 100 meters higher than the river beds. The southeast end of the Bahe River extends into Qinling Mountains and the northwest end to the Weihe graben plain. The favorable geographic conditions that were easier to fetch water and to get food were suitable for Homo erectus settlement in this area.
    The mandible fossil of the Lantian Homo erectus was excavated in Chenjiawo village, which was aged back to 600,000-700,000 years. Up to now, there have been more than 200 pieces of stone tools found in the heritage site, in which scraper, hack hammer, pointed utensils, stone pieces with used tracks and stone balls are included and isotopic dating gives the age of the oldest one over 1.327 m.y., 200,000 years earlier than the Lantian Homo erectus. At present, the heritage site of the Lantian Homo erectus has been under considerable protection.