The Huangguoshu or Yellow Fruit Tree Waterfall is listed as the most impressive waterfall in China, also is one of the well-known waterfalls in the world.
The yellow fruit tree waterfall is 137 kilometer from the provincial capital city Guiyang, situated in the west Guizhou Province. The yellow fruit tree waterfall is 68 meters in height, 6 meters normally. However, it can be 74 meters in height, 81 meters in width when the summer fall flood rises suddenly. The waterfall looks like Yellow River with imposing landscape. The Valley Bang Thunder, about ten miles, visitors can always hear the water roaring in it; As a result of the fluent formidable impulse, the mist which splashes may fill the air above several hundred meters. The tourist says "the silver rain to sprinkle the golden street".
For several hundred years, the yellow fruit tree waterfall continuously praised in surprise for many writers scholars. Why does this waterfall get the name Yellow Fruit Tree Waterfall, Huang Guo Shu in Chinese? According to the folklore, is because there is big Huang Jiao Shu tree near the waterfall, according to the local pronunciation, and the fruit Guo in Chinese is the same as Jiao, therefore the people called it yellow fruit tree, this is one of the legendaries to acquire its name.
