The natural beauty of Jinzhong

Water gushes down stones on Mianshan Mountain, where the trees turn golden in the fall. Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu county, Jinzhong, is the birthplace of Qingming Festival, an important Chinese traditional festival in honor of people’s ancestors, which falls on the fourth or fifth day of the fourth lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar. [Photo/sxrb.com]

A tower stands on the snowy Shigao Mountain in Lingshi county, Jinzhong. The mountain, which is 2,532-meters high, is a national forest park with 95 percent of the mountain covered in forest. [Photo/sxrb.com]