Reed Flute Cave is a 240 meter limestone cave with three entrances in Guilin, Guangxi, China, decorated inside with stalactites, stalagmites and other karst formations that have been given names such as Crystal Palace, Fish Tail Peak and Dragon Pagoda. An underground lake inside the cave is lit with multicolored lighting for visitors, and one stalactite is popularly associated with the Monkey King Sun Wukong from the classic novel Journey to the West. The cave takes its name from reeds that once grew at its entrance and were used to make flutes. More than seventy inscriptions of poems and travelogues are preserved on its walls in ink, the oldest dating to 792 AD in the Tang dynasty, and the cave itself was rediscovered in the 1940s by refugees fleeing Japanese troops before becoming one of Guilin's best known tourist attractions.
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