Jingshan Hill, Mountain in Sunjiaji Subdistrict, China.
Jingshan Hill is a small hill located in the Sunjiaji area of Shouguang, rising to about 50 meters above sea level. The terrain offers views across the surrounding flat landscape and is accessible by local paths.
The name Jingshan predates the late Qing administrative reform, when one of the 15 districts of Shouguang was called Jingshan District. During the Republic of China era people dug around the stone without reaching its base, and in 1958 a 10-metre-deep pit was excavated nearby, still without finding the bottom. In September 1983 the Shouguang county government listed it as a county-level protected cultural relic.
The name Jingshan predates the late Qing administrative reform, when one of the 15 districts of Shouguang was named Jing Shan District. In March 2018 the rock went viral online as China's smallest mountain, and visitors trampled a footpath through the surrounding farmland.
Jingshan sits in farmland between Sunjiaji and Majiazhuang villages, about 8 km southwest of Shouguang city; visitors reach it on foot along a path worn through the fields since it went viral in 2018. Deep digging near the stone is prohibited, as is construction in its vicinity and quarrying of the rock.
In 1958, diggers opened a pit 10 metres deep beside the stone and still found no bottom, so the work was abandoned. Whether Jingshan is an exposed ancient buried hill or a huge boulder lodged underground has never been settled.
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