Tianmen Fox Fairy Show
天门狐仙
A large-scale outdoor musical that uses the Tianmen Gorge as a natural stage, telling the love story of Liu Hai the woodcutter and a fox fairy.
'Tianmen Fox Fairy: New Liu Hai Chops Firewood' is staged in an open-air theater in Tianmen Gorge at the foot of Tianmen Mountain. Based on the Hunan folk legend of 'Liu Hai Chopping Wood', it uses real mountains, the gorge, and the night sky as its backdrop, along with hundreds of performers, lighting, and aerial stunts. It is China's first natural-landscape musical. The show runs about 70 minutes, and tickets cost about 238 to 500 yuan. In peak season it starts at around 8:30 p.m. The theater is on the south side of the Tianmen Mountain scenic area, at the foot of the mountain in the direction of Tianmen Temple. From downtown it is about 40 minutes by taxi, and it is usually scheduled for the evening after visiting Tianmen Mountain. The valley gets cold at night, so bring a jacket. The show is generally suspended in winter.
Opening hours
Peak season, nightly at about 20:30
Nearby sights
- Tianmen Cave & Heaven-Linking Avenue
- Tianmen Mountain
- Tianmen Mountain Glass Skywalk
- Tianmen Mountain Temple
- Tianmen Mountain Cableway
- Dayong Ancient Town & Seventy-Two Qi Lou
- Tujia Folk Customs Park
- Puguang Temple