Located 20 kilometers away from Xi'an, Cuihua Mountains landside scenery national Geopark is one of the first 11 Geoparks authorized by National Land Resources Department in March, 2001 and, one of the first unveiled national parks in China as well. In the park, the highest peak Zhongnan mountain elevates above sea level by 2604 m with total area 32 km² and is one of the developed fullest from landslide. With its most complete diversity of landslide appearance, most typical structure, most intact, largest scale and highest tourism value, the park is the most unusual in China and abroad, as demonstrated with search by Shaanxi Sci-tech Information Research Institute, well-known as Chinese landslide miracle scenery and geological museum.

It was recorded in records on kingdoms in the early stage of West Zhou Dynasty that at the second year (B.C.780) during the You King period of West Zhou Dynasty there had been a great earthquake in the three valleys in the middle part of Shaanxi. And in the year the earthquake resulted in rivers dried and Qishan plateau collapsed. The same record can also be found in 'Shiji' by Sima Qian, an ancient scholar and historian of the Han Dynasty.

By classification in geological history the Cuihua Mountain belongs to Qin mountain chain, composed of diversity of metamorphic rock from middle geological Epoch, one billion years ago. The large fault from the earthquake formed in the north slope of Qin Mountain chain lowered to take shape of the plain in the middle of Shaanxi while the south slope raised to have Qin mountain peaks come to exist. For the past ten thousand years, Qin Mountain chain has been raising by 1.73-3.4 mm, that is the reason why the rock of Qin Mountain is solid with brittle properties. And this, together with long-term weathering, had accelerated the landslide to happen.