Yellow Cloth Shoal lies about 60 kilometers away from Guilin city. Boating downstream southward along the Li River, after passing the Mural Hill about 500 meters, peaks become steep and the river become wide and quiet. A huge yellow flagstone lying under the limpid waters can easily be seen. It is like a cloth piece and people called it Yellow Cloth Shoal. It has become very attractive to tourists because the water here is extremely clear and calm and it mirrors perfect images of the peaks in this area.

On both sides of the river, the Shoal is escorted by seven peaks in various gestures and sizes. They seem like seven elegant and graceful girls. Imaginative people give them the beautiful name of 'Seven Celestial Sisters Coming Down to Earth.' A legend goes that the seven peaks are fairy girls from the heaven who took baths in the river. When they traveled the Li River and deeply attracted by the beautiful scenery, they refused to return to the heaven when the god asked them to do that. Finally they turned into seven peaks standing besides Li River. With verdant bamboos, the green peaks under the blue sky reflected on the quiet waters create a spectacular scene. Sometimes, people doubt they see boats floating on hill tops. Many Chinese paintings and poems present this charming scene and tourists run out of their films for it.

Enticing as the reflections are, not all visitors have the good luck to fully enjoy them. On rainy days, the reflections are destroyed by raindrops and on foggy days, they are blurred by mist. Only on sunny days can the reflection be best seen and visitors can at that time fully enjoy the reflection there.