Xixia Mountain is especially famous for its beautiful autumn scenery with fire-red maple tree leaves covered covering the whole entire mountain. In ancient times, it was named "Mountain She",. It it lies 22 km northeast of Nanjing cityCity. Xixia Temple lies at the west foot of Xixia Mountain. and It has had a history of reaching more than 1,500 years. From 484 to 511 AD, 294 niches were cut on the cliffs and 515 statues of Buddha were carved. Since then people People called it "Thousands-Buddha Cliffside". Later in the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, people cut niches on the cliffs successively. Now, the number of niches is totals 294 and the statues of Buddha are over 700 in number.

Among these statues, the biggest largest one can reach dozens of meters, but while the smallest one is only several inches high. Before the Thousand-Buddha Cliffside is a dagoba, on which there are relief carvings of the Four Heavenly Guardians, statues of Buddha and Buddhist scriptures. It was built in 601 AD and is regarded as an art treasure in Buddhism.