White Crane Ridge is located on the western part of Fuling town. Ancient water level landmarks, in the form of fourteen numbers of stonefish, craved complete with fins and scales were found here. One of the oldest stonefish could be dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) period. This rock landmark can only be seen during the spring and autumn season when the river water is at its lowest level, perhaps once in every twenty years or so. The local people said that 'when ever these stonefish appears, the harvests will be plentiful'. Inscriptions recording on the hydrology of the Yangtze River can also be found here. The name White Crane Ridge came about is base on a Tang Dynasty legend, about an elderly person who often rode on a crane, flying around this area in search for herbs to make immortality pills.Beside its historical and scientific value, ages of impressive poem inscriptions by famous poet were also found here, thus White Crane Ridge is also known as "Underwater Inscriptions". In 1993, at the state level it was declared an important historical site and a submarine museum was proposed to be build here.
