The famous saying "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" has not been found for a long time. In the textual research of past dynasties, some people think that Fan Chengda in Song Dynasty said that "the beauty of Guilin should be the best in the world". Some people think that the sentence "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" comes from the article "Rebuilding Xiangnan Building" by Zengbo Li, a history of Guizhou in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

Modern patriot Wu Mai once quoted this poem:

Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, and Yangshuo is the best in the world.

The peaks float in the mountains, and there is no mountain, no water and no ecstasy.