Wa people warship Nature and believe all things on the earth have spirits. This belief is beneficial to the protection of Ximeng's ecology. Today, the Washan Mountain enjoys everlasting greens and clean rivers, known as a well preserved natural reserve.

Mengsuo's Dragon Pond near the county town is a tropical lake of 16.7 hectares, with the average depth of 11.5 meters. Around the lake are old trees of one thousand years and moss. There is a beautiful legend about Dragon Pond. It is said that a girl changed to a bird. She stayed aside the lake and carried away tree leaves falling into the lake to keep it clean all years round. According to local people, the lake only turns turbid for three days every year and then turns clean. Mengsuo's Dragon Pond is connected with a lake in Burma 35 kilometers away; they wax and wane together.

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