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The WaHuang Palace scenic area is located in the Zhonghuang Mountain of Suobu town in Shexian County, Hebei Province, 6 kilometers from the county town. Wahuang Temple is the place where it is said that Nuwa created humans from clay and mended the sky with stones. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national scenic spot, a national AAAAA-level scenic spot, and one of the five major ancestral temples in China. It is the largest Nuwa worship site in China and is known as the "Huaxia Ancestral Temple".

The WaHuang Palace scenic area is located on a Neolithic site from 10,000 years ago. It covers an area of 5 square kilometers and consists of five parts: the entrance area, the Butian Garden, the Butian Lake, Nuwa Pavilion, and the Butian Valley. Since the Han Dynasty, The WaHuang Palace has had a three-building temple. The existing ancient sites include the Northern Qi Dynasty stone carvings, the Tang Dynasty inscriptions, the Song Dynasty brick walls, the Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, etc. It also has natural landscapes such as forests, valleys, gardens, and water systems. Among them, the Northern Qi Dynasty cliff carvings, the main building Nuwa Hall, and the Nuwa worship ceremony are the three treasures of the scenic area. They are famous at home and abroad for their "world's first collection of wall scriptures", "living buildings and hanging temples", and "national intangible cultural heritage". It is an important base for the study of our root culture.