Shennongjia is Hubei's foremost natural attraction. Forests of metasequoias and Chinese tulip trees here play host to a remarkable 1,300 species of medicinal plants, not to mention 500 species of wild animals. The most elusive of Shennongjia's denizens is the Yeren, central China's own Yeti, whose legend is corroborated or perpetuated, depending on one's view of the evidence, by the occasional finding of Gigantopithecus-sized footprints and at least 200 sightings. The name Shennongjia comes from the name of the mythical legendary emperor Shennong and jia, meaning ladder: literally, "Shennong's ladder", after a mythical rattan ladder which Shennong was said to use to climb up and down the mountain.