Huangshan: Legendary Mountain, Beauty Under Heaven

Author: Wang Lei
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The "Four Wonders" of Huangshan—unusual pines, strange rocks, sea of clouds, and hot springs—form its unique landscape. Huangshan boasts distinct seasonal scenery with a pleasant climate. Spring's vibrancy, summer's lushness, autumn's crispness, and winter's crystalline beauty all reveal the mountain's enchanting charm. The beauty of Huangshan lies in its stillness amidst motion and motion amidst stillness, with endless variations, painting scenes of grandeur, majesty, fantasy, and danger. Every part of Huangshan is filled with scenic wonders, with clear hot springs, cascading waterfalls, and ever-changing views that leave one spellbound. It is truly a "paradise on earth" and "the loveliest under heaven."
Huangshan stands in the southern part of Anhui Province (30°1′N, 118°1′E) and spans across four counties: Shexi, Yi, Taiping, and Xiuning, covering an area of 250 square kilometers, with its core scenic area covering 154 square kilometers. It is named after the legend that the Yellow Emperor once practiced Taoism and refined elixirs here. Huangshan is renowned worldwide for its magnificent, elegant, and picturesque scenery, as well as being a nationally significant scenic area rich in resources, complete in ecology, and of great scientific and ecological value. It is a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site and has been listed in the World Heritage List.
Over 100 million years ago, during the crustal movement, Huangshan rose above the surface. Later, shaped by the Quaternary glacial period, it became the magnificent and towering mountain it is today, piercing through the clouds with its peaks.