Splendid Chinese Civilization (Landscape Volume)

Author: Liu Binjie, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: China is one of the world's ancient civilizations with a rich cultural heritage, and famous mountains and rivers have become important sources of the Chinese nation's culture. Across the vast land of the beautiful China, there are countless famous mountains and rivers. Huangshan, renowned as "China's Wonder Mountain," stands tall and majestic, with its extraordinary and magnificent scenery, especially famous for its "Four Wonders." The "Four Wonders of Huangshan" are the unique pines, bizarre rocks, sea of clouds, and hot springs. The ancients praised it as "possessing the grandeur of Mount Tai, the perilousness of Mount Hua, the misty clouds of Mount Heng, the cascading waterfalls of Mount Kuanglu, the exquisite rocks of Mount Yandang, and the elegance of Mount Emei," and as "a collection of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world." No wonder the great traveler Xu Xiake, after visiting Huangshan, exclaimed, "If you have seen Mount Tai, you need not see other mountains; if you have seen Huangshan, you need not see Mount Tai." Mount Tai not only has profound cultural connotations but also rich natural beauty. If we summarize the visual characteristics of natural scenic beauty as grandeur, strangeness, peril, elegance, seclusion, mystery, and vastness, then Mount Tai, apart from being majestic in its overall and macro features, also embodies the beauty of strangeness, peril, elegance, seclusion, mystery, and vastness within its grandeur. This book provides a detailed introduction to a selection of the most famous mountains and rivers in our country.