• Huangshan

• Name in Chinese characters: 黄山
• Name in Pinyin: Huángshān
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  General Overview

  Huang Shan (the Yellow Mountain) is renowned for its scenery and has been in China since the 16th century when it began to receive widespread acclaim in works of art and literature.

  Huang Shan owes much of its imposing beauty to dramatic events some 100 million years ago when tectonic upheavals lifted this area, draining the Yangtse Sea as it did so. The many folds dating from this period have subsequently suffered heavy erosion from water, wind and ice (the higher peaks were covered in glaciers for some time) leaving us with a wide range of interesting rock features.

  The scenery at Huangshan is also noted for strangely-shaped trees. The higher peaks are home to a species of pine named after the mountain, with more than one thousand other plant varieties on the slopes below. A number of trees are famous enough to have been named; often because of a deformed shape but also occasionally to mark a particularly precarious position.

  There are some 300 species of vertebrates living within the park area. A few of these, such as the Cloud Leopard, are endangered and receive the highest levels of state protection.

  There are now over 60 temples on the slopes of Huang Shan. The first were probably the Fahai Meditation Temple and the Wonshu Temple, built by the monk Pumen.

  Huang Shan was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990.

  Attractions For Visitors

  Huang Shan is noted for 4 main features:

  Strangely-shaped peaks and rocks: the three highest peaks are the best known: Lotus Peak, Bright Summit Peak and Capital of Heaven Peak; in the nearly 300 square kilometres of park there are many others.

  Strangely-shaped trees: as in the top photo;

  Sunrises: especially where these are observed with one of the peaks in silhouette; and

  a Sea Of Clouds: Consistent weather helps here with some 200 days every year being cloudy. Those high up can often look down on the clouds with the peaks resembling islands in a wispy sea.

  

  One other phenomenon noted by lucky visitors is known as Buddha's Halo. If the light is in the correct position, behind the observer casting a shadow down onto a Sea of Clouds, then that person will see their own shadow (though others will not) and they will see it with a light glow around their head.

  Visitors may also want to include one or two of the local temples and, perhaps, some relaxation at a hot spring, especially if they have suffered been too many steps.

  
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