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The Mystic World of Shanshui, Mount Huangshan

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Mount Huangshan in the Anhui province of China

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was inscribed to the World Heritage List for its magnificent landscape

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and significant contribution to Chinese art

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and culture. Mount Huangshan, or Yellow Mountain,

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is named after a legendary Chinese sovereign, Huangdi,

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also known as the Yellow Emperor. It is said that he became a hermit on this

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mountain

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and searched for enlightenment and immortality. These stone steps took over

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1,500 years to build.

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There are said to be more than 60,000 in total.

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They're called the Hundred Steps into the Clouds.

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Mount Huangshan is the name for a 72-peak mountain range.

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Its grandeur and its rocks became the source of legend.

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Lianhua Peak is the highest in the region.

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This small rock on top of the peak

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is known as Monkey Rock, owing to the legend of a monkey who fell in love with

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a girl from a village at the foot of the mountain.

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Pine trees protruding from the rock crevices

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are the local Huangshan Pine.

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Mount Huangshan has fascinated many intellectuals, writers and painters.

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Li Po, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote,

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Once I was on its lofty summit, admiring

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Tianmu Pine below. The place is still traceable where the immortal,

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before ascending to heaven, made elixir out of jade.

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Several villages at the foot of Mount Huangshan

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retain the old-time atmosphere of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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Traditional old buildings are perfectly preserved in Hongkun.

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The village is also inscribed as World Heritage.

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This garden has a miniature

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Shanshui mountain water landscape.

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It is a bonsai version of the Huangshan Mountains.

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A local painter Xu Feng has been drawing Huangshan Mountains for 30 years.

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He believes the ever-changing mountain landscape represents

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all elements of the universe.

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Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river, said Lao Tzu.

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Mount Huangshan has been a great source of inspiration,

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a place where people have thought about the universe and our place in it.