(Guest-Welcoming Pine)

Huangshan Mountain is located in the south of Anhui Province, Spanning She, Yi, Taiping and Xiuning counties. It was called Yishan Mountain in the Qin Dynasty and acquired its present name Huangshan Mountain in 747 (the 6th year of the Tang Tianbao reign). Its scenic area, covering 154 square kilometers of land, encompasses fascinating peaks, rocks, pines, cloud, springs and other rare scenes.

(Peak forest on Huangshan Mountain)

Huangshan Mountain is celebrated for having four wonderful mountain scenes: odd-shaped pines, bizarre rocks, cloud seas and hot springs. Rare geological formation and spectacular clusters of peaks are the natural characteristics of Huangshan Mountain. In the scenic area, unique grantite peaks dotting the summits and cliffs; ancient pines streching their branches in every posture, bizarre rocks with strong resemblances to whatever in your imagination; and the seas of cloud so full of unpredictable changes-they combine to unfold a large scroll of Huangshan Mountain showing movement in stanquility and vice versa. Huangshan Moutain houses rich resources of protophyte and wild animals.

("Monkeys" Watching the Sea)

The scenic area has a forest coverage of 83.4% and 1,452 species of protophytes falling into 203 families. Huangshan Mountain has a wealth of cultual heritage too. On his second visit to Huangshan Xu Xiake, noted traveller and geographer of the Ming Dynasty, exclaimed: "Huangshan Mountain in Anhui has no equal. Once on top, one finds on other match. This is the acme!" Later man made the following statement: "One vistis no mountains after the Five Sacred Mountains. And after Huangshan, one has no eye for the Five Sacred Mountain."