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Mount Huangshan and its surrounding area | |
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Huangshan City, formerly called Huizhou was known as Xin'an in ancient China. Located in the south of Anhui Province, Huangshan City is an up and coming tourist city named after Mt. Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), consisting of the Mt. Huangshan scenic area, three districts and four counties. With an area of 9807 square kilometres and a population of 1.45 million, the holiday resort of Huangshan City offers spectacular scenery, numerous places of interest and fascinating local culture. | |
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The most notable scenic area covers 154 square kilometres and reaches an altitude of over 1800 metres. Once known as Mt. Yishan, this is where Emperor Xuanyuan is said to have prepared herbal medicines several thousand years ago. The mountain was renamed Huangshan in 747, the sixth year of Emperor Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Vertical slabs of granite, eroded and fractured over thousands of years, have created soaring pillars of rock and deep ravines. Swirling mists constantly envelop and then reveal the jagged rock faces. The area is famous for an indigenous pine, the pinus huangshanensis. A symbol of determination and persistence, this hardy tree makes its home in tiny crevices in the rock. With roots several times longer than its trunk, its top flattened by wind and its branches growing in one direction (with the wind or towards the sun), some of the trees in this area have become national symbols, as emotive as the impressive peaks themselves .
Huangshan's flora includes a unique species of pine tree. This one, known as "yingkesong", (Welcoming Guests Pine) is probably China's most famous. The flat-topped Huanghshan pine sinks deep roots, usually five times the length of its trunk, into tiny crevices in the rock face. Able to survive in harsh conditions, the tree symbolizes determination and persistence. .
Li Bai (701-762), one of the greatest Tang dynasty poets, discovered and named the Yellow Mountains during his sojourn here:
"Thousands of feet high tower the Yellow Mountains
With their thirty-two magnificent peaks,
Blooming like golden lotus flowers,
Amidst red crags and rock columns."
How to get to Mt. Huangshan
Anhui Province on the Chinese map
(click on the map for detailed view)
By air
Huangshan Airport is situated in Tunxi, the western suburb of Huangshan City, 71 km from the Mt. Huangshan Scenic Area. To date, there are 21 air routes linking Huangshan with Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Hefei etc. There are about 40-50 weekly charter flights between Huangshan and Hong Kong, increasing to over 90 flights during the peak travel season.
By rail
Travelling by rail is convenient & comfortable, ideal for medium and long-distance journeys. Mt. Huangshan has two railways with city connections, the Ning-Tong Railway in the north and the more important Wan-Gan (Anhui-Jiangxi ) Railway in the east.
Huangshan City has an excellent transport infrastructure and state-of-the-art tourist facilities. It offers many well-equipped hotels and three cableways to Mt. Huangshan. In 1985, the mountain was made one of China's Top Ten Scenic Locations. In 1990, it was listed as a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
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