What are the Three Mountains and Five Mounts?

The sentiment of the descendants

From the Ming Dynasty Xu Xiake when he visited Mount Huangshan, he said, "I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but I think it's a great idea. Xu Xiake exclaimed when he visited Huangshan Mountain

"There is no mountain as famous as Huangshan Mountain in Huizhou, both at home and abroad.

Mount Huangshan, there is no mountain in the world, the view stops!"

This is where "There is no mountain in the world" comes from.

The Monkey's View of the Sea

The formation of Mount Huangshan

was the result of magmatic activity during the geologic past,

and the main landscape of the region

is the granite peaks and forests landscape.

"The majesty of Mount Tai, the steepness of Mount Huashan, the beauty of Mount Hengshan, the waterfalls of Mount Lu, the exquisite rocks of Yandang, and the coolness of Emei."

Because of these characteristics of other famous mountains,

Huangshan is also known as "the world's first strange mountain! " .

Huangshan Peaks

The main peak of Mount Huangshan, Lianlian Peak, is 1864 meters above sea level,

and is known as one of the three main peaks along with Lightning Peak and Tendu Peak.

Tendu Peak

The strange pines, rocks, sea of clouds and hot springs are collectively known as the "four greats" and

Welcoming Pine has become one of the most famous pines of the Oriental rituals.

Welcoming Pine has become a symbol of oriental etiquette and culture.

The Sea of Clouds

Yellow Mountain was once known as Yixian Mountain due to the greenish-black color of the rocks and the distant view of Cangdai,

in history,

the renaming of Yellow Mountain originated from the legend of Emperor Xuanyuan,

again. Later, the mountain became the location of today

The origin of the name of the city of Huangshan.

Welcoming Pines

Yandang Mountain

"Famous mountains on the sea, the best in the world"

Yandang Mountain

is a volcanic lava mountain, which is the most famous mountain in the world. is a natural museum of volcanic magma action.

It is characterized by a huge thickness of rhyolitic volcanic rocks.

As a relic of volcanic action,

the geological history of Yandang Mountain is very complex,

two large-scale volcanic formations and resurrections,

which is also very rare among the many volcanic relics along the southeast coast of China

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Yandang Mountain

Yandang Mountain is famous for its beautiful landscape,

in which Lingfeng Night Scene, Lingyan Flying Ferry can be called the best view,

often called "the mountain of the fairyland" by the world.

Yandang Lingfeng

Three Stacked Springs on Mount Lu

In contrast to the elegant and graceful nature of the "Three Mountains,"

the "Five Mountains" are much more

The story of "Three Mountains" is fascinating, while "Five Mountains" is more like the official history, which has been officially recognized since long time ago.

The center of the ancient state order was not the geometric center of the boundaries of the territory, but varied with the location of the capital city, so the "Five Mountains" were set relative to the location of the capital city of the feudal dynasty.

About as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, "Er Ya" in the "Shi Shan" and "Shangshu - Dazhuan" have recorded the "Five Mountains" are "Dai (Tai) Mountain, Huo (Heng) Mountain, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Song Gao (Songshan) "

China's history, many local forces or the parochial kingdom of the "Five Mountains" have been looking for worship, in the Central Plains unification of the dynasty, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the successive emperors have been on the "Five Mountains"

The Five Mountains are the most important mountains in the world. The emperor of the successive dynasties since Han Wu Di carried out a very high specification of feudalization and sacrifice:

Tang Dynasty sealed the "five mountains" as "king", Song Dynasty added as "emperor", Yuan Dynasty continued to add as "king", and Yuan Dynasty continued to add as "emperor".

The Five Sacred Mountains of the Tang Dynasty were named "King", the Song Dynasty was named "Emperor", the Yuan Dynasty continued to be named "Emperor", and the Ming Dynasty was named "God".

. World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site.

"Majestic, dangerous, strange, beautiful, mysterious, mysterious, open"

The tectonic movement has not only given Taishan a natural landscape,

but also created the majestic and simple Taishan stone - gneiss. strong>.

Taishan has a large number of complex geological formations, typical geological relics,

and the oldest strata in North China.

As a sub-tectonic unit of the North China Plateau,

the Taishan region has a geological evolutionary history of almost 3 billion years since the Archaic period,

and it is a natural laboratory for exploring the mysteries of the early history of the Earth.

Colorado Creek

The sky was too high to reach, and it was sacrificed on Mount Tai in order to be close to the gods.

Confucius also "climbed Mount Tai and the world is small" .

A large number of humanistic monuments,

making Taishan the epitome of oriental politics and culture,

and also a place where the Chinese "unity of heaven and mankind" thought.

Mount Hua

Mount Hua in the Western Mountains, also known as Taihua.

Overlooking the Yellow River in the north, connected to the Qinling Mountains in the south, east of Jin and Yu, and west of Chang'an,

it is the gateway from the northwest to the Central Plains in history.

The main peak of Mount Hua is 2,160 meters above sea level, which is the top of the "Five Mountains".

West Mount Hua

Mount Hua has five peaks,

South Peak Lying Wild Goose, East Peak Sunrise,

West Peak Lotus,

North Peak Yuntai,

Middle Peak Jade Maiden,

the five peaks surrounded by the shape of a lotus flower.

Western peak of Mount Hua

"Mountain no stone is not strange, no pure stone is not too strange,

Mount Hua cut into ten miles and five thousand ren, a stone also!" What the ancients said is that Huashan stone strange.

Scientific research agrees with this viewpoint,

The formation of Mount Hua can be understood as follows:

Composed of a complete and large body of granite rock,

its prototype was formed about 120 million years ago.

The granite rock was deformed by the internal and external forces of the earth,

and then weathered and eroded by the water,

eventually forming a number of knife-sharpened, towering peaks.

Huashan Sword Study

"Who will rely on the heavenly sword, cut out the peaks of the heavenly peaks"

Granite Peaks

so that Mount Huashan enjoys the "strange and dangerous the world's first" reputation!

But because Mount Huashan is too dangerous,

so few people climbed it before the Tang Dynasty,

After the Tang Dynasty, Taoism flourished,

and the Taoists gradually carved a dangerous path along the valley on the northern slopes,

which eventually led to the formation of the "A Road to Mount Huashan from Ancient times " .

Mount Heng

Mount Heng in Nanyue, also known as Mount Huo in history,

is famous for its peaks rising up to form a peak-like mountain landscape,

and is known as "the only one of the five mountains".

Hengshan Sea of Clouds

Hengshan Mountain is located in the east-central part of Hunan Province,

The main body of the mountain consists of Yanshan-age granite,

which has been washed away and denuded over the course of 200 million years of geological history,

developing into a typical southern Chinese granite.

Main peak of Mount Hengshan

Within the Nanyue district,

there are 20 peaks with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and 17 peaks with an altitude of 500 to 1,000 meters,

among which, the main peak Zhurong Peak is 1300 meters above sea level.

These "South Heavenly Pillars" groups tower over the

Xiangzhong Basin at an altitude of less than 100 meters,

making the mountains even more pronounced with high valleys and deep, dangerous peaks and steep slopes.

Hengshan Zhurong Peak

The reason why Nanyue is named Hengshan,

because it is located in the wing of the twenty-eight stars of the square star of China,

"Degree should be guiheng," like the scale.

The ability to weigh the heavens and the earth, the ability to "Ambassadors of the world",

so the name "Hengshan".

Because of the square star next to a main life "Changsha star",

and Hengshan ancient belonged to Changsha,

The Hanging Temple on the mountain,

formerly known as the "Xuankong Pavilion"

was built in 491 A.D.

it is a unique temple combining the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism,

it is also known as the "Pavilion of the Heavenly Creatures",

and is also known as the "Pavilion of the Heavenly Creatures",

which is the most famous temple in China.


The temple is also known for its "high altitude" and "low altitude" .

The geological community is also known as the "Five Generations of the Same Family. "five generations of the same family" .

The Songyang Movement, 2.5 billion years ago

The Zhongyue Movement, 1.8 billion years ago

The Shaolin Movement, 800 million years ago.

These three intense global mountain building and land building movements took place here,

all left behind rich and clear geological remains,

Songshan is also known as

documenting encyclopedia of the evolution of the Earth.

Songshan Clouds and Mists

So what are the Three Mountains and Five Mountains?

In China, the Three Mountains and Five Mountains

are not just those geological ruins that create magical, infinite scenery,

are not just a few historical mountains that split the earth and the sky, but rather, they are the bearer of the natural and humane

But it carries a thousand flavors of nature and humanity,

melting in the national blood, embodied in the national sentiment,

engraved in the memory of civilization.

Photo by: Zhao Hongshan