Chinese Landscape

Chinese Landscape

Huangshan, also called Yellow Mountain, consistes of 36 separate peaks, rising above 1,800 m. It is located in southern Anhui Province and covers an area of 250 kilometers. Huangshan is famous throughout Chinese artistic history. It represents the typical mountain in Chinese paintings. Frequently shrouded in mist, many peaks appear to float on clouds. Therefore, they have very fanciful names such as 18 Arhats Worshipping the South Sea, Lotus Flower Peak, Celestial Capital, Paint Brush, etc.

Landscape

The Landscape of Huangshan is fantastic. Huangshan in China is the most well-known for its breathtaking scenery and beautiful landscapes. As a Chinese old saying says, "There is no need to visit any other mountains after touring Huangshan." Its four unique scenes of odd-shaped pine trees, rocks, hot springs,

and sea of clouds have attracted many tourists from home and abroad. Huangshan has been the one of the best travel destinations in China since ancient time. It is also a frequent subject of Chinese traditional paintings and literature. Today, Huangshan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of China's most popular tourist destinations. The spectacular landscape of Huangshan attracts great interest to many artists, photographers and painters. The development of walking tracks and cable cars makes this landscape accessible to most active travellers.

Hiking

Lofty peaks, steep valleys, winding streams and brooks, luxuriant plants and trees offer Huangshan a pleasant weather and a good condition for hiking. Its charming scenery changing during different seasons. Yellow Mountain's wonders are completely the masterpiece of nature, a pure natural beauty that amazes most tourists. An ancient tourist once remarked "Huangshan Mountain's beauty is unparalleled on earth." What a great praise Huangshan Mountain has won! Hiking on Yellow Mountain is the most popular thing there. Many Tourist make a hiking tour in the early morning to view the gorgeous sunrise, and appreciate the whole mountain in the wonderful cloud sea. Natural lakes, great waterfalls, streams and wonderful Buddha halo will catch your eyes during your hiking journey. Yellow Mountain is especially famous for its beautiful pine trees, jagged rocks in strange shape, bubbling hot springs and rapidly changing clouds, which form a unique spectacle scenery that will enchant the tourists and make them linger on and on.

Winter in Yellow Mountain

"Four seasons are all nice at Yellow Mountain (Mount Huangshan), but the scene in winter is more attractive." In winter, numerous ravines and peaks are covered with ice or snow. Yellow Mountain is a world of frost and ice with silver boughs and rocks everywhere.The glittering and translucent spectacle in the sunshine resembles ice...

When was the last time you used chop sticks, for something other than eating Chinese food?

I.E.: pick nose, poke spouse, play with cats, set animal trap in yard like Bear Grylls, unclog something, etc..

POLL: Landscape >OR< Portrait?

Putting my hair up... I failed miserably.. broke them in half and threw them away...

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LANDSCAPE all the way! Woo woo!