Anhui Huangshan Scenic Area, a national 5A-level scenic spot, a world cultural and natural heritage, a world geopark, one of the three mountains and five mountains, and a mountain-type national key scenic spot, is famous for its "four uniques" of strange pines, strange stones, sea of clouds and hot springs

Yellow Mountain, the pride of the sky, the treasure of the country, the wonder of the world, the swan song of nature. It is a world cultural heritage, a world natural heritage, a global geopark, a mountainous national key scenic spot, and a natural beauty of world significance. Together with the Yangtze River, the Great Wall and the Yellow River, it is a symbol of the Chinese nation, and is known as "a fairyland on earth" and "the first strange mountain in the world". Xu Xiake, a great traveler and geographer of the Ming Dynasty, climbed the Yellow Mountain twice, saw the victory of the Yellow Mountain, and sighed as "the wonder of life". People asked: "Where is the strangest place to travel through the mountains and rivers of the four seas?" Xu replied: "There is no Yellow Mountain at home and abroad, and there is no mountain in the world to climb the Yellow Mountain, and there is no mountain in the world!" ”

Huangshan Mountain, located in the territory of Huangshan City in the south of Anhui Province, is about 40 kilometers long from north to south, about 30 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of about 1,200 square kilometers, and is continuously located between Huangshan District, Huizhou District and Xiuning and Yixian four districts and counties. The Huangshan Scenic Area covers an area of 160.6 square kilometers and is located in the territory of the Huangshan District. Its range starts from the Yellow Lion Tudang in the east, reaches the foot of Xiaoling in the west, reaches Tangkou in the south, and reaches Erlong Bridge in the north. The geographical coordinates of the central location are 30°11′ north latitude and 118°10′ east longitude. Extending from northeast to southwest, Huangshan is the watershed of the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River in southern Anhui.

Yellow Mountain was called Yishan in ancient times, because the color of the peak rock is blue and black, and it is named after looking like Cangdai from afar. Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor made alchemy here and became an immortal. During the Jingyou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Yellow Mountain Picture Classic" contains: Tang Xuanzong believed in Taoism, and especially changed to Huangshan on June 17 of the sixth year of Tang Tianbao (747).

Yellow Mountain is famous for the strange pine, strange stone, sea of clouds, hot springs "four uniques" in the world, the majestic fantasy and danger, the changes are endless, the scenery is changed step by step, and the eyes are involved in painting. The majesty of Taidai, the steepness of Huashan, the smoke and clouds of Hengyue, the waterfall of Kuanglu, the coolness of Emei, the clever stone of Yandang, and the Yellow Mountain all have both.

The beautiful scenery of Yellow Mountain, with the peak as the body. The magic of nature makes the thousand peaks of the Yellow Mountain compete with each other, splitting the ground and the sky, the mountains are undulating, the cliffs are grandiose, and the peaks of the Yellow Mountain are like the sea, and the overall situation is majestic and magnificent. "Yellow Mountain Picture Scripture" only take 36 peaks, "give a good name", the first letter, stalagmites and other peaks, although the scenery is beautiful, but not in the 36 peaks, so, the descendants named 36 peaks again, a total of 72 peaks, the actual is far more than this. In the vast sea of peaks, Lotus Peak is the first peak, with an altitude of 1,864 meters. The high Guangming Peak, 1860 meters above sea level, and the steep Tiandu Peak, 1810 meters above sea level, stand tall with the magnificent Lotus Peak, standing majestically in the center of the scenic spot. Chen Yi once summarized the characteristics of the peaks and peaks of Huangshan Mountain as follows: "the front mountain is majestic, and the back mountain is beautiful".

Yellow Mountain is also known as the treasure house of animals and plants. Due to the superior natural environment, the animal and plant resources of Huangshan Mountain are particularly abundant, with famous flowers and trees, rare birds and beasts, a wide variety of species, and extremely high teaching and scientific research value. The forest coverage rate is 84.7%, and the vegetation coverage rate is 93%. According to statistics, there are 222 families, 826 genera, 1805 species of higher plants in Huangshan, the famous ones are Huangshan pine, Huangshan rhododendron, Tiannu flower, Mulotus, yew, southern hemlock, etc., and 21 species of rare and endangered plants are listed in the national protection of more than three levels. The peak of the mountain is steep, and the vertical zoning of plants is obvious. The top of the mountain breeds boreal plants, such as rhododendron, Tiannu flower, and Quercus huangshan; The mountainside is full of temperate plants, such as Quercus microphylla, Plasterum alba, and Oxnose plug; At the foot of the mountain, subtropical plants are propagated, such as purple orchid, lotus, magnolia, etc. There are 297 species of wild vertebrates, mainly including short-tailed monkeys, Sumatra antelopes (four elephants), giant salamanders (baby fish), civets, sika deer, roe deer, deer, muntjac and jade-faced civets. Among them, there are 176 species of birds, mainly white pheasant, brown noise thrush (eight-tone bird), red-billed lovebird, gray magpie and so on. There are 32 species of rare animals under national second-class or above protection.

Huangshan not only has a peculiar natural landscape, but also has a profound cultural heritage. Since the Tang Dynasty, people have visited the Yellow Mountain, built the Yellow Mountain, sang the Yellow Mountain, and left a rich cultural heritage. The cultural landscape resources of Huangshan mainly include religious culture, ancient architecture, cliff carvings, celebrity travels and a large number of literature and art with poems, lyrics, songs, fu, paintings, and images as the main contents.

"There are many famous mountain monks in the world", and Huangshan is no exception, and its early development is closely related to religion. In the old Taoist books of the Tang Dynasty, the story of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor coming to the mountain to refine the pill and ascending to heaven is widely circulated. Buddhism was introduced to Huangshan in the Jin Dynasty, and there was an ancient temple of Xuanyuan under the Xuanyuan Peak. From the Tang Dynasty to the Republic of China, more than 100 temples have been built, of which 17 have been built or given plaques by the emperor. Among the temples, Xiangfu Temple, Ciguang Temple, Cuiwei Temple and Throwing Bowl Zen Temple, known as the "Four Great Jungles". Among the disciples of Huangshan in the past dynasties, there are more people who can be good at poetry and painting, the poet monk Daoyun in the Tang Dynasty, the poet monk in the Ming Dynasty, Yuanbai, the sea transport, the barberry hermitage, ignorance, etc., the poetry and painting monk in the Qing Dynasty gradually Jiang, Shitao, Xuezhuang, Haiyue, Hongmei, etc., all have excellent works handed down.

There are more than 280 cliff stone carvings in Huangshan in the past dynasties, including more than 40 inscriptions. It is distributed in the whole mountain beside various scenic spots and tourist trails, mainly concentrated in hot springs, Yuping Tower, Yungu Temple, Shixin Peak, Lion Peak, Lotus Peak and Songgu Nunnery, etc., with hot springs, Beihai and Yupinglou scenic spots are the most. Most of these stone carvings are carved on the cliffs, and the small ones are only an inch, and the large ones are several zhang long. Seal, subordinate, line, Kai, grass all have both, exquisite, simple, elegant, set calligraphy and stone carving art in one. The content is very extensive, or praise the scenery, or the title of the travel, or the scenery to express nostalgia, or the words of the object, or the historical news, or write religious legends.

Huangshan is also the birthplace of the Huangshan School of painting. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, painters such as Yanjiang, Shi Tao, Meiqing, and Xuezhuang "searched all the peaks to make drafts" and founded the landscape painting school with Huangshan as the main object of expression. They live in seclusion in Huangshan, learn from nature, and constantly absorb nutrients to enrich their creative skills. The Huangshan School of Painting, the brush and ink are dignified and concise, the composition is bright and beautiful, the style is clear and tragic, the meaning is deep and clear, it is unique in the painting world, and it has lasted for hundreds of years.

Throughout the ages, there are countless celebrities who have visited Huangshan. While appreciating the scenery and cultivating their sentiments, they also left behind many literary and artistic works, including poems, songs, essays, travelogues, and historical records. In the 1,200 years from the Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, there are more than 20,000 poems that have been handed down so far. Li Bai once traveled to the mountains during the Tang Tianbao period, leaving "four thousand thousand Yellow Mountain, thirty-two lotus peaks." Danya sandwich stone pillar, Hanlian golden hibiscus". Xu Xiake visited Huangshan twice, and in the two famous "Diary of Huangshan Travel", he had a unique insight to approve the status of Huangshan among the major famous mountains. In the spring of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), Zhou Enlai climbed the mountain accompanied by Ye Ting, the commander of the New Fourth Army. In 1963, when Chen Yi, Vice Premier of the State Council, accompanied the delegation to visit the mountain in China, the handwritten "Yellow Mountain" plaque is now engraved on the south gate of Yellow Mountain. In 1965, Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh recuperated in Huangshan for more than half a month, in addition to naming a number of scenic spots, but also happily inscribed "Huangshan scenery is good". From July 11 to 15, 1979, Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China's reform, opening up and modernization, inspected Huangshan on foot and gave many important instructions on the development of tourism in Huangshan. From May 17 to 19, 2001, General Secretary Jiang Zemin, the core of the third-generation leadership of the Communist Party of China, inspected Huangshan and wrote poems praising "Huangshan is a strange mountain in the world" and "a wonderful scenery at a glance".