China Mountain Attractions
Spectacular mountain scenery of China attracts many visitors, climbers and adventurers. The mountains are known Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, famous for its spectacular rocks, oddly shaped pines, hot springs and the sea of clouds, the famous five sacred mountains, Mount Taishan in Shandong, Hengshan Mountain in Shanxi Province, Songshan Mountain in Henan province, Huashan mountain Hengshan Mountain in Hunan and Shaanxi; sacred Buddhist mountains, like Mount Emei in Sichuan Province and other famous mountains, such as Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi and Fujian Wuyi Mountain.
China is home to many sacred mountains.
The Five Great Mountains (五岳 wǔyuè), associated with Taoism:
Mount Tai (泰山), Shandong Province (1,545 meters)
Mount Hua (华山), Shaanxi Province (1,997 meters)
Mount Heng (Hunan) (衡山), Hunan Province (1,290 meters)
Mount Heng (Shanxi) (恒山), Shanxi Province (2,017 meters)
Mount Song (嵩山）, Henan Province, where the famous Shaolin Temple (少林寺) is located (1,494 meters)
The Four Sacred Mountains (四大佛教名山 sìdà fójiào míngshān), associated with Buddhism:
Mount Emei (峨嵋山), Sichuan Province (3,099 meters)
Mount Jiuhua (九华山), Anhui Province (1,342 meters)
Mount Putuo (普陀山), Zhejiang Province (297 meters, an island)
Mount Wutai (五台山), Shanxi Province (3,058 meters)
The three main sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism:
Mount Kailash, Tibet (5,656 meters), known as Gang Rinpoche in Tibetan, is also one of the holiest mountains in Hinduism and is visited by many Hindu pilgrims
Kawa Karpo
Amnye Machen
There are also several other well-known mountains. In China, many mountains have temples, even if they are not especially sacred sites:
Mount Qingcheng (青城山), Sichuan Province
Mount Longhu (龙虎山), Jiangxi Province
Mount Lao (崂山), Shandong Province
Mount Wuyi (武夷山), Fujian Province, a major tourist/scenic site with many tea plantations
Mount Everest, on the Tibet/Nepal border, world’s highest mountain
Mount Huang (黄山) (Yellow Mountain), in Anhui province, with scenery and temples
Mount Wudang (武当山), near Danjiangkou in Hubei, famous for kung fu
Changbaishan/Paektusan (Chinese:长白山 Korean:???), the most sacred mountain in the world to ethnic Manchus and Koreans, located on the border with North Korea.
