![]() Besides the influence of Confucianism, Mount Tai has also witnessed the development of both Buddhism and Taoism. He reached the peak, overlooking his country Lu, and sighed with one of the most philosophical words, “the world is small”. Royals, scholars, celebrities, writers, authorities, came to Mount Tai to hike, acquire inspiration, compose poems, write essays, paint, carve inscriptions, and set up monuments, let alone the greatest sage of China Confucius. During the ancient times, a total of 72 emperors were recorded as visiting it, and six of them carried out the Fengshan including Qin Shihuang (219 BC) who unified China for the first time, Wudi (110 BC) of the Han dynasty, Xuanzong (726 AD) of Tang Dynasty, etc. ![]() ![]() Hence, it has been listed as a cultural and natural heritage of UNESCO in 1987.īut far beyond this contemporary title, Mount Tai has crowned himself as the greatest of five China sacred mountains, the King of numerous Chinese mountains, symbolizing ancient Chinese civilizations and beliefs, and widely known as the sacred site of its special ceremonies and sacrifices, especially the Fengshan Ceremony. This majestic mountain is an outstanding combination of a beautiful natural landscape and a splendid process of Chinese civilization for thousands of years. It forms a unique landscape, boasting 156 peaks, 138 cliffs, 72 caves, 130 streams, 64 waterfalls, and 72 springs. With nearly 3 billion years of natural evolution, Mount Taishan aka Mount Tai was formed through complicated geological and biological processes, with a gigantic rock mass and dense vegetation about 1545 meters towering over the surrounding plateau and sea.
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