The Huangshan Mountains, or Yellow Mountains, renowned 

The sea if clouds over Huangshan is a unique natural spectacle that also enhances the beauty of the landscape.

    In antiquity it was known as Mount Yi, but its name was changed because, as legend has it, it was here that the Yellow Emperor ascended to Heaven and became immortal. Huangshan covers an area of 250 square kilometers. Its mountain body is extraordinary and magnificent, with dangerous cliffs thrusting skywards, and crisscrossed by quiet gullies. It is a place where strangeness, depth, magnificence, sheerness and mystery concentrate in a single body.

    It has 72 named peaks. They are either towering and powerful, or steep and beautiful, laid out in graceful disorder and naturally formed. The Tiandu (Heavenly Capital)Peak, Lianhua(Lotus)Peak and the Guangming(Brightness)Peak stand high in the central area, all l, 800 meters above sea level. The Huangshan Scenic Area radiates from this center, sinking into deep valleys or rising into high peaks, forming classical peak and forest configurations.

    Huangshan has four superb characteristics:No rock without a pine tree and no pine without a curious Arm;range upon range of grotesque peaks and outlandish rocks, seemingly sculpted;flying clouds and moving mists like seas seething into a vast expanse of roaring waves;every spring gushing with crystal clear

    The praises of visitors of every age are condensed in the sayin9, "All famous sights under the sun are found at Huangshan"-the magnificence of Mount Tai. the steep height of Huashan, the smoky clouds of Hengshan, the flying falls of Lushan, the grotesque rocks of Mount Yantang and the pleasant coolness of Emei. The Ming Dynasty(1368¡ª1644) geographer Xu Xiake wrote the following famous lines, "Once you've seen the Five Sacred Mountains, you've no need to visit another mountain. Once you've seen Huangshan, you don't need visit the Five Sacred Mountains."