Sanqing Mountain

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Updated: 2011-09-02

Longevity Park

Longevity Park is located at the southern foot of the Sanqing Mountain, the east of the cableway. In this spot, the natural shape of strange peaks and grotesque rocks and longevity are in a happy combination and a unified entity. The spot and landscape are in "Taoist natural" law. All of these are closely related with the theme of well-being and longevity. While enjoying and beautiful scenery, visitors can also gain some enlightenment in keeping with good health and long life.

West Seashore

It is a newly developed spot in Sanqing Mountain. It joins the southern natural spectacles and the northern cultural Sanqing Temple together. Throughout the journey, you can see rare landscape, such as Flower and Fruit Mountain, the Monkey King Appreciating Treasure, Guanyin Delivering children, Feixian Valley and so on. It is the best place to appreciate vast clouds and to overlook such gorges as the Primitive Forest, Feixian Valley, the Royal Family etc. In this spot, you can also see black bears, rhesus monkeys and other wild animals. The plank footpath leads you along the West Seashore for 4 km, which is built along the face of a cliff more than 1600 meters above sea level. It is the highest and longest plank footpath in China.

Yujing Peak

Yujing Peak, with an elevation of 1816.9meters, is the highest of Sanqing Mountain. It has a wide range, including Nine Heaven Yinyuan Mansion, Safflower and Tea-oil Tree Valley, Jinyu Pine Ridge, Riding Magpie Bridge, Searching Truth Terrace, Yuhua Peak, Yuxu Peak and the three peaks Fenglai. There you can overlook Feixian valley, the steep Princess valley and cloud seaa and mist waves, sunrise, treasure rays and towering strange peaks. It is impossible for one to truly appreciate Sanqing Mountain without reaching Yujing Peak.

Nanqing Park

Nanqing Park is one of the most spectacular natural landscapes, with an elevation of 1577 meters. It has a wide range of peaks and many beautiful places, spreading from Youxian Valley to Watching Clouds Terrace, including Yixiantian(a thread's breadth to the sky), delicate rocks and grand valleys. There are also vast cloud seas, many rare peculiar peaks, delicate rocks and grand valleys. There are also vast cloud seas, many rare flowers and trees and several hundred-muazalea groves. In Yuhuang Peak, you can see generous sunrise with a good look. Among the peaks in Nanqing, there are "Sichun Goddess", "Gigantic python Rising in the Mountain", "Nine Dragons Joking with Phoenix", "Taoist python Rising in the Moon", "Yunu with Open Arms", "An Island of Flowers", "Beauty Peak ", "Searching for Elixir Terrace", "Watching Clouds Terrace" and so on.

Sanqing Temple

Sanqing Temple is a place of assembly for cultural heritage and an "open-air museum” of ancient Taoist architecture.

Sanqing Temple is a place of assembly for cultural heritage and an "open-air museum” of ancient Taoist architecture. It is located at an elevation of 1530 meters, beginning from "Wind Gate” to "Ninth HeavenYinyuan Mansion". There are collected the cream of the cultural relics and Taoist architecture of the Sanqing Mountain, spanning 1600 years of history.

Sanqing Temple is a good place to research the Taoist ancient Architectural design in China. It follows traditional philosophy. The art of selecting and setting obeys "Taoist natural" law and combining nature landscape and human art together. By combining craftsmanship with nature, and planning landscapes in accordance with carefully chosen shapes, Sanqing Temple fully reflects the essence of heaven, the land and human beings.

Entrance of Three Caves

The spot stands in the west of Sanqing Mountain. Here you can probe deeply into the maze-like valley of Sanqing Mountain from the peaks. And, from different angles, you can look far into the distance to Yujing peak, the fairyland of Fenglai and Jeweled Palace, to which nothing can compare.

Stone Drum Ridge

It is located in the north east of Sanqing Mountain. It is a newly opened park, where springs and waterfalls are of great momentum. The Jade Curtain Falls, about 34by 30 meters, as an example, is one of the largest falls here. It is so named because it looks like a crystal jade curtain hanging from the heaven. What's more, there are unique Jinsha (gold sands) basin and rhesus monkey tribe nearby. Among them, "Yunu Pond", "Ice Jade Cave", is spectacles of water scenery, where one can drink and wash. And the rhesus monkey tribe welcomes you to visit and play with them.

Xihua Terrace

This spot, which is located at the northern foot of the Sanqing Mountain, is an old slab stone way climbing the Mountain dating from Song and Ming dynastide. The main character here is the poetic lyricism and picturesque concept countryside scenery, just like Taohuayuan, a beautiful dream place from the writings of Tao yuanming, a famous writer of the Jin dynasty. From Fenshui village to Wind gate, one can hear the songs of the pines and springs and gaze on thick trees and blooming flowers. While the mountain paths wind peacefully under the shade of the trees, a cool respite from the hot weather, even in midsummer. So it is praised as a "kingdom of green" and” A cool and refreshing world".

Yulin Temple

Yulin temple includes an area below the Wind Gate to the Jin sha (gold sands) and Longquan (dragon spring) bridge. It is the passageway in the east, and has such historic sites as Yulin Temple. In this spot, the winding mountain path rounds in the peaks and threads its way under the shape of pines and bamboos until to the mysterious Wind Gate pass, with streams and pine on all sides.