Huangshan
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How it came to be
Under the Qin dynasty the mountain was called Yishan. In 747 an imperial decree of the Tang renamed it Huangshan. The name is widely thought to honour the legendary Yellow Emperor, Huang Di, who according to legend refined pills of immortality here.
Under the Yuan dynasty 64 temples were built on the mountain, and in 1606 the monk Pumen founded the Fahai Meditation Temple. In the Ming period Huangshan became a favourite subject of landscape painters, and a school of painting grew up around it, of which Shi Tao is the best known. From the Tang to the end of the Qing more than 20,000 poems were written about the mountain.
Huangshan was declared a national scenic and historic area in 1982, inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1990 and named a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2004. Seventy-seven peaks rise above 1,000 m, the highest being Lianhua (Lotus Flower) Peak at 1,864 m. UNESCO counts 2.74 million visitors a year, a number growing by 8.96 percent annually.
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