Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Explore Bagong Mountain

Bagong Mountain (an optional destination for your Huangshan travel) cover an area of 200 square kilometers with over 40 peaks and ancient springs. The famous springs are Xiyun Spring, Yulou Spring and Lanxiang Spring. There are Bagong Xian Pavilion, Bagong Mountain Park, Sun Family Garden, Nantang Natural Swimming Pool, stone forest, bamboo shoot, and Shimen Lake. The most spectacular and priceless treasure is 500-600 million year Paleontology Fossils Group.

Bagong Mountain has beautiful scenery with rich history. According to legend, Huainan Liu An practiced Chinese alchemy with his eight friends here. Bagong Mountain was named after this story. There is a Pearl Spring on the east of Bagong Mountain and Huainan Liu An used this spring water to make “Huainan Tofu”. There is another legend “When a man becomes immoral, even chicken and dog can go to heaven”. According to the story, when Huainan Liu An and his eight friends succeed in making immortality pills and became immortal, they left some pills in the dish. A chicken and a dog at pills and became immortal and went to heaven as well. You can learn some Chinese history here during your China Educational tours.

The famous battle “Battle of Fei River” had happened here. In 383, the Former Qin general Fu Jian attacked Xie Shi, Xie Xuanyu in Bagong Mountain. The Qin army was defeated. The general Fu Jian was panic and had illusion and saw every tree as a soldier. Bagong Mountain Tofu and its soy products have good reputation in history. It is worth trying the “Tofu Feast” in Bagong Mountain.

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