Taishan Mountain was called Mount Dai or Daizong in ancient times. It has beautiful natural sights and collects famous historic and cultural sites. In 1987, Taishan Mountain was promulgated as the cultural and natural relic of the world by the UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Taishan Mountain is located in the middle part of Shandong Province, its main peak, Jade Emperor Peak, is located at 36°16ˊnorth latitude and 117°6ˊ east longitude, with an elevation of 1,545 meters above sea level Taishan Scenic Resort stretches across Tai'an, Jinan, Licheng and Changqing. It is sixty kilometers to the south of "Quancheng"-jinan City, which has numerous springs, and seventy kilometers to the north of Qufu City-the hometown of Confucius, with Jin Pu Railway and 104 National Highway passing by the foot of the mountain, making the traffic very convenient.
The sunrise of Taishan Mountain is one of Taishan Mountain's most outstanding spectacles. Along with the first light of day breaking out the darkness before the dawn, the eastern canopy of the heaven changes to white like a fish's belly; then red; then dazzling golden yellow, spraying out myriads of sun rays at the same time; and finally, the sun seems like a fireball rising high into the sky. It looks so magnificent and stirs up people's inmost feelings during the whole course. Watching the sunrise on the top of Taishan Mountain has always made tourists yearn for it as well as made so many men of literature write poems for it.
After the rain washes the sky, and when the evening sun is falling down from the clouds gradually, and spilling the soft after glow to the Taishan Mountain, looking up to the western sky, you can find that the scenery on the peak is colored layer by layer and that the color of the clouds is colorful under the glowing of the evening sum, which looks too mysterious to be understood. "The crystal spring running down ten thousand ren high, the glow of the setting sun covering thousand hills." The scenery of the after glow is so beautiful and enchanting that numerous tourists are infatuated with it.
The rain stops and the sky clears up, you can often see that the white clouds extend ten thousand li, just like a giant jade plate floating between the sky and the earth. The mountains and hills for away are all engulfed in the clouds, only a few peaks exposing out of the clouds. When the breeze blows, the sea of the clouds waves, accompanied with all peaks emerging and disappearing alternately, which look like the unpredictable fairy islands, and the tourists nearby seem to be flying and traveling on the clouds in the sky. |
