Huang shan gui lai bu kan shan." 1 Having visited the five sacred mounts, I find no other mountains worth seeing; having returned from the Huangshan Mountain, however, I find the five mounts unworthy of my visit.”
The Zhongwen laoshi (Chinese teacher) spoke it like some secret mantra, there was no escaping the lure of going up there and conquering Huang Shan, or the Yellow Mountain. To people in China, Yellow Mountain encapsulates all there is to know about mountains. It's like New York. If you make it there, you'll make it anywhere. |