Wonderful National Park:Moutain Sanqingshan
By admin on 2015-01-14

Mount Sanqingshan is a renowned Taoist Mountain located in northeast part of Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province with outstanding scenery. It has high geographic, aesthetics and culture value, combining fantastic natural scenery, especially the forest of granite hills scenery, and Taoism culture with thousand years of history. The World Heritage Committee spoke highly of heritage value of Mount Sanqingshan. The meeting held that: Sanqingshan National Park of China shows the unique and lifelike granite pillars and peaks in a relatively small area.

"Sanqing" literally means "three distincts" in Mandarin as the Mount Sanqingshan, is made up of three main summits: the "Yujing Peak", "Yuxu Peak and "Yuhua Peak ". The three steep peaks, looking as the "Three Taoist Gods", explains why it was named "Sanqing". The total area of this scenic spot is 756.60 square kilometers, and amongst the three hills, its highest peak "Yujing Peak" is with an altitude of 1819.9 meters. It is full of fairness and charm that it has enjoyed a reputation as "Best Spirit Mountain in the world". Unique geologic structure and suitable geographic environment makes Mount Sanqingshan famous with its granite hill forest physiognomy. And it is a natural museum for the evolvement process of granite hill forest which is composed of with ridges and peak, apex wall, apex woods, apex pillar and stone sprout, etc. The various shapes of hills also have high aesthetic and tourism development value.