Xu Xiake’s sentence of praising Huangshan is “There is nothing like Huangshan in Huihai, both inside and outside the sea. Climbing Huangshan, there is no mountain in the world, and the view stops!”.

It means that looking at the mountains at home and abroad, none is like Huangshan in Anhui. Once you climb Mount Huangshan, there is no other mountain in the world worth climbing.

After continuous spread and development, it has gradually evolved into "Don't look at the mountains when you return from the Five Mountains, and don't look at the mountains when you return from Huangshan".

A geographer, traveler and writer of the Ming Dynasty. After 30 years of investigation, he wrote the 600,000-word geographical masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels", and is known as "A Strange Man Through the Ages".

Xu Xiake's ambitions were all over the world throughout his life, and he traveled to 21 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions today. He "explored the places that others have not reached, and explored the unknowns of others." Wherever he went, he explored the secrets and recorded them. There are travel notes that record various phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants observed. Extended information

Ancient poems describing Huangshan

1. The ape in Qiupu is sad at night, but Huangshan is worthy of growing old.

Source: "Seventeen Songs of Qiupu" by Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty

Interpretation: The night monkeys wail on the Qiupu water, and even the nearby Xiaohuang Mountain turns gray with sorrow.

2. I stayed under the moonlight over the blue stream of Huangshan Mountain, but when I listened to it, I stopped playing the harp among the pines.

Source: Tang Dynasty Li Bai's "Moving at Night in Huangshan to Hear the Yin Fourteen Wu Songs"

Interpretation: I live by the Bixi River on the edge of Huangshan Mountain, and the moon is reflected in the water. The collision of pine trees in the mountain forest sounds like the sound of a piano.

3. Show off the sky with a stick and explore it, the peaks high and low protect Qinglan.

Source: "Traveling in Huangshan" by Jiao Bingyan of the Song Dynasty

Interpretation: The branches of the pine trees stretch out ten feet into the sky, and the many peaks high and low seem to be protecting them.