HERITAGE RECORD · 547

Mount Huangshan

黄山

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

Huangshan, known as 'the loveliest mountain of China', was acclaimed through art and literature during a good part of Chinese history (e.g. the Shanshui 'mountain and water' style of the mid-16th century). Today it holds the same fascination for visitors, poets, painters and photographers who come on pilgrimage to the site, which is renowned for its magnificent scenery made up of many granite peaks and rocks emerging out of a sea of clouds.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ36034 ↗

Area16060 ha

Administrative areaQ40956

WikipediaHuangshan ↗

Chinese Wikipedia黄山 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(vii)Superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.

(x)The most important natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity.

Cultural archive

Related poem

Mount Huang rises four thousand ren, its thirty-two peaks like lotus blossoms.

李白 Li Bai · 《送温处士归黄山白鹅峰旧居》 / Sending Wen Back to White Goose PeakOriginal: 黄山四千仞，三十二莲峰。Original work in the public domainSource ↗

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