Unesco description
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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The Halo of Buddha (or Glory) is an optical phenomenon that resembles a Saint´s halo. The effect is believed to happen when light nearby the droplet tunnels through the air inside the droplet and is emitted backwards. The glory can only be seen when the observer is directly between the sun and cloud of refracting water droplets.

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