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HUA SHAN (MOUNT-HUA)华山

Hua Shan (Flowery Mountain), 2200m (7,218ft) high and east of Xi'an, is one of the five mountains in China sacred to Taoism and, to some extent, later adopted by the imported religion of Buddhism. The mountain is composed of five peakes; the Middle Peak has the best view of the 'Sea of Clouds' at sunrise.

There's Chinese saying:

"There is one path and one path only to the summit of Hua Shan", meaning that sometimes the hard way is the only way.

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The Enter to Hua Shan
The Enter to Hua Shan		 Me and the Dragons
Me and the Dragons		 I'm brave
I'm brave		 Chinese graffiti
Chinese graffiti
In The way up
In The way up		 U can see the West Peak
U can see the West Peak		 West Peak
West Peak		 House in the Mountain
House in the Mountain
Me And Yu (Yu email: bigfacecat78@hotmail.com)
Me And Yu (Yu email: bigfacecat78@hotmail.com)		 Yu trying to keep up
Yu trying to keep up		 Both working hard
Both working hard		 Guard
Guard
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peggy 27-Apr-2009 22:03
amazing... my granddaughter just climbed it and I am impressed by her courage and strength.
Having climbed some in my skiing days before the lifts carrying skis and polls was a feat buty nothing as difficult.
Guest 25-Feb-2009 12:08
Hua (= flower) relates to the position of the 5 peaks. 1 central peak and 4 others around it, like the petals of a flower.
Roy Bates 10-Jul-2008 23:56
May I make an observation? Does Flowery Mountain sound right? Are there many flowers on this mountain to justify such a name? I doubt it. Shear common sense will suggest that “flowery” is a completely inappropriate term for a huge mountain.
Confusion arises over the character hua 華 (traditional Chinese) 华 (Simplified Chinese). Originally it meant glorious, magnificent, illustrious, or great in the sense of “noble”. Then the same character with the same pronunciation became to be used to mean flowery. Therefore, anyone seeing the character in a written text has to determine what the writer really means. I feel sure that Hua Shan is meant to convey and mean the magnificent mountain, the glorious mountain, the great mountain, rather than the flowery mountain.
Incidentally, does anyone really believe that the Chinese would call their country the “flowery kingdom”? The glorious, the great, the noble kingdom (or empire!) by all means — but China the flowery kingdom, certainly not!
Guest 20-Mar-2007 16:56
hie elinatan, it's Brigitte, I travelled with you in this gallery!!!
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