Mount. Taishan, Dongyue (the Eastern Scared Mountain), located in the Tai’an City in the heart of Shandong Province, China,  is a scenic spot covers an area of 426 km2 and features a main peak named Yuhuangding (the Peak of the Heavenly Emperor) of 1,545 m in altitude. It is reputed as the “most formidable among the Five Sacred Mountains” and the “first mountain under the heaven”. As one of the most beautiful spots throughout China that ranks No. 1 among the ten most famous and appealing Chinese mountains, it was listed as the first natural and cultural heritage in the world in 1987, and in 2006, it was listed as a “World Geopark”.

Mount. Taishan boasts spectacular scenery, for we can view the stunning rising sun, the sunset glow, the sea of clouds, the Yellow River and the Light of Buddha. Its aged pines & rare stones, brooks & waterfalls, and peaks & canyons are so impressive. Along the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, it changes and looks so colorful. Such a rare, mighty, precipitous, elegant, wonderful, quiet and mysterious scenic spot is stunning to the whole world.

Mount. Taishan boasts long-cherished splendid culture, and is reputed as the “Sacred Mountain in China”, a “historical and cultural treasury in the East”, and the “symbol of the Chinese nation”. It has been densely populated land of beauty and abundance since ancient times, and such a blessed place that generals, ministers and emperors have come to offer sacrifices, scholars and celebrities have composed poems and made inscriptions, merchants and monks have gathered, and civilians have come to offer incense and pray for fortune. This is the widespread distinctive Taishan culture.