Mount Tai (Chinese: 泰山) is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Taian (泰安), Shandong Province (山東省), China. Mount Tai is the major tourist attraction in Shandong, the cliff carvings on the mountain are one of the must-see.
Many emperors of the past dynasties and cultural figures had climbed Mount Tai, leaving behind a dazzling amount of stone inscriptions and stone carvings.
Because of Mount Tai’s sacred importance and dramatic landscape, it was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
On the east side of Jade Emperor Peak (玉皇頂), there is a cliff commonly known as Daguan Peak (大觀峰). Daguan Peak is actually a cliff full of stone inscriptions of past dynasties.
There are more than 1,800 stone inscriptions in Mount Tai, including more than 800 steles and 1,000 cliff stone inscriptions.
Mount Tai is known as the eastern mountain of the five sacred mountains of China. It is associated with sunrise, birth, and renewal, and is often regarded as the foremost of the five.
Mount Tai has been a place of worship for at least 3,000 years and served as one of the most important ceremonial centers of China during large portions of this period.
There are a large number of small caves in Mount Tai where the ancients practiced. According to legend, as early as the Warring States Period (戰國時代), many alchemists had already lived in seclusion in the caves of northern Mount Tai.
