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Mountains

China is home to many sacred mountains.

The Five Great Mountains (五岳 wǔyuè), associated with Taoism:

• Mount Tai (泰山), Shandong Province (1,545 meters)
• Mount Hua (华山), Shaanxi Province (2,054 meters)
• Mount Heng (Hunan) (衡山), Hunan Province (1,290 meters)
• Mount Heng (Shanxi) (恒山), Shanxi Province (2,017 meters)
• Mount Song (嵩山）, Henan Province, where the famous Shaolin Temple (少林寺) is located (1,494 meters)

The Four Sacred Mountains (四大佛教名山 sìdà fójiào míngshān), associated with Buddhism:

• Mount Emei (峨嵋山), Sichuan Province (3,099 meters)
• Mount Jiuhua (九华山), Anhui Province (1,342 meters)
• Mount Putuo (普陀山), Zhejiang Province (297 meters, an island)
• Mount Wutai (五台山), Shanxi Province (3,058 meters)

The three main sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism:

• Mount Kailash, Tibet (6638 meters), aka Gang Rinpoche in Tibetan, also sacred to Hindus pilgrims as the abode of Lord Shiva. Kora (walking around the foot of the mountain) takes 3 days.
• Kawa Karpo (卡瓦格博), Yunnan (6740 meters), Best viewed from FeiLaiSi (飞来寺) at sun rise. Kora takes 15 days.
• Amnye Machen (阿尼玛卿), Qinghai (6282 meters), aka Mt Jishi (积石山). Kora takes 8 days

There are also several other well-known mountains. In China, many mountains have temples, even if they are not especially sacred sites:

• Mount Qingcheng (青城山), Sichuan Province
• Mount Longhu (龙虎山), Jiangxi Province
• Mount Lao (崂山), Shandong Province
• Mount Wuyi (武夷山), Fujian Province, a major tourist/scenic site with many tea plantations
• Mount Everest, straddling the border between Nepal and Tibet, world's highest mountain
• Mount Huang (黄山) (Yellow Mountain), in Anhui province, with scenery and temples
• Mount Wudang (武当山), Taoist mecca, birthplace of taichi and Wudang kung fu
• Changbaishan/Paektusan (Chinese:长白山 Korean:백두산), most sacred mountain to both ethnic Manchus and Koreans, located on the border with North Korea