Bagong Mountain Scenic Spot () is a national AAAA level scenic spot.公山风景区官网 (Bagongshan Official Site).
Accessed 11 Oct. 2016. It locates at

Bagongshan District Bagongshan () is a district of the city of Huainan, Anhui Province, China. The district is famous for its beef soup, often eaten for breakfast, its tofu, and for being the located of Bagong Mountain Scenic Spot. Administrative divisions In the ...

Huainan Huainan () is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui province, China. It is named for the Han-era Principality of Huainan. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south, Lu'an ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

province. Mountain Bagong, known as a famous historic mountain, has many stories and legends like "ride/hang on someone's coattails"(Chinese: 一人得道鸡犬升天). Bagongshan

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created by

Liu An Liú Ān (, c. 179–122 BC) was a Han dynasty Chinese prince, ruling the Huainan Kingdom, and an advisor to his nephew, Emperor Wu of Han (武帝). He is best known for editing the (139 BC) ''Huainanzi'' compendium of Daoist, Confucianist, and ...

is well-known across the world and it plays an irreplaceable role in Chinese cuisine. Besides, Bagongshan is the originating place of creatures. Fossils of Huainan, commonly known as "Huainan worm" was formed 800 million years ago. It is by far the Earth's earliest ancient fossils ever found by the international geological community entitled it as the "Blue Planet" on the source of life. __TOC__

History

Bagongshan has a long history. During the ancient time, it was called Beishan (北山) or Zijinshan (). It was in primitive society, a tribe lived beside the

Huai River The Huai River (), Postal Map Romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in China. It is located about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze, the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins ...

. Then in

Western Zhou The Western Zhou ( zh, c=, p=Xīzhōu; c. 1045 BC – 771 BC) was a royal dynasty of China and the first half of the Zhou dynasty. It began when King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye and ended when the Quanrong noma ...

dynasty, a kingdom was established named

zhoulai Zhoulai () was a small state of the Spring and Autumn period that ruled a crucial part of the middle Huai River valley. Its capital, known by the same name, was located in modern-day Fengtai County in Huainan. Due to its strategic location, Zhoul ...

(州来) whose capital city was at the foot of Bagongshan. Besides, the name Bagongshan was originated from Lord

's legend of becoming immortal. In

dynasty, Bagongshan was a part of

State. The governor of this state

attached great importance to gather talents. Among all these talents, eight people was mostly appreciated. Thus they were called Bagong (). Liuan and his followers ( Huainan Zi) studied about astronomical phenomena, formulated legislative plans and refined Chinese herbs. It was said that one day, Liu successfully made immortal medicine. Then, he became one of the immortals. However, during the process of making immortal medicine, Liu and his followers had mistakenly put

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into the

soy milk Soy milk (simplified Chinese: 豆浆; traditional Chinese: 豆漿) also known as soya milk or soymilk, is a plant-based drink produced by soaking and grinding soybeans, boiling the mixture, and filtering out remaining particulates. It is a sta ...

, then

tofu Tofu (), also known as bean curd in English, is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness; it can be ''silken'', ''soft'', ''firm'', ''extra firm'' or ''super firm ...

was accidentally made by this mistake.

Major attractions

White Pagoda Temple

White Pagoda Temple has a long history. Dating back to the

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, an eminent monk from the White Horse Temple in

Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River (Henan), Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the ...

(

Henan province Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

), came to Bagongshan and decided to build a temple there. Having considered the relationship between

White Horse Temple White Horse Temple () is a Buddhist temple in Luoyang, Henan that, according to tradition, is the first Buddhist temple in China, having been first established in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han dynasty. The site is ...

and this temple, people thus named it White Pagoda Temple. Through the dynasties, the original temple has been destroyed. The existing temple is a re-built one. White Pagoda Temple follows the architectural style of Southern building style and covers an area of 6000 square meters.淮南白塔寺网 (White Pagoda Temple Official Site).
Accessed 29 Nov. 2016.

Stone Landscape

Stone Landscape is an important geological landscape which is recognized as the precious treasure from the immortals. It is about 1.5-to-5-meter high and covers an area of 300 thousand square meters. According to geologists, the rocks there proves the long history of Bagongshan. About 700 million years ago,

Bagongshan district Bagongshan () is a district of the city of Huainan, Anhui Province, China. The district is famous for its beef soup, often eaten for breakfast, its tofu, and for being the located of Bagong Mountain Scenic Spot. Administrative divisions In the ...

was a shallow beach where was filled with chippings. Because of the

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, Bagongshan distract was flooded. Then, under the pressure effect, the original chippings turned into rocks, which was the initial formulating stage of this landscape.八公山公众信息网 (Bagongshan Public Information Site).
Accessed 11 Oct. 2016.

Tourism Information

安徽旅游政务网(Anhui Tourism Government Administration site).
{Dead link, date=October 2019 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes Accessed 11 Oct. 2016.

References

Bagongshan District