Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area is one of the Chinese four famous Buddhist, has a name of ''Lotus Buddhist country". To visit those Buddhist Holy Lands, do as the Romans do, respect for religious beliefs, when enter the temple must not making rude remarks. if you meet the monks in the street, please let them go first, to show our respects. Not arbitrarily to ask why they became monk, and other sensitive issues such as their daily life, this is the great taboo. Jiuhua Mountain covers an area of 120 square kilometers southwest of Qingyang County in the south of Anhui Province. On the north is the Yangtze River and on the south the Huangshan Mountain.

Jiuhua Mountain is dotted with temples and misted with the smoke of burning joss sticks. It is a sacred place for Buddhist pilgrims. With a unique appeal, Jiuhua Mountain has been established as one of the four most important Buddhist Mountains in China and is known in and out of the country as "the most worshipped sacred place" and "the first mountain in Southeast China". The temples now numbers 80-odd and the monks and nuns more than 300.

Buddhist activities 

Jiuhua Mountain is the northern subtropical humid monsoon climate, has a small alpine climate characteristics at the same time. The annual average temperature is 13.4 C, and the average annual rainfall is 2437.5 mm. Rainy weather more than others, sunshine at the mountain top is shorter than the mountain foot. Nine Huashan spring always coming late, autumn always coming earlier, and summer is short winter is long. And the higher altitude, the more obvious the changing seasons. Jiuhuashan's winter is the average temperature of 0 in most parts and frozen for a long time. The best season to visit Jiuhuashan is from March to November.


Key Words:
九华山 Jiǔhuá Shān: Jiuhua Mountain
香火甲天下 Xiānghuǒ Jiǎtiānxià: the most worshipped sacred place
东南第一山 Dōngnán Dìyī Shān: the first mountain in Southeast China
十王峰 Shíwáng Fēng: Shiwang Peak
观音石 Guānyīn Shí: Guanyin Stone
观音峰 Guānyīn Fēng: Guanyin Peak
石佛 Shífó: Stone Buddha