5/24/2007

Wangwu Mountain will welcome tourists

Wangwu Mountain is in the northwest of Jiyuan City in Henan province, occupying 272 square meters. It has more than 100 attractions, being one of the nine Taoism mountains in China. The main peak Tiantan Mountain has an altitude of 1715 meters, being a worship ceremony place in ancient China and the ridge of Taihang Mountain.
According to the government's plan, the mountain will be developed and protected. A new scenic area will be built and different routes will be recommended to different customers. Wangwu Mountain will be a place of interest for sightseeing, vacation travel and exploring Chinese cultural spirit.
Chinese legend of Yu Gong moving the mountain:
There were two high mountains between Jizhou in the south and Heyang in the north. One was called Taihang Mountain and the other Wangwu Mountain. Both of the mountains were more than three hundred kilometers around and rose as high as 3,000 meters.
Just to the north of the mountains lived an old man called Yu Gong who was nearly ninety years old. With the two high mountains just in front of his house, his family and he had to walk a long way around the mountains when they had something to do on the other side of the mountains.
One day, Yu Gong called all his family together to talk about how to move the two mountains to other places. His wife said, "An old man like you cannot even move a small hill, not to mention the two high mountains. Even if you can, where can you throw so much earth and stone?"
"The Bohai Sea is big enough to contain all the earth and stone." Yu Gong said.
It was decided. His children started to dig the mountains, led by the old man Yu Gong.
A man named Zhi Sou saw them working and tried to stop them with a smile, "You are so silly! You're so old and weak that you can't even take away the grass and trees. How can you move the high mountains?"
"You're wrong." Yu Gong said with a sigh. "Look, my sons can continue my work after my death. When my sons die, my grandchildren will continue. So generation after generation, there's no end. But the mountains can't grow higher. Don't you think I can move them away?"
Seeing the old man so confident, Zhi Sou was tongue-tied.
Later the Heaven God was reported the story of Yu Gong, and greatly moved by the old man's determination. He then ordered another god to come down and take the two high mountains away.
The story tells us that so long as one is determined and sticks to it long enough, anything can be done, no matter how difficult it is.

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