Tiantai Mountain is located in Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China.
Tiantai Mountain (tiān tāi shān), located in the central-eastern part of Zhejiang Province, is situated in the junction of Ningbo, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Wenzhou, southwest of the Xianxia Ridge, northeast of the Zhoushan Archipelago, for the Cao'e River and the Yongjiang River, the watershed, many overhanging rocks, crags, waterfalls, has always been renowned for the Buddha's Taoism, the water and the landscape is well-known both at home and abroad. The main peak of Tiantai Mountain, Huading Mountain, is located in the northeast of Tiantai County, with an elevation of 1,098 meters, composed of granite.
Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area, located in the north of Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, was approved by the State Council as a national key scenic spot in 1988, listed as one of the top ten tourist attractions in Zhejiang Province in 1992, and rated as a national AAAAA-level tourist area in 2015.
The main scenic spots are: Guoqing Temple, the world's wonders of Shiliang Flying Waterfall, the summer resort of Huading National Forest Park, Jigong's hometown of Chicheng Mountain, the earthly wonderland of Qiongtai Immortal Valley, the recreational paradise of the Tianhu Scenic Spot, the pavilions of Jigong's former residence, and the unique charm of the Longtong Gorge.
May 2020, it is listed on the list of the first batch of Zhejiang's cultural imprints.
Tiantai Mountain Natural Environment:
Tiantai Mountain's beautiful landscapes have made countless literati and scholars fall in love with it. "Tiantai Mountain, the cover of the mountains of the God show also, poor mountains and the sea of the magnificent wealth, all the human and God's magnificence carry on."
Tiantai Mountain's natural landscape is blessed with the painting of the strange stones, caves, waterfalls, springs, say endless ancient trees, flowers, rare birds, animals, landscape show, is a natural botanical gardens and zoos. There are a lot of strange plants and trees, rare birds and animals. There are Sui plum, Tang camphor, Song cypress, Song rattan, Wu yao known as the medicine of immortality and life-saving immortal grass of dendrobium.
Particularly the Yunjin azalea, which is widely spread over thousands of meters of mountains, is more than 100 years old, with ancient trunks such as iron, gnarled branches such as hooks, and luxuriant foliage. Every year in the twilight of spring, light red, tender yellow flowers competing to open, the flowers are large and colorful, a tree of a thousand, flower clusters, look at the brocade like Xia. Tree of the ancient, the face of the wide, flower bloom, rare in the country, for Tiantai Mountain, a major botanical wonders.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tiantai Mountain