There are many grotesque mountains and rocks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. Jianglang Mountain in Quzhou is particularly well-known and has become the only world’s renowned natural heritage in the areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai.

Jianglang Mountain is a typical Danxia landform landscape of China. Its rock peak is 369 meters high, towering into the sky. Xu Xiake, a great geographer of ancient China, mentioned Jianglang Mountain in his three trips. He compared Jianglang Mountain with Yandang Mountain, Yellow Mountain, and Dinghu Peak, praising it as “queer,” “steep,” and “miraculous.” The scenery of Jianglang Mountain has fascinated numerous tourists from China and abroad.

The main body of the mountain comprises three huge rocks towering into the clouds. According to a legend, in the ancient time, three brothers with surname of Jiang climbed to the top of the mountain and turned into these three huge rocks. Thus it was called Jianglang Mountain.

The three huge rocks look like stone bamboo and heaven’s pillars, seeming to have been chopped with an ax. They are Lang Peak, Ya Peak, and Ling Peak and honored as the “No. 1 Peaks of Danxia Landform in China” among Chinese and foreign tourists.

Jianglang Mountain has the beautiful peak of Danxia landform with the most amazing thin strip of the sky in China, the dangerously steep Lang Peak, the thousand-year-ancient Kaiming Zen Temple, and ancient Jianglang Academy. Now over 3,500 stone stairs have been cut along the rocky walls. One can reach the top by going up the stairs for about one kilometer.

The opening hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Free admission is available for tourist guides, military personnel in active service, disabled revolutionary soldiers, journalists, the elders above 70 years by showing their valid certificates. Half-price tickets are available to kids with a height between 1.2 and 1.5 meters and elders between 60 and 70 years, and students of primary and middle schools.

Executive Editor: Xinyu XIE

Translation: Xinyu XIE, Wenjin CHEN