Huangshan (Yellow Mountain)
松、石、云——徐霞客与李白笔下的峰林Pines, stone, cloud-sea — peaks in Xu Xiake and Li Bai
Mountain · 华东East China
Location
安徽省黄山市Huangshan City, Anhui ProvinceBest Season
春季和秋季Spring and AutumnRecommended Duration
2-3天2-3 Days黄山以松、石、云海并称于世,花岗岩峰林如笔架。它的名声一半来自地貌,一半来自徐霞客「薄海内外无如徽之黄山」一类游记与李白送友的诗句——山因被写过而更清晰。
Huangshan is famous for pines, grotesque granite, and cloud-seas—but its clarity also comes from being written: Xu Xiake’s travel praise and Li Bai’s farewell verse taught later eyes how to look.
文人把黄山写成可游可居的奇境,而非口号。读它,是读一种把自然收进文字的观看方式;云海与松针,都是记忆的材料。
Scholars treated Huangshan as a landscape to inhabit in language, not a slogan. Read it as a way of seeing: cloud and needle as materials of memory.
「黄山四千仞,三十二莲峰」
Huangshan rises four thousand zhang, with thirty-two lotus peaks
—— 李白, 《送温处士归黄山白鹅峰旧居》