Mt.Chashan

    Lied on the Yellow Sea shore of southern Rongcheng City of Shandong Province, with an attitude of 539 m of its highest peak—Qingliang Top,Chashan Mountain(Iron Chashan Mountain of Nine Peaks) owes its name to the nine deep green peaks linking to each other.

    Chashan Mountain is well known as the Wonderland of Dadong since ancient times for the natural and human cultural relics.It is also an important origin of Taoism.

    According to the historic books, in Dading years of Jin Dynasty, Wang Chongyang gave lectures here to disciple sand founded Quanzhenism of Taoism. Later Wang Chuyi(yuyang),one of Wang Chongyang's disciple created Kunshan branch of Quanzhenism and “ Collection of Yunguang”,the doctrinal book. As many visitors came to the Yunguang cavern. Yuyang moved to Qingliang Top and continued with his calm life in the Qianzhen Cave.

    In 1991, Chashan Mountain was approved as the Province-class Scenic Spot, and listed as the State-class Forest Park by the Ministry of Forestry in 1992.

Distance from the city (km): 50.0