The earliest old photo of Huangshan Mountain in history, 19 14 Huang Yanpei's trip to Huangshan Mountain.

Huang Yanpei 1878 was born in Chuansha County, Jiangsu Province (now Shanghai), and 1905 joined the League. After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as director of education in Jiangsu Province. During his tenure, he advocated the idea that education should be combined with students' life and schools should be linked with social reality.

19 14 began to inspect all parts of the country in February and arrived in Huizhou in early May. For a long time, the difficulty of climbing Huangshan Mountain and the beauty of the scenery were unknown to the people of China. Perhaps this is the original intention of Huang Yanpei to shoot and publish the book Huangshan from the perspective of education, thus leaving us with these 32 extremely precious real-life images of Huangshan.

In the third year of the Republic of China (1 914), from May to June, Huang Yanpei and his fellow countryman friend Gu Zhilian, photographer Lu Yishou, several porters and tour guides boarded Huangshan Mountain. After the trip, he wrote Travel Notes of Huangshan Mountain, which was published in Novel Monthly and published by the Commercial Press in June.

The following sections will show the photos released by Huang Yanpei and the real photos taken by Lu Yi in chronological order. Because the original text of Huangshan Travel Notes is long, we only extract some words for interpretation (interested readers can look at the pictures and words themselves).

Huang Yanpei wrote at the beginning of Huangshan Travel Notes:

According to the records in Mr. Huang Yanpei's article, we drew a road map of the satellite map. At that time, the means of transportation were basically on foot. The three of them hired three sedan chairs, six sedan chairs and a porter to carry luggage, and they could only walk less than 50 miles a day.

It can be seen from this passage that Huang Yanpei and his party set out from Xixi at 7 am on May 2, and it was already dark when they arrived at Ziyun Temple (now Huangshan Hot Spring Sanatorium). Fortunately, at this time, the Huangshan Mountain is high and the clouds are light, and the weather is fine. On that day, Dashan walked about 70 miles.

That night, in order to plan the next day's mountaineering, Huang Yanpei carefully studied the routes in the previous travels of Huangshan Mountain in a small square pot, and consulted the monk of Ziyun Temple. He is 73 years old, but he has only been to Wenshu Academy (now Yuping Building). Sexual sea told him that few people have been to Huangshan in the past ten years, and Huang Yanpei has heard that Americans and Japanese have been to Huangshan. The monk said it was true, but they had never met.

At this time, another monk volunteered to be a tour guide, but he has only been to the farthest place in the lion forest. Huang Yanpei was very happy. To be cautious, he hired another local guide named Chen. After making proper arrangements, he fell asleep in the sound of spring all night.

Photo 1, the first scenic spot in China: Huangshan Mountain (the picture is omitted later). This picture was taken by Lu Yishou when he set out on the morning of May 3rd. A monk stood outside the side door of the temple, his hands folded. It should be to see them off and pray for them.

Figure 2: Qinglong Lake and Xiaobu Bridge

Figure 3: Ziyun Xia Feng Hot Spring.

Huang Yanpei used this passage to describe the hot spring scenery, one of the four wonders of Huangshan Mountain. Everyone experienced a hot spring bath.

Huang Yanpei and his party increased their staff by nine people and began to move forward. The waterfall he described in his article has no name, so it should be Baizhang Waterfall today.

Figure 6: Tiandu Peak viewed from the second path.

Figure 7, Tiandufeng Cliff, which is the cliff you will encounter in the picture of the Gate of Heaven.

After describing this trip, Huang Yanpei was deeply impressed. He believes that the rocks on the cliffs of Huangshan Mountain, big or small, have been weathered and evolved for countless years. Now he met them. I don't know whether these big stones will turn into fine stones in tens of millions of years, and his own body doesn't know where they will disappear. In the second half, he especially encouraged future generations to take the wonder of Huangshan Mountain as the beauty of heaven and earth. It would be shameful if he was afraid to climb them because of cowardice.

Figure 8, Tianmenkan, as the name implies, is the threshold of Tianmen, located between Tiandu and Zisha.

By careful comparison, this welcoming pine has changed a lot during 100 years. The pine needles in the second row on the left side of the old picture are clearly visible, but not in the new picture. It is faintly visible that the wire rope is pulling the lowest branch.

Picture 10, the turquoise under the cave of Wenshuyuan is called Penglai Island.

Figure 1 1, seeing Tiandufeng from Wenshu Hospital.

Huang Yanpei and his party boarded Manjusri Terrace (now the platform in front of Yuping Building), looked around and enjoyed the magnificent scenery. In the upper right corner of this photo is Geng Yunfeng, and there is a stone mouse at the top, trying to jump to Tiandu Peak.

Photo 12, Wen Shu Temple. It is said that this temple was built by Pumen Master in Ming Dynasty in 16 13, and was rebuilt by fire, and it caught fire again in 1952. Now it is Yupinglou Hotel.

Figure 13, Tiandufeng seen from the front line of Wenshuyuan.

At night, everyone sleeps next to the Buddhist shrine in the Wenshuyuan. The temperature is extremely low and I feel very cold. The next morning, Huang Yanpei gave the monk An Deyu three yuan and forty cents as appropriate, and the group headed for Lotus Peak.

Figure 14, Lotus Peak.

Photo 16, Yunmen Peak. Photo 17, Jiulong Mountain. These two photos were taken at the peak of Lotus.

Figure 18, Huang Yanpei climbed to the top of Lotus Peak, the highest peak in Huangshan Mountain, overlooking the four Joo Won?. He is full of lofty sentiments and great poetry, and wrote a poem "Climbing the Lotus Peak in Huangshan Mountain":

Photo 19, Ao Yufeng. Figure 20. Looking at tiandu lotus peak from tianhai.

Huang Yanpei and his party descended from Lotus Peak and reached Aoyu Peak from the 100-step ladder. This section is no different from the current Huangshan route.

Figure 2 1, Lotus Peak seen from the air.

Figure 22. Look at the north gate from the sky.

As can be seen from the photos, there were not many trees in Tianhai at that time.

Fig. 23, Lion Forest; Photo 24: Wu Song in front of the Lion Forest.

Figure 25, cooling table.

Fig. 26, Xin Feng from Lion Forest; Figure 27, initial peak.

Huang Yanpei and his party climbed from Tianhai to Guangmingding and came to Lion Forest (now Huangshan Lion Forest Hotel). When they arrived at this Buddhist temple, they found only one monk practicing here. Huang Yanpei was greatly moved and pitied when they saw a rare foreigner coming here and dragging his sick body out to meet him. He provided medicine for his fellow countryman friend Gu Zhilian.

Fig.28, Li Jiang Tianqin Terrace.

This passage by Huang Yanpei is mainly an allusion to Tian Qintai in Li Jiang.

Fig. 29, disturbing Longsong. Fig. 30. Grafted pine trees.

At that time, the local tour guide once called the disturbing Longsong a "dream pen gives birth to flowers". Its original stone pillar is like a dragon, and a pine tree stands on the dragon's head, indicating that it is disturbing. Therefore, the name of disturbing Longsong exists in local chronicles. However, when it is called Li Bai's wonderful pen, it is impossible to verify it.

Figure 3 1, Lawson.

When he arrived at Yungu Temple, Zheng Guo, a monk accompanying him, told Huang Yanpei that there was a strange tree named Luo Song next to Yungu Temple, and vines and pine trees were combined into one.

Fig. 32, Jiulong Waterfall.

Huang Yanpei was in distress at Jiulong Waterfall. In order to get a close look at the waterfall, they entered from the slope. Unexpectedly, due to loose soil and stone, Huang Yanpei slipped a few feet and his fingers were injured and bleeding. However, Tianzhou (Coco's jewelry) and Gu Zhilian ignored the danger. One went down the ravine to pull the thatch, and the other found a seat to take a panoramic view, which was simply a perfect picture of Kowloon Waterfall. Huang Yanpei also laughed at himself.

After a hard mountaineering trip, Huang Yanpei and his party continued to stay in Ziyun Temple the night before. The next morning, they continued to soak in hot springs, bid farewell to the monks in Ziyun Temple, and received the special products of Huangshan Mountain. When leaving, Huang Yanpei left a pair of book couplets for all the monks, among which the gift to the sea monk was:

Writing here is like the end of Mr. Huang Yanpei's trip to Huangshan, and this article is completed. Finally, I quoted his feelings and encouraged readers to:

My simple understanding of Mr. Huang's sentence is that practice makes perfect, and everything is difficult. This is the indomitable spirit.