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Whose poem comes from "When you return from the Five Mountains, you don't look at the mountains; when you return from Huangshan, you don't look at the mountains."

From Xu Xiake’s visit to Huangshan, he wrote a seven-character poem "Wandering in the Wonderland of Huangshan"

"When you return from the Five Mountains, you don’t see the mountains; when you return from Huangshan, you don’t see the mountains." It means that the Five Mountains encompass the mountains and rivers of the world. Characteristics, seeing the Five Sacred Mountains is equivalent to seeing all the mountains in the world. Huangshan has the characteristics of the Five Mountains. One mountain encompasses all the mountains in the world. This explains the beauty and uniqueness of Huangshan Mountain.

The "Five Mountains" refer to: Songshan Mountain in the middle, Taishan Mountain in the east, Hengshan Mountain in the south, Hengshan Mountain in the north, and Huashan Mountain in the west.

Extended information:

Xu Xiake (January 5, 1587 - March 8, 1641), named Hongzu, courtesy name Zhenzhi, and nicknamed Xiake, was born in Jiangyin, South Zhili Province (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province). He was a geographer, traveler and writer in the Ming Dynasty. His 600,000-word geographical masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels", which he compiled after 30 years of investigation, is known as "a strange man through the ages". ?

Xu Xiake's lifelong ambitions were all over the world, and he traveled to 21 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions today. He "explores what others have not yet reached, and explores what is unknown". Wherever he went, he explored the secrets. There are also travel notes, recording various phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants observed.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Xiake