Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Mount Baochan in Hanshan
Formerly Huashan and renamed for the monk Huibao who settled here in the Zhenguan era, the mountain's Huayang Cave is known through Wang Anshi's account of his 1054 visit.
Mural guide
A sea of cloud fills the valleys while sharp rock peaks rise from it, ridge behind ridge; on the right, pines reach out from cliffs dressed in yellow and red autumn leaves.
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- Record of Visiting Mount BaochanProseWang Anshi
The most marvelous, magnificent, and extraordinary sights under heaven usually lie in dangerous, distant places where few tread; therefore none but those with resolute willpower can reach them. If one exhausts one's utmost resolve yet fails to arrive, one may have no regrets—who then could mock him?