By
Al Wong
This is my experience in Beijing, China in the Summer of 2009.
If you came to this webpage first, it's better if you
start from the beginning of the story.
At Huangshan.
This is the sign for
Flower Blooming on Brush Tip.
The sign maybe is hard to read, I'll transcribe it here:
Also known as Gifted Writing Brush consisting of the brush Peak and a pine
tree on its top. Chinese legends relate the brush to the grand ancient Chinese poet
Li Bai, who was once fascinated here. Later myriads of poems were composed to
praise its beauty, one of which says "A nature made gifted brush paints all the
lovely scenes". Brush Peak, 1640m in altitude, is one of the 36 small peaks in Mt.
Huangshan.
Formed around 1200 million years ago, the peak takes the shape of
a brush point while the body looks like a shaft of a brush. More marvelous on
top stands a pine tree like a blooming flower in front of the Brush Peak hes the
Brush-holder Peak exactly in the shape of a brush holder. What a fantastic wonder
to have the brush and the holder within the same vicinity.
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