In Qingyang County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province.

Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area is located in Qingyang County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province. It faces Tianzhu Mountain across the Yangtze River in the northwest, and shares the same glory with Huangshan Mountain across Taiping Lake in the southeast. It is the main scenic spot in the tourism development strategy of Anhui Province's "Two Mountains and One Lake" (Jiuhua Mountain, Taiping Lake, and Huangshan) and consists of 11 major scenic spots.

Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots, a national 5A tourist area, a national civilized scenic tourist area demonstration site, and the first batch of national natural and cultural dual heritage sites. Its peaks are Mount Jiuhua and Mount Wutai in Shanxi. Mount Putuo in Zhejiang and Mount Emei in Sichuan are also known as the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism.

Jiuhua Mountain belongs to the north subtropical warm monsoon climate type, which is characterized by: obvious monsoon, four distinct seasons, mild climate, sufficient sunlight, abundant rainfall, concentrated summer rain, and significant plum rain. The mountainous climate of Mount Jiuhua has both the overall characteristics of the humid monsoon climate of the north subtropical zone and the characteristics of a shady, cool and wet mountainous climate affected by the altitude and topography of the mountainous area.

Gourmet specialties

1. Jiuhuashan Vegetarian Food

Jiuhuashan is a famous Buddhist mountain. Historically, not only monks and nuns had to strictly follow the precepts and prohibited meat and vegetarian food, but also strictly prohibited eating vegetarian food. People and tourists have been eating meat and vegetables for thousands of years, forming a unique and famous "vegetarian food" in Mount Jiuhua.

2. Jiuhua Buddha Tea

Jiuhua Buddha Tea absorbs the moisture of mountain fog and dew day and night, and absorbs the aura of exotic flowers and herbs. The soup is green in color and has a sweet aftertaste. At the same time, due to the high mountain climate, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and there are few people in the area. The tea garden is free of pests, diseases, pesticides and industrial pollution. It is a natural and organic ecological tea garden. Jiuhua Buddha Tea is a geographical indication certification trademark.

3. Jiuhua vegetarian cake

Jiuhua vegetarian cake is refined from vegetarian food, polygonatum, mung bean powder, etc. in Jiuhua Mountain. The added "polygonatum" is a growth factor. A kind of Liliaceae herbaceous plant in Jiuhua Mountain, with fleshy flesh. Adding Polygonatum sibiricum to plain cake after processing can make the cake more oily but not greasy, and make the cake smell fragrant and taste sweet.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area