Tiantai Cliff Carvings

Tiantai Cliff Carvings

The Tiantai Cliff Carvings are a cultural relic protection unit of Anhui Province.

There are over twenty ancient cliff carving sites on Tiantai Mountain in Jiuhua Mountain, distributed along the cliffs at altitudes ranging from 600 to over 1,340 meters. The more than twenty ancient cliff carving sites of Tiantai in Jiuhua Mountain are spread across cliff faces along the mountain ridges at elevations between 600 and over 1,340 meters, situated alongside the roughly 5-kilometer-long stone-paved path of Tiantai. The carvings were created across three historical periods: the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China. Key contributors include Zhu Zuoding, the Qing Dynasty governor of Anhui during the Kangxi era, Xu Shiyin, the governor of Anhui Province during the Republic of China, Sun Yuanliang, commander of a Kuomintang army group, Tang Shizun, and other notable figures. The inscriptions feature clerical script, semi-cursive and regular script styles, and were carved using intaglio, relief, and bas-relief techniques. These carvings hold significant historical and artistic value and are an important cultural resource for the sustainable development of tourism in Jiuhua Mountain.

Protected Area: Extends from the “One-Line Sky” and the cliff carving cluster at the main peak of Tiantai down to the “This Is the Immortal Realm” carving at Chaoyang Hermitage, within a 50-meter radius.

Construction Control Zone: Within a 100-meter radius around the cliff carvings.