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People like to use “pearl sea and white cloud” to describe the natural beauty of Guangzhou. Baiyun Mountain refers to the mountain range located 7.5 km north of Guangzhou and made up of 30-odd peaks, with an area of 28 sq. meters. The highest peak, Moxing Ridge (Star-scrapping Ridge) stands in the center of Baiyun Mountain, measuring 382 meters in height, also called “the First Peak under the Southern Sky”.
In fact, Baiyun Mountain is the ending range of Dayu Mountains in the south. It stands up over the flat area of the Pearl River Delta, called “the First Mountain of Southern Yue” in history. The mountain was named Baiyun (White Cloud) Mountain because of “White cloud flying over Baiyuan Mountain, and gathering around its base”. “Wind Soughing in the Pines on Baiyun Mountain” is one of the former “Eight Sights of Guangzhou”, the name coming from the sounds when wind blowing the pines on the mountain.
Baiyun Mountain is a bit rectangular, measuring 7 km from south to north, and 4 km from east to west, aged around 400 million years, one of the oldest mountains in Guangdong. It has gorgeous scenery and abundant historical relics. Among the past and present Eight Sights of Guangzhou, besides “Wind Soughing in the Pines on Baiyun Mountain', there are 'Pujian Spring', 'Looking afar in the evening from Baiyun Mountain”, “The Returned Monk at Jingtai”, “the Splendid Mountain of Cloud”, etc., which depict all the beautiful scenery of Baiyun Mountain.
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