Mountain Copper Scenic Area is 30km far away from the east of Biyang County.
It is famous of steep, weird hills and flourish trees. There is a legend that once Zhangsanfeng (a famous shadow boxing master of Ming Dynasty) built palace here to teach shadow boxing. Several years later, he went to Mountain Wudang and became well-known. Because of this quotation, it is called:“South peak is Wudang; North peak is Mountain Copper.”It once has south and north two Taoist palace, on the peak has three Buddhist palace, today the south palace is still existing. It is a symbol of Buddhist and Taoist which are well mingled. Mountain Copper Lake Forest Garden is a national forest garden. It has a lot of floristics and animal species, such as gingkgo, China fir, leoparol, otter, zibet and white-head pheasant. In 1994, it was authorized provincial beauty spot by He'nan Province. |