Tai’an
Tai’an is home to Mount Tai is one of the “Five Sacred Mountains”. It is associated with sunrise, birth, and renewal, and is often regarded the foremost of the five. Mount Tai has been a place of worship for at least 3,000 years and served as one of the most important ceremonial centers of China during large portions of this period (source Wikipedia). All the great leaders of China from Confucius to Chairman Mao have climbed the 7,000 steps to the Jade Emperor Peak, and so did we…in one long day.
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