Bagong Mountain Scenic Spot

Bagong Mountain Scenic Spot(Chinese:八公山风景区) is a national AAAA level scenic spot. It locates at Bagongshan District, Huainan, Anhui province. Mountain Bagong, known as a famous historic mountain, has many stories and legends like "ride/hang on someone's coattails"(Chinese: 一人得道鸡犬升天). Bagongshan Toufu created by Liu An is well-known across the world and it plays an irreplaceable role in Chinese cuisine. Besides, Bagongshan is the originating place of creatures. Fossils of Huainan, commonly known as "Huainan worm" was formed 800 million years ago. It is by far the Earth's earliest ancient fossils ever found by the international geological community entitled it as the "Blue Planet" on the source of life.

Bagongshan has a long history. During the ancient time, it was called Beishan(北山）or Zijinshan(紫金山). It was in primitive society, a tribe lived beside the Huai River. Then in Western Zhou dynasty, a kingdom was established named zhoulai(州来）whose capital city was at the foot of Bagongshan.

Besides,The name Bagongshan was originated from Lord Liu An's legend of becoming immortal. In Western Zhou dynasty, Bagongshan was a part of Huainan State. The governor of this state Liu An attached great importance to gather talents. Among all these talents, eight people was mostly appreciated. Thus they were called Bagong(八公). Liuan and his followers(Huainan Zi)studied about astronomical phenomena, formulated legislative plans and refined Chinese herbs. It was said that one day, Liu successfully made immortal medicine. Then, he became one of the immortals. However, during the process of making immortal medicine, Liu and his followers had mistakenly put gypsum into the soy milk, then tofu was accidentally made by this mistake.

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