The full-text translation of Xu Xiake's Travel Notes of Huangshan Mountain

Original text:

On the sixth day, the sky was very bright. The guides went up the mountain and crossed the second path. Seen from the upper left, the stone peak is clamped around, and its main stone steps are leveled by snow, which looks like jade at first glance. Among the sparse wood velvet, I saw the peaks and knots and the sky stood upright. For miles, the steeper the level, the deeper the snow, and the frozen snow in the shade turned into ice, which was too slippery for the toes. Before I stand alone, I cut ice with a stick, so I got a hole to put my front toe, and then I cut another hole to move my back toe. All practitioners follow this method. Up to Pinggang, Lotus Peak and Yunmen compete for beauty, if they are the guardians of heaven. Therefore, it is all strange to hang loose knots. The high one is not full, the low one is only a few inches, the flat top is short, and the packaging is dry. The shorter the older, the smaller the more magical. Unexpectedly, the strange mountain still has this wonderful work!

When Songshi reflected, a group of monks from Ran Ran came down from the mountain. They all clapped their hands and said, "It's March in the snowy mountain, and I'm here to find food. What is the reason for waiting for the public? He added: "We all went down the mountain in Qianhai, but the Houhaishan Road was not opened, and the Lotus Cave is feasible. "I have climbed from the side of Tiandufeng, crossed the peak and turned east to Lianhua East Road. I was eager to win the victory of Guangmingding and stalagmite, so I went north along Lotus Peak. Go up and down to Tianmen several times. The two walls are sandwiched, with broad shoulders in the middle and tens of feet high. This is dark and terrible. The snow inside is deeper, and the ice surface is cut and the top is flat, which is called Qianhai. This will reach a higher peak, and those who fall from the sky will be the top of light. From the bottom, the so-called Houhai also. Covering the sky, the yang is the front sea and the yin is the back sea. This is a very high place, surrounded by docks. It's like a flat land. Before Qianhai, the second peak of Tiandu Lotus was the steepest, its yang belonged to emblem, and its yin belonged to flat.

Yu Zhiping Tian Zhi wants to be clear and clear. The road was thirty miles, and I was very tired, so I entered Houyi Temple. Both monks and nuns live in the sun. The big monk said that he was wise and empty, and when he saw that the guests were hungry, he paid with porridge first. And he said, "The new day is too bright, and I'm afraid it won't be sunny." Because I was referring to a monk, I said, "If you have spare time, you can climb to the top of Guangming before eating, then you can still reach the stalagmites today, and you can stay in the teacher's office. When you reach the summit, the sky stands side by side with the lotus, and Cuiwei and Sanhaimen surround behind, overlooking the precipice and the dock, that is, the Prime Minister. When a stone reaches the top, it rises again. If the situation is interrupted, it hangs alone on the dock with a strange loose board cover on it.

(Excerpted from Xu Xiake's Travels, abridged)

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