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Changbai Shan Travel Guide
Changbai Shan or Changbai Mountains has a location and a history shared by both China and Korea but its beauty is regularly being admired by many people from all around the globe. Even before this mountain range on the border of China and North Korea became a famous nature-worshipper's paradise, it had been literally worshipped by its surrounding peoples since time immemorial.
Since China's Jin Dynasty (265-420 BC), emperors and locals have invoked the mountain's gods, even considering it as the mythical birthplace of Manchu and Qing Dynasty founders. From the Three Kingdoms Period (57 BC), the faithful Korean people have venerated the mountain as "divine." Even today, many mountaineers and thrill-seekers see the mountain as the start of something special—be it conquering one of the 2,000-meter summits, loosening up in a hot spring, or simply walking through primitive forests teeming with whimsical life-forms.
A natural mega-zoo and botanical garden, Changbai Shan is part of Jilin Province's Changbaishan National Nature Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve for its sparkling Tianchi Lake (Heaven Lake), aerial park, hot springs, waterfalls, and mountains covered with a mixed forest of over 80 kinds of trees, more than 300 medicinal plants, and countless flowers as well as rare animals such as bears and Siberian tigers.
Faithful to its meaning as an ‘Eternally White Mountain,' Changbai Shan turns into a Winter Wonderland from October to May, although the best time to visit is September to see the park's ‘defrosted' delights such as the highest peak, Baekdu or Baitou Mountain, a former volcano with a crater lake named Tianchi (Heaven Lake), the source of both rivers and sublime beauty. The lake marks the boundary between China and Korea and is near the 225-foot Changbai Waterfall and the Tianchi Hot Springs, whose therapeutic waters are hot enough to boil eggs.
From Baihe, buses travel frequently to Changbai Shan. In the past, it was taboo to set foot on the mountain. Anyone seen in the park was beaten to death. Now, the descendants of those who persecuted Changbai Shan's visitors have even garlanded the mountain's foot with bath houses and hot spring resorts.
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