Is Mount Tai open to the public 24 hours a day?
Yes, Mount Tai is open to the public 24 hours a day. Starting from 8:00 on March 21, 2020, the three tourist roads of Hongmen, Tianwai Village and Taohuayu in Taishan Scenic Area will resume 24-hour opening. The Taohuayu Tourist Road will be open for a limited time from 7:00 am to 17:00 pm.
Mount Taishan has extremely beautiful and spectacular natural scenery. Its main characteristics are majestic, strange, dangerous, beautiful, secluded and mysterious. The majestic, majestic, deep and graceful natural landscape of Mount Tai often makes the world sigh. There are also countless historical sites and cliff monuments, making Mount Tai a rare tourist attraction in the world that combines history, culture and nature.
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The historical status of Mount Tai
Mount Tai is also known as Daishan, Daizong, Daiyue, Dongyue and Taiyue. In ancient times, it was called Huoshan and Taishan. The shape of "big" can be seen in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and its pronunciation is "Tai". And "Taishan" means "big mountain". In ancient pre-Qin texts, "大" and "太" are commonly used.
"Pianya Xun Compilation·Explanation of Names": "The ancients did not add dots for Tai in many cases, such as 大 Later generations added points such as Ji, Dachu, Dashi, Dashi, and University to differentiate between big and small, so they were divided into two. "According to the traditional pronunciation of ancient characters, "大" also has three sounds: "大", "太" and "大".
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, due to the extension of homophones and the evolution of synonyms, "Tai" and "Tai", "Dai" and "Dai", "Dai" and "Yue" have also been interchanged, so that "Taishan", "Daishan", "Daizong", "Daiyue" and other special terms have appeared one after another. Name.
The name "Taishan" was first found in "The Book of Songs". "Tai" means great, smooth and peaceful. The original meaning of the word "tall and smooth" was extended to "big and stable, stable and safe", and then the sayings "as stable as Mount Tai", "the country is peaceful and the people are safe", and "Mount Tai is a feather".