White Cloud Mountain’s religion is Taoism, however, they put Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism together as a unity. Yufeng Li was the original sponsor of White Cloud Mountain. He was a Chinese doctor and a Taoist from Middle-south Mountain in China and good at Chinese medicine. He had an excellent reputation with his medical work, so that the people in that region called him a “True Person”. After his death, the people made a sculpture in one of the temples to show their respect to him. The main god in this set of Taoist temples is ZhenWu Ancestor who is the famous ancestor of Taoism. There are some caves for Buddhism. There is also a temple where Twelve animals representing the twelve Earthly Branches used to symbolize the year in which a person is born. A 60-year cycle used to count time in Chinese history is also there. The Han-Mongolian temple symbolizes that the people were against wars and hoped to have peace. In White Cloud Mountain, there are three temples where there are Du Mu Goddesses, Water Goddess, and five other Goddesses. White Cloud Mountain is a typical mix of religious traditions in China.
There are arts including sculptures, wall pictures, music, and writings in Whiter Cloud Mountain. Double dragons play balls, a golden cock arouses, rhinoceros looks up to the moon, the rabbits make herbs, five gods of Buddhism hold on the animals, carp skips through the dragon’s gate, and eight Taoists go over the sea. They are all sculptures, which are made by local folk artists. The wall pictures involve pictures of large people, narratives from generation-to-generation, natural beauties, and flowers and grasses. Some tourists left their writing styles, poems, and some pictures. White Cloud Mountain is a collection of Chinese arts.
White Cloud Mountain had a history of approximate 400 years. It has beautiful views. The government of Shaanxi Province once wrote a regulation to protect it as a natural area in 1957 and it also gave it a name as a Resort of Tourists in 1987. It has a special festival for a week at the beginning of Chinese April each year. It has been attracting more and more visitors from inside of China and overseas.
