Mt. Yaowangshan Pictures

Eighty kilometers north of Xi'an is Yaowangshan, a revered holy place where a great physician named Sun Si-Miao lived during the Tang Dynasty. He was a herbalist, who ever wrote several books about medicine that became very famous in China's history. Later, to memorize him, people called his mountain residence Yaowangshan. Yaowang means an expert of medicine. The mountain is serene and picturesque.