Tianzhushan

I like Tianzhushan (TZS), visiting in 2016, but it barely meets WHS in my opinion. It also seems to try REALLY hard to cover all criteria which I think will boil down to 2 at the most (not taking bets). I went here without any idea about the tentative inscription plans and thought of it more as a "mini Huangshan" because it looks so similar with the granite rocks and isn't far away from the famous yellow mountain. I spent a day here taking the cable car up and doing the circle hike plus up to the "Gleam in the Sky" peak. On this hike I don't find you can catch much of the criteria it tries to justify for an inscription almost as if hiking the mountain is not the best way to see the value it is proposing? Instead of an apparently famous "Peacocks Flying Southward" poem in the rock I get presented with lots of funky-looking stones like the elephant, parrot, 

The Cliffside stone inscriptions: they are on like EVERY mountain in China, seriously. Find me one without (not taking bets). So what's special here is that they range from many dynasties like an "art museum" - I can't say that I saw most of these and as I said because other mountains already show enough of these that I didn't spend extra time checking them out.

Archaeological sites and Xuejiagang Culture, can't comment on this from my trip.

Peacocks Flying Southward is one …