Yunmeng Mountain 云梦山

About Yunmeng Mountain

Qi County was anciently called Zhaoge, is described as one of the places where Shang culture originated, and is the setting of the Investiture of the Gods stories. Within it Yunmengshan is called the first ancient military academy of China: local and municipal accounts hold that Guiguzi, personal name Wang Chan, a thinker, diplomatist and military theorist of the Warring States, taught here, and that Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin, Pang Juan and Mao Sui were trained under him. This is a transmitted tradition rather than an excavated finding, and it is what the mountain's reputation rests on.

The rock of the mountain carries a body of cliff inscriptions, dated in the national schedule from the Song through to the Republican period. Those inscriptions were listed by the State Council in 2006 in the sixth batch of national key cultural heritage protection units. The mountain is also one of Hebi's 4A-rated scenic areas, registered by the province at that grade.

What to look for

• The cliff inscriptions cut into the mountain's rock, protected as a national key cultural heritage unit and dated in the official schedule from the Song to the Republican period.
• The dating range recorded for the inscriptions in the national schedule, running from the Song dynasty through to the Republican period.
• The Guiguzi tradition as it is presented on the mountain, the reason Yunmengshan is called China's first ancient military academy.
• The Taihang setting of the site, on the mountain front above the old Zhaoge country of Qi County.

Location & getting there

Getting to Yunmeng Mountain

Check weather, trail access and the last return service. A mountain or forest area is not one entrance, and a map’s central pin may be far from the trailhead.

• Search for 云梦山 with 鹤壁市 and 淇县.