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Huashan boasts a long history and has been favored by renowned scholars and literary figures since ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the works of Laozi, the great thinker, already recorded that "Huashan lies on the western border of Wu, where one may escape from hardship." After the eminent monk Zhi Dun came to open the mountain in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, renowned monks and scholars of successive dynasties came here to live in seclusion, transcending the worldly realm.