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that it would be a good plan to have a convenient resting place in that particular spot. At the summit of the mountain there is a large stone on which are carved the characters Ko Shaan Tai Yat (**ALL**) "The best high mountain” which are supposed to have been written by Hon Yue (898) a very famous scholar of the T'ong dynasty, who was born in A.D. 768 and died A.D. 824.
The present Chinese name of Tsing Shaan, “green mountain' is derived from the fact that the grass on it always appears green, even though the surrounding hills may be burnt up and brown during the rainless winter months.