Huashan Mountain, known as "Xiyue" in ancient times and "Taihua Mountain" in popular terms, is one of the famous five mountains in China. Here is the information about Huashan that I have compiled for you. I hope it will be useful to you!
Introduction to Mount Huashan
Mount Huashan was known as "Xiyue Mountain" in ancient times and "Taihua Mountain Mountain" elegantly. It is one of the famous five mountains in China and the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Originated from Huashan. It is located in Huayin City, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, 120 kilometers east of Xi'an, the provincial capital. Bordering the Qinling Mountains in the south and overlooking the Huangwei River in the north, it has been said since ancient times that it is the most dangerous mountain in the world. Huashan is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots, a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, and a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Huashan Mountain is the sacred mountain of the Chinese nation. According to the research of Zhang Taiyan, a master of Chinese studies in the Qing Dynasty, and experts and scholars of the past dynasties: the Chinese nation was first formed and lived in the "Zizhou of Huashan Mountain", and its land was named Hua. Later, wherever people traveled, it spread throughout Kyushu, and the name of Hua began to spread. The name "Huaxia" of China originates from Huashan. Therefore, Huashan is known as the "root of China".
Huashan Mountain is the holy land of the Quanzhen sect, the mainstream of Taoism. It is the "Fourth Cave" and is also a deity widely worshiped by Chinese people, namely the Lord God of Huashan Mountain in Xiyue. As of 2013, there are 72 semi-suspended caves and more than 20 Taoist temples in Mount Huashan. Among them, Yuquanyuan, Dulong Temple, Dongdaoyuan and Zhenyue Palace are listed as national key Taoist temples. There are Chen Tuan, Hao Datong, He Yuan Xi and other famous Taoist masters.
In 1982, Huashan was promulgated by the State Council as one of the first batch of national-level scenic spots; in 1991, Huashan was rated as one of the top 40 tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration; in 1999, Huashan was selected by the Central Civilization Commission and the Construction The Ministry of Tourism and the National Tourism Administration named it a national civilized scenic tourist area demonstration site; in 2004, Huashan was rated as one of the top ten famous mountains in China; in 2011, Huashan was rated as a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration.
Huashan Mountain is one of the nine major sun viewing spots in China. The sun viewing spot is located at the east peak of Huashan Mountain (also known as Chaoyang Peak), and the best location is facing the balcony.
Main Scenic Spots in Huashan
There are more than 210 famous scenic spots in Huashan, including long sky plank roads erected in the sky, kites turning in the air on three sides, and cliffs carved out of cliffs. Qianchi Building, Baichi Gorge, Laojun Furrow, etc. Among them, Huayue Celestial Palm is listed as the first of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong.
Xiyue Temple
Xiyue Temple was built in the Han Dynasty. It is an important place for emperors of all dynasties to worship the God of Mount Huashan, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit.
The Xiyue Temple covers an area of ??120,000 square meters. It was built in the early years of Yuanguang, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (134 BC). It was a place for Chinese feudal dynasties to worship Shaohao, the god of Huashan Mountain in Xiyue. There have been repairs and constructions in all dynasties, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1777), the current scale pattern of a heavy city-style structure with six courtyards was formed. It is the largest existing Ming and Qing style royal palace in the northwest. Style ancient building garden community. It is grand in scale, rigorous in layout, and similar in shape to the Forbidden City in Beijing. It is known as the "Shaanxi Forbidden City". Because it was built earliest and has the largest area among the Five Mountains Temples, it is called the "First Temple of the Five Mountains".
The architecture of Xiyue Temple is quite magnificent. The Wufeng Tower is built on a high platform, more than 20 meters high. When you climb the tower to look at Mount Huashan, you can clearly see the five peaks. The main hall, Haoling Hall, is a glazed tiled single-eaves hilltop building, located on a broad convex-shaped platform. It is 7 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep. It is surrounded by cloisters and is magnificent. Emperors of all dynasties often lived here to worship Mount Huashan. . Hanging in the hall are plaques inscribed by Kangxi, Daoguang and Cixi such as "Jin Tianzhao Duan" and "Xian Yun". The entire courtyard is full of lush trees and rugged rocks, making it full of garden interest. There are many steles in the Xiyue Temple, including the "Huayue Temple Stele" from the Later Zhou Dynasty, the "Huashan Inscription from the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty" re-engraved in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Huashan Reclining Picture" engraved by Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, with Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Chen Tuan, etc. Famous people in the Tang and Song Dynasties wrote poems and pictures of Huashan. There are also Qianlong's imperial books? Yue Lian Lingshu? Shi forehead. There are many steles in the Xiyue Temple, including the "Huayue Temple Stele" from the Later Zhou Dynasty, the "Huashan Inscription from the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty" re-engraved in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Huashan Reclining Picture" engraved by Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, with Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Chen Tuan, etc. Famous people in the Tang and Song Dynasties wrote poems and pictures of Huashan. There are also Qianlong's imperial books, Yue Lian Lingshu, and stone foreheads here.
Jinsuoguan
Jinsuoguan is a tower-like stone arch built at the entrance of Sanfeng. It is the choke point leading to the east, west and south peaks through Wuyun Peak. There is no way to go. In Du Fu's poem "Wang Yue", "There is a branch of arrows reaching the sky", which refers to this place. Taoists believe that Huayue is a fairyland, and only after passing through the Tongtian Gate can one enter the fairyland. Therefore, one has passed the Golden Lock Pass, and the other is a folk ballad that reaches the next level.
The Guanmen Gate Tower was built in the Tang Dynasty and was greatly remodeled and repaired by Taoist Hu Zhenhai in the late Ming Dynasty. In the 18th year of Kangxi's reign, the Taoist priest Yang Yin rebuilt it. In the 34th year of the Republic of China, Taoist Yuan Gaoshan rebuilt it. In 1955, Taoist priest Han Fasheng renovated the temple. Due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, the original building was destroyed and only remnants remained. In 1985, the People's Government re-established the closed door, and the structure and scale were better than before. Jinsuoguan is connected to Wuyun Peak in the north and the main peak of Huashan Mountain in the south. The ravines on the east and west sides are thousands of feet deep. There is only a one-meter stone path in front of the pass. Surrounded by green ancient pines, numerous strange rocks, and often surrounded by auspicious clouds, the scenery is very beautiful. In front of the pass, you can see the golden pheasant guarding the jade-shaped stone in the north, and the landscape of Laohukou in the west. Couple's locks and safety locks are placed on the iron ropes on both sides of the mountaineering road inside and outside the pass. They overlap each other, and the red ropes and colored lines sway in the wind. It is a beautiful scenery in front of the pass.
Canglong Ridge
Canglong Ridge is one of the famous dangerous roads in Huashan Mountain. It is located in the south of Jiku Tainan and at the foot of Wuyun Peak. It has a pale black exterior and a hanging dragon-like body. It is named after the terrain. Its rugged terrain and thousands of feet of canyons make many tourists frightened. The most famous one is the story of Han Yu crying and writing for help, which triggered a large number of related allusions and research, and the place also left a legacy? The cultural heritage of the bookstore.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as the imperial court increased the number of sacrifices to the gods of Huashan Mountain, major efforts were made to renovate the roads in Huashan Mountain. There were 250 stone steps in Canglong Ridge. Therefore, there is a folk story about Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, who excavated Canglong Ridge. The story goes that when Bi Yuan asked the stone workers to dig the ridge, it rained blood for three days in Chang'an City. It turned out that Canglong Ridge was a living dragon and was chiseled to death by Lord Bi. It is said that from now on, Huashan has cut off its dragon veins, and there will no longer be great figures like Yang Zhen and Yang Jian. During the Republic of China, the number of stone steps on the ridge increased to 350. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the People's Government expanded and repaired the Canglongling dangerous road several times, the guardrails were reinforced year by year, and the stone steps increased to more than 530 levels. In order to prevent congestion on the ridge during the peak tourist season, the Huashan Administration Bureau opened a climbing trail on Feiyu Ridge in the east of Canglong Ridge in the spring of 1998 to ensure the safety of tourists.
The Long Sky Plank Road
The Long Sky Plank Road is located outside Nantianmen and is the first of the famous dangerous roads in Huashan Mountain. The plank road is divided into three sections: from Nantianmen Shifang to the west of Chaoyuan Cave, the road is carved out of the cliff, 20 meters long and about two feet wide, which is the upper section.
It folds down, and the cliff gap crosses the iron rod, which is like a hanging ladder in the air. Visitors must pull the rope down step by step, which is called "chicken under the frame" and is the middle section.
Then turn west to form the lower section. The road builders dug stone holes in the cliff, wedged in stone piles, and set up three wooden rafters between the stone piles. Visitors to this point must face the wall and lie on their belly, and move laterally with their feet on the wooden rafters. Move forward.
The Sky Plank Road is the most dangerous among the dangerous roads in Huashan Mountain. Throughout the ages, there has been an endless stream of adventurous explorers, many of whom were literati and celebrities, and many of them have been recorded down the ages. Li Panlong, one of the last seven sons of the Ming Dynasty, recorded in his "Taihua Mountain Records": Going west from Nantianmen is the plank road. Although the plank is protected by copper pillars and iron cables, it is not wide enough. Walk more than twenty feet to the end. The lower part is turned into a well, about three feet high, and the side part is turned into a stack. ?
The Thousand-foot Building
The Thousand-foot Building is located on the Huixin Stone and is the most dangerous place in Huashan Mountain. The mountain walls are upright, allowing only two people to walk up and down. The iron chains on both sides hang down vertically, with a slope of 70°. There are more than 370 steps from top to bottom, none of which are wide enough.
At the top of the "Thousand-foot Building", there is a stone cave that can only accommodate one person. When a visitor climbs the last stone step, he will drill out of the hole, so the cave is called "Patio". There is a platform on the "Patio" with the inscription "Taihua Throat", which vividly illustrates the road shape here. The "Bai Chi Gorge" on the platform is the upper section of the throat, and the platform below the gorge is shaped like a protruding throat. The thousand-foot building below the patio is the lower part of the throat. The entire road here is shaped like a person's throat and esophagus, which is narrow, protruding and long. The entrance to the patio is in the middle of Taihua Throat. If it is blocked from then on, there will be no way up and down. Han Zipei, a remnant of the Kuomintang, once placed an iron cover at the entrance of the Tianjing in an attempt to defend Mount Huashan. Eight warriors of the People's Liberation Army flew over the natural barrier and eliminated a squad of troops stationed here, opening the way for reinforcements.
The Thousand-foot Building was opened in the Han Dynasty. The original climbing road is not at this site, but at Huangfu Valley on the east side of Huashan Mountain, where King Zhao of Qin ordered Gong Shigou to climb Huashan Mountain. There are still two stone carvings left under the Dongfeng Botai. According to "Qi Xiu Lei Bian", there is no way to pass the Lianfeng Road. Someone saw apes climbing up and down the cliff from Beidouping. The explorer followed the monkey path and discovered this mountaineering road. Du Fu's poem "Thousand-foot Building" was only briefly mentioned: "The carriage enters the valley with no way back, and there is a door that reaches the sky." ?After liberation, the number of tourists increased year by year, and the road underwent two major repairs. Later, a compound road was opened at Qianchizhuang and Baichixia, which were respectively the ascending path and the descending path.
Baichi Gorge
Baichi Gorge is located in the north of Qianchizhuang and is the second dangerous place when climbing Mount Huashan.
"Bai Chi Gorge" is also called "Baizhang Cliff". The two walls were about to close, but were pushed open by two flying stones. People crawled under the stones, trembling with fear, fearing that the stones would come from behind. Falling between the two walls, this is the "Jingxin Stone". After passing this stone, my heart was relieved, and I looked back at the two stones stuck here. They were large and small, so they were safe and sound, so this stone was also called the "Pingxin Stone". In Han Yu's poems, there are descriptions of sudden magical power and murderous aura.
Kites Turning
Kites Turning is located on the east peak of Huashan Mountain. It is the only way to the chess pavilion. It is one of the famous dangerous roads in Huashan Mountain. The road is cut into the inverted ridge of the East Peak. On the cliff, looking down, I can only see cold ropes hanging in the sky, but no path. Visitors to this point must face the wall, use their toes to explore the stone nests, and alternately descend. During several steps, they must turn their bodies left and right like a hawk to pass, hence the name "Kite Turning Over".
In recent years, the Huashan management department has comprehensively renovated the kite turning dangerous path, dug deep foot sockets, stone steps, and replaced iron cables in many places.
From the perspective of visual impact, the kite turning over is not as good as the long sky plank road, but the kite turning over is more difficult. First, the stairway is tilted and tilted inward. Secondly, the iron chain is too loose and swings too far from side to side, making it difficult to grasp firmly. Furthermore, people are climbing from top to bottom, and the cliff slopes inward, making it difficult to see where to stand.
This requires the full cooperation of hands, eyes, feet, and knees. During the whole process of the kite turning over, there can be no slack at all. The hands should be firm, the eyes should be pointed, the knees should be supported, and the feet should be planted firmly. Be attentive and focused. In terms of difficulty, this kite turn over has one star more than the sky plank road. Be cautious and test with your feet if you can't see. Climbing down the rock one pit at a time. There is a small section of chain with only one side that can be grasped. This section requires a good balance of the body.
Laojun’s Furrow
Laojun’s Furrow is located above the Qunxian Temple. It is said that there was no road here originally. It was Laozi Li Er who drove a green ox and used an iron plow to open it. It is shaped like The furrows left when plowing the land are called "Laojun's furrows". In the early days, people climbed up and down Huashan Mountain from the stone nests on both sides of the furrows. People can still see the stone nests on both sides of the furrows. Local legend: Thousand-foot buildings, hundred-foot gorge, Laojun's furrow slowly crawls. ?
?Laojun’s Furrow? Like Qianchizhuang and Baichixia, it is one of the dangerous routes to climb Mount Huashan. Today, there are 271 stone steps carved into the upper right part of the furrow, with iron chains hanging down on both sides, making walking safer.
?Laojun Furrow? was originally ?Laojun Li Gui?. In Taoist terms, this means leaving the dust and reaching the fairyland. It is said that Li Er, the founder of Taoism, once visited here, so it is the place where Laojun left the world. ?Because "Li Gui" has the same pronunciation as "furrow", and this place looks like a furrow, and there are also legends about the Wo Niu Stone, the Green Niu Tree in Yuemiao and the place where Laojun hung his plow in Beifeng in Huashan Mountain, so people think this place is "Laojun plows the furrow" is no different.
The best bridal chamber in the world
The word "bridal chamber" in "bridal chamber night of flowers and candles" comes from the West Peak of Huashan Mountain. In the past, because Huashan Road was dangerous and difficult to climb, most people were discouraged. This provided an excellent place for some early people who wanted to practice in secret. It was difficult to find materials to build temples on the mountain, so the hermits dug stone caves to live in and practice and enlightenment.
According to legend, Xiao Shi, a flute player practicing in Huashan, and Princess Nongyu, the daughter of Qin Mugong, went to Xifeng Lotus Cave to light candles and get married before they both rode a crane and became immortals. A bridal chamber? That’s where it comes from. Therefore, Huashan Mountain is the mountain of love and the witness of love. Whether you are a couple who loves each other, or you are a lover for the first time, a trip to Huashan together will surely bring you deep love. Today's Lotus Cave is full of inscriptions and has a strong cultural atmosphere. It is a good place for tourists to take a break on their way to explore sweetness. In recent years, the scenic spot management committee has successively held "Huashan Witness" collective weddings. More than a hundred couples have got married in Huashan, making the ancient mountain of love perfect and fashionable.
Maonv Cave
Maonv Cave is the abbreviation of Maonv Cave Lower Courtyard. It is located under Maonv Peak and is named after Maonv.
Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty once praised Maonv: "She transformed into jade ginger and escaped with the times." The real person teaches the prescription and eats the pine trees. The cause and effect is successful, and the life is prolonged and auspicious. I am proud of Yaxiu and send my joy to you. In the early Song Dynasty, after Chen Tuan went to Huashan to live in seclusion, he also wrote a poem "Ode to the Mao Girl", describing the mood of the Mao Goddess: "He once broke pine branches to make treasure knots, and weaved chestnut leaves to make rut." Sometimes when I ask about the affairs of the Qin Palace, I smile and twist the fairy flowers and look at Taixu. ?
Later, the legend about Mao Nu became more and more strange. In the early years of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Tao Taibai went to Huashan to collect medicine and said that he not only met Mao Nu, but also talked with Mao Nu. Cai Yuanchang was worshiping Huashan in the Yue Temple. He heard the anecdotes about Mao Nu and thought about it. The entourage found a strange thing in the Yuemiao brewing furnace and told Yuan Chang. When he looked, it turned out to be a woman with green hair all over her body, piercing eyes, and walking like flying. Later, Cai Yuanchang ordered people to paint a portrait of Mao Nu and sacrifice it every year. Yan Guangmin, a native of the Qing Dynasty, expressed deep sympathy for Mao Nu's plight and complained about the feudal burial system: "People say Mao Nu Peak, and Mao Nu Qin is often heard." If you want to write about the resentment of the Qin Palace, there are many sounds in the empty mountain. According to legend, the melodious sound of drums and harps often comes from Maonv Cave. Therefore, Maonv Cave is famous far and near. The "Baidou Ping" on Mao Nu Cave is said to be the place where Mao Nu, despite being hungry and cold, worshiped Beidou in the dead of night.
Today, Maonv Cave still exists, but due to the difficulty of climbing and being blocked by wattle grass, it has been deserted for a long time. There was originally a temple built under Maonv Peak, which was called the Lower Courtyard of Maonv Cave. The locals directly called the lower courtyard Maonv Cave. The original building was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and the current building was rebuilt in 1987.
Quanzhen Rock
Quanzhen Rock is a famous cultural landscape in Huashan and one of the top ten unsolved mysteries in Huashan. It is a huge rock hanging and leaning towards the south from the top of the pine juniper peak. You can reach the foot of the rock from the Nantian Plank Road. There is He Lao Stone Chamber in the belly of the rock. It was a place for self-cultivation opened by He Zhizhen, a Taoist priest of the Quanzhen Sect in the early Yuan Dynasty.
There are many records in various historical records about Quanzhen Rock. "Sancai Tuhui" records: There is a rock next to the quiet room, dozens of feet high, covering the room far away, with the words "Quanzhen Rock" written on it. According to the "Huayue Illustration", each of the three characters of Quanzhen Rock is about seven or eight feet high. It is impossible for ordinary people to carve it in such a place except for gods who can soar into the clouds and ride in the mist. Wang Lu, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, described the image in his "Nanfeng Ji": the rock is like the head of a bent man, far covering the stone chamber of the abdomen. The top of Daokan Rock is engraved with the word "Quanzhen Rock" and painted in red. There are no gods in the world, and the carving must be done by humans, but in such a special location, it is impossible to go up and down, unless it is suspended in the air. How the ancients did this remains unclear.
Historical records also record that someone once offered a large reward for the inscription on the rock, but they finally gave up because they could not reach the place where the inscription was. Folk legend inscribes what He Zhizhen did.
Zhenwu Hall
It was built to worship Emperor Zhenwu, the god of the north who guarded Kyushu. Jiao Gong Stone Chamber, Xian You Gong and Shen Tu Cliff are all named after the legend of Jiao Dao Guang. According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Taoist priest Jiao Kuang, also known as Dao Guang, lived alone on Yuntai Peak. He dined on the clouds and drank the dew, avoiding the valleys even if he missed grains. There were always three blue birds around him, reporting to him the future events. Emperor Wu Yuwenyong heard about his name, so he went to the mountain court to inquire about it in person, and ordered a palace to be built in front of Jiao Gong's Changchun Stone Chamber for him to live in. When the palace was built, there was no soil on the peak and there was a lack of lamp oil. Jiao Daoguang prayed silently, and soil poured out from the bottom of the cliff in an endless stream. The oil in the oil tank is also filled overnight and is inexhaustible. Later, people called the place where the soil poured out Shentu Cliff, and the place where the oil tank was placed was called Xianyougong.
The geology and landforms of Huashan
The Huashan Mountains are granite boulders of plutonic intrusive rock mass. The top is coarse-grained (grain diameter 5 mm) porphyritic granite; the middle is medium-grained (granite). diameter 2?5 mm) granite and gneissic granite. According to geological scientists using radioactive isotopes, the formation period of Huashan granite is about 121 million years ago. The crust in the Huashan Mountains area was active. During the process of extrusion, folding and cracking, magma began to flow toward the surface crust along the cracks. It rises and invades, cools at a depth of 3 to 6 kilometers, and condenses into rock.
Since the Yanshanian Period of the Cenozoic about 70 million years ago, the crust of the Huashan Mountains has continued to rise, while the Weihe River Zone has sunk downwards. This internal dynamic crustal action, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, intermittent, shows many flat triangular or trapezoidal surfaces juxtaposed on the east-west line, forming a large fault at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. These roughly parallel east-west faults cut the mountainous area into several long fault blocks. As the fault blocks rise and fall relative to each other, they often form a topography of alternating ridges and valleys that rise to the north and dip to the south. At the same time, many faults running obliquely from east to west also appeared, causing the original long strip fault block to be cut into multiple segments. Each section moves forward and backward, forming complex movements. Coupled with the interaction of various external forces such as rain, sunlight, freezing, running water, etc., the granite is directly exposed to the space.
The Huashan granite has many and obvious joints and faults running 20 degrees north to the west. Others are north-south, 30 degrees north to the west, 10 degrees north to the east, and 50 degrees north to the east. In addition, there are nearly horizontal faults and joints that divide the complete granite body into large and small rock blocks. During the cutting activities of the vertical and horizontal rivers, weathering and erosion formed a majestic mountain peak and many strange-shaped rocks. rock.
The three peaks in the east, west and south are dependent on each other in a tripod shape and are the main peaks of Huashan Mountain. The middle peak and the north peak complement each other, and the surrounding small peaks stand in awe.
Climate characteristics
Huashan Mountain is far away from the ocean, located between 30° and 60° north latitude in the westerly belt, with a continental degree of 53°7° and a warm temperate continental monsoon climate. Due to the tallness and steepness of the mountain, the vertical temperature gradient (or temperature lapse rate) between the foothills and the top of the mountain: the northern foothills, from the county seat to the peak, the altitude decreases by 0.44°C for every 100 meters of increase in altitude. The southern foothills are calculated based on Luonan. For every 100 meters of elevation increase, the temperature decreases by 0.5°C.
Temperature
Low mountainous areas (below 1,000 meters above sea level) have a temperate climate, with an annual average temperature of 9 to 14 degrees Celsius, an average temperature of the hottest month of 24 to 28 degrees Celsius, and a frost-free period of 180 to 240 days. , the daily average temperature is 5℃, 210-270 days is 10℃, and the annual accumulated temperature is 32000-4500℃ in 150-220 days.
The average temperature in high mountainous areas (above 1,000 meters above sea level) is less than 8℃, the coldest monthly average temperature is -2.5?-10℃, the absolute lowest monthly average temperature is -40℃, and the hottest monthly average temperature is 21?24℃ , the frost-free period is 120-150 days; the daily average temperature is 5℃, 150-180 days is 10℃, and the annual accumulated temperature is 1600-3200℃ for 120-150 days.
Precipitation
The annual precipitation in low mountainous areas (below 1,000 meters above sea level) is 600 mm, and in high mountainous areas (above 1,000 meters above sea level) is 800 to 900 mm. The precipitation at the northern foothills (Huayin Station) is 600 mm, the southern foothills (Luonan) is 725mm, and the summit (Huashan Station) is 925mm. Between 1000 and 1400 meters, it is the rainy zone or the maximum precipitation zone.
Clouds
The cloud cover in Huashan Mountain has obvious regularity. Clouds are most cloudy during the day in summer, and clouds usually thicken with height, creating updrafts. The peak is at noon, and the least cloudiness occurs in the morning. In winter, the opposite is true, and the least cloudiness occurs around noon. Cloud cover is highest in summer and least in winter.
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