八公山

Bāgōngshān
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Mount Bagong, hill near Shouxian and Huainan in Anhui

Examples

HSK 1
Bāgōngshān zài Ānhuī Huáinán.
Mount Bagong is in Huainan, Anhui.
HSK 7-9
Fú Jiān zhàn zài chéng shàng, bǎ Bāgōngshān shàng de cǎomù dōu kànchéng le Jìnjūn.
Standing on the city wall, Fu Jian mistook the plants on Mount Bagong for Jin troops.

Tips

history
It gave Chinese the idiom 草木皆兵. Before the Battle of the Fei River in 383, 苻坚 looked out from the walls of Shouyang, saw the bushes and trees on the hill, and took them all for enemy soldiers.
culture
Legend says 刘安, king of 淮南 in the Han, invented tofu here while making elixirs with his eight learned guests, the Eight Masters who gave the hill its name. Bagongshan tofu is still the local speciality.

Stroke Order

八 bā
公 gōng
山 shān