After quitting his job, he ran off to live in seclusion in the Zhongnan Mountains.
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culture
终南山 (Zhongnan Mountain) lies just south of Xi'an in Shaanxi and is one of the most famous hermitage ranges in China - Daoist masters, Buddhist monks, and modern dropouts have all sought refuge there.
history
The phrase 终南捷径 ('Zhongnan shortcut') comes from a Tang scholar who feigned reclusion on the mountain to attract imperial attention - a sly route to office disguised as withdrawal from the world.
