the history of yandang mountains is quite long. the time when human first went here and built their house could be traced back to southern and northern dynasties. however, when it comes to middle yandang mountain, it was song dynasty when the chin-shih li shao-he(chinese: 李少和) first came here and built a taoism temple. then more and more people came here because of the fame of li shao-he and religious ethos.