Mt. Qiyun is situated in Xiuning County, 15 km west of the downtown of the county. It is one of the four Taoist Mountains in China.      

Mt. Qiyun consists of 9 peaks, rising 585 meters above sea level, covering an area of 60 square kilometers, also called Mt. White. It is one of the three famous mountains in South Anhui, and the other two are Mt. Huangshan and Buddhist Mt. Jiuhua. It's famous for it used to be a Mecca for Taoist believers. Mt. Qiyun has a long history of Taoism. The Taoist religion in Mt. Qiyun began in Tang Dynasty, thrived in middle Ming Dynasty, declined in late Qing Dynasty.

Many Taoist elements can be found over this mountain, such as Taoist temples, tablets, caves, steles, inscriptions and so on. They are of high calligraphic, religious and historical value. Mt. Qiyun is actually a calligraphy history museum, it has 305 handwriting carvings on cliff and 232 engravings on steles or tablets, and two of those are outstanding: "Tian Kai Shen Xiu" and "Danxia landform" or "Danxia physiognomy".