I had always assumed that the craggy mountains in traditional Chinese art were poetically licensed exaggerations of a convoluted landscape ... until I went to Guilin and found them as magnificently improbable as the painterly renderings.
(Sorry for the funky photo. It was an Ectachrome slide that deteriorated for years before I scanned it … from a shot that was technically flawed to start with.)
Good one, Terry. It made me look up the formation of karst mountains: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/how-were-guilins-magical-mountains-formed/
Once again, terrific, Terry.
And I, too, Love Crouching Tiger..the scenery incredible!