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The sacred Mount Tai was the object of an imperial cult for nearly 2,000 years, and the artistic masterpieces found there are in perfect harmony with the natural landscape. It has always been a source of inspiration for Chinese artists and scholars and symbolizes ancient Chinese civilizations and beliefs. The Song started as just another short-lived dynasty of North China during the Five Dynasties period. The founder of this dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, also known as Emperor Taizu, ended the fragmentation and turbulence with military force and established a highly centralized government. Military force, however, might achieve only temporary results if it failed to legitimize itself in the eyes of the people. One of the urgent tasks for the new government of the Song was, therefore, to resume the classical system of rituals and ceremonies through which an announcement of the dynasty’s reception of the Mandate of Heaven could be made.