Yingke Pine (Receiving Guests Pine) is o­n the left of the Yuping building next to the lion stone. The height is 10 meters and the chest diameter is 0.64 meter. The age of the tree is at least 800 years. o­ne of the branches stretches out like a person's outstretching arms welcoming the visitors from all places and the posture is exquisite. It is Yellow Mountains' symbolic landscape.
Huangshan is beautiful all year round. In spring (March to May), all flowers blossom, pines turn green and the birds sing beautifully. Summer (June-August) is the best time to appreciate the pines and prevent sunstroke. In autumn (September to November), tourists can see the pines, rocks, maples and chrysanthemum. In winter tourists could admire the snow and the rimed trees. When the weather is fine, you could view the grotesque rocks, when it is cloudy, you can appreciate the changing clouds, when it rains, you could see the springs and waterfalls, when it snows, you could see the crystal tree and Rimed tree, when it is windy, you could listen to the sound made by the swinging pines. You could be satisfied in any kind of weather.

    There is Yellow Mountains' Yingke Pine's giant iron picture in the Great Hall of the People Anhui hall. The party and the national leader take a group photo with the foreign visitors many times in front of the iron picture. Yellow Mountains' Yingke Pine not o­nly symbolizes Yellow Mountains', but also symbolizes the Chineses' warm hospitability. In 1994 the Great Hall of the People East hall also hung the traditional Chinese painting "Yingke Pine". The author was the Yellow Mountain nationality painter Liu Hui.