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When Shanghai-based decorator Guo Qingshan posted a abrogation photograph connected Valentine's Day and captioned it "Puppy Mountain," it became a sensation successful China and adjacent created a tourer destination.
Guo had gone connected a hike portion visiting his hometown of Yichang successful cardinal China's Hubei state successful precocious January. When reviewing the photos, helium saw thing helium hadn't noticed before: A upland shaped similar a dog's caput rested connected the crushed adjacent to the Yangtze River, its snout perched astatine the water's edge.
"It was truthful magical and cute. I was truthful excited and blessed erstwhile I discovered it," Guo said.
In this photograph taken Jan 20, 2025 and released by Guo Qingshan, a presumption of the "puppy mountain" which went viral implicit the net successful China seen successful Yichang.
Guo Qingshan via AP
"The puppy's posture is similar it's drinking water, oregon it's looking astatine immoderate fish. It besides looks similar it's softly protecting the Yangtze River," helium said.
Guo's station connected Chinese societal media app Xiaohongshu, oregon RedNote, received 120,000 likes wrong 10 days. On the media level Weibo, the hashtag #xiaogoushan - Chinese for "Puppy Mountain" - drew millions of views.
Dog owners started to station pictures of their dogs to spot which 1 had the closest resemblance. Many radical traveled straight to the determination successful Yichang to spot the upland for themselves and immoderate adjacent brought their dogs to instrumentality photos.
"Puppy Mountain present I am!" 1 societal media idiosyncratic wrote connected RedNote on with photos of the mountain. "Just changeable the puppy's caput and past everything volition beryllium OK." Another societal media idiosyncratic commented: "We each request the eyes to spot the quality successful this world."
Yang Yang, who lives astir an hr and fractional from the location, drove determination with her friends and her 2-year-old grey poodle named Yang Keyi.
"I was truly blessed to spot the mountain," she said. "I ever question with my canine if possible, truthful Puppy Mountain and my ain small canine truly match."
The upland is successful Yichang's Zigui County, wherever it tin beryllium seen from an reflection deck. The Yangtze River, the longest stream successful China and the third-longest stream successful the world, flows done the mountainous area.
After Guo's photograph went viral, galore radical shared photos of the presumption they antecedently had taken from the aforesaid deck, galore saying they hadn't realized it looked similar a dog. Some discussed however the dog's quality has changed implicit the years.
Yichang nonmigratory Shi Tong said helium knew helium had seen the upland before, and posted a photograph helium took of the determination successful 2021.
"After I saw the Puppy Mountain photograph online, I tried to look up wherever it is. And past I realized that I person been to this spot before. I thought it looked similar a canine astatine that clip too!"
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