Kwun Yum Shan, Mountain peak in Yuen Long District, Hong Kong.
Kwun Yam Shan is a 546-metre granodiorite peak whose summit lies inside Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, on the border of Yuen Long and Tai Po Districts, branching north from Tai Mo Shan. The summit carries the Dragon and Phoenix Pillars at its entrance and a statue of Kwun Yam.
The Qing-era San-on County Gazetteer records a Kwun Yam Temple on the summit, which gave the mountain its name; the gazetteer noted its sharp rise and its religious role for local people. A statue of Kwun Yam still stands at the peak today.
The mountain takes its name from Guan Yin, a figure in Chinese tradition who represents compassion and mercy. A temple once stood at the summit, reflecting the spiritual role this place held for the community.
The mountain can be reached via marked hiking trails starting from the Kadoorie Farm grounds. A shuttle bus service also operates on the premises, offering an alternative to walking the trails.
The hole beside the Kwun Yam statue on the summit is called Hot Pots (熱氣洞, "warm-air cave") in Chinese, not a volcanic feature: it vents warm air in winter. The mountain's rock was mapped as granodiorite, reclassified in 2008 as altered intrusive rhyolitic hyaloclastite, with large quartz crystals and veins of quartz, pyrite and galena.
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