At a time when ecological degradation and loss of biodiversity have been taking place at an alarming rate, in Yunnan a large number of plant communities and species are preserved in various sacred sites, a kind of landscape patches which are formed and traditionally protected for cultural belief reasons.

As a transcendent noumenon condition,sage of extent reached,as well as kingdom of Heaven of Christ,has absolute nature of perfection and character of getting something done once and for ever.

His pursuit of natural taste was obviously related to Taoism,but he consistently regarded soul-searching as the core of his thinking and took the realization of the realm of saints and sages and the pursuit of benevolent government as his goal.

The Philological Interpretation of "Saint";

But in Commentary on Iqing,the "divinity" is pulled down from altar and gradually closes to being "saint" on the descending way of godhood.

There are four types of principal colony playing the major role successively in the history of Chinese culture, they are Deity, Saint, Scholar and Folk.