Mountain Songs, 山之歌 Shānzhigē, is a bilingual, database website, fully searchable, which connects ancient (and some modern) Chinese poetry to the sites where the poetry was written or written about. It enables you to experience the same sights that the poets themselves viewed hundreds of years ago.   The design of Mountain Songs is unique in the way you can view Chinese characters and download text. At first all users view the poems in an attractive Chinese font that we have selected. You do not need Chinese fonts on your computer to view this graphic. However, click on the 'Text Mode' box and the font will instantaneously covert to text which you can download and edit! (Assuming you have Chinese capability installed.) Click again and it will return to the graphic font. The best of both worlds; handsome graphics and text combined in a seamless, 'graphic to text to graphic' software package.     So, put on your hiking shoes, take a trek through China's past, chat with Chinese poets, and read their poetry on site. But be careful, Chinese poetry is contagious!   Your comments and suggestions for correction or improvement are welcomed. We hope you enjoy the site and that soon you have the opportunity to chant some of these poems alone on a misty mountain top in China.   (This website is under construction. Please bear with us!)