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Image credits

None of these 23 photographs was taken for this guide. All are third-party works sourced from Wikimedia Commons and resized for the web.

Why this page exists

22 of the 23 carry a Creative Commons licence that requires a credit. Resizing a JPEG strips the rights metadata that came with it, so the licence survives only as a written record — this one. Each author link goes to the Commons file page, which is the authoritative statement of the terms.

ShareAlike 13 of these are CC BY-SA. ShareAlike attaches to derivatives of the photograph, not to the page that displays it: a cropped copy republished elsewhere carries the same licence, but using the image inside this guide does not make the guide a derivative work.
Not credited 1 is marked public domain and 9 are plain CC BY, which ask for attribution but not for a share-alike return.
The record

Every file, by where it appears

Licence and author read from each file’s Wikimedia Commons page on 15 October 2026. 11 people are credited.
File and useAuthorLicence
hero-zhangjiajie.jpgHome page bannerxiquinhosilvaCC BY 2.0
card-overview.jpgHome page · Forest Park cardRocio GilCC BY-SA 4.0
card-tianmen.jpgHome page · Tianmen card; Tianmen guideRaki_ManCC BY 3.0
card-bridge.jpgHome page · Grand Canyon card; comparison pageCodasCC BY-SA 4.0
hero-itinerary.jpgItineraries bannerchensiyuanCC BY-SA 4.0
hero-tianmen.jpgTianmen Mountain bannerxiquinhosilvaCC BY 2.0
hero-glassbridge.jpgGlass Bridge bannerSunyimingCC BY-SA 4.0
split-glass-bridge.jpgGlass Bridge guideאביהודCC BY-SA 4.0
hero-season.jpgBest time to visit bannerRocio GilCC BY-SA 4.0
card-season.jpgBest time to visit · weather sectionRocio GilCC BY-SA 4.0
hero-tickets.jpgTickets & costs bannerCodasCC BY-SA 4.0
card-tickets.jpgTickets & costs · passport sectionCodasCC BY-SA 4.0
split-avatar-pillars.jpgNational Forest Park bannerRocio GilCC BY-SA 4.0
card-itinerary.jpgWhere to stay bannerlienyuan leeCC BY 3.0
station-zhangjiajie.jpgMap & transport bannerCodasCC BY-SA 4.0
hero-huangshan.jpgChina’s mountains bannerMiaulianCC BY-SA 3.0
rail-emeishan.jpgChina’s mountains · six-mountain stripGeorge NCC BY 2.0
rail-huashan.jpgChina’s mountains · six-mountain stripOndřej ŽváčekCC BY 2.5
rail-huangshan.jpgChina’s mountains · six-mountain stripxiquinhosilvaCC BY 2.0
rail-wudang.jpgChina’s mountains · six-mountain stripWikimedia CommonsPublic domain
rail-taishan.jpgChina’s mountains · six-mountain stripxiquinhosilvaCC BY 2.0
rail-zhangjiajie.jpgChina’s mountains · six-mountain stripxiquinhosilvaCC BY 2.0
og-zhangjiajie.jpgSocial preview card on every page; comparison pagechensiyuanCC BY-SA 4.0

Licence names are the short forms Commons records. Where a file page and this table disagree, the Commons page governs.

Editorial review: 28 October 2026. Page and metadata review; operational notices retain their own dates.