This paper focuses on famous mountain research in China,starting with the background of human geography,using the ideas of environment reception and environment cognition which origin from behavioral geography,to study the relationship between human and famous mountains and to find out the reason how mountains became famous through the human activities and how they developed.Using this method this paper studies North Yandang Mountain which is situated in Southeast China from 423 AD when XIE Ling-yun went to the Jin Zhu Jian river at the south west of Yandang Mountain to the Qing Dynasty when North Yandang Mountain was developing smoothly.It comes to the conclusion that the developing period of North Yandang Mountain is divided into four parts: mountain marginal contact before Sui Dynasty;beginning period when some monks entered the mountain in the Tang Dynasty;flourishing period when the 18 ancient temples were built in the Song Dynasty;smooth developing period when the temples on the mountain began to eclipse and more and more people came here to visit the mountain in the Ming and Qing dynasties.Conclusively North Yandang Mountain is thought to be a famous tourism and dwelling mountain but is not a famous Buddhism mountain.By discussing the development process of North Yandang Mountain,this paper provides a feasible way for the study of the famous mountains in China.