Are you talking about the mountains? Dashan is the Chinese name of mark rowswell. He was born in Ottawa on 1965. 1984 was admitted to the East Asian Department of the University of Toronto and began to study China Studies. His Chinese name was Lu Shiwei. 1988 After graduation, he was selected into the Sino-Canadian exchange program and walked to the Chinese Department of Peking University.

By chance, he attended CCTV's New Year's Eve party and played a young man named Dashan in the sketch. His excellent performance made the name "Dashan" a household name overnight, and he regarded it as the mountain of China. Later, he learned crosstalk from Jiang Kun, a famous crosstalk performer, and continued to perform on stage and TV screens all over the country. His fluent and pure Chinese and profound understanding of China culture touched many people in China. Quyi magazine commented on Dashan: "After hard study and years of artistic practice, Dashan's language level and artistic performance skills are becoming more and more mature, which won unanimous praise from experts and audiences at Quyi Festival."

At first, the audience in China defined Dashan's role simply: Dashan is a "foreign comedian" who speaks Chinese very well. But Dashan's career is not limited to having fun on the stage. His work involves many fields such as culture, education, commerce and public welfare. Dashan has been working and living in China for 20 years, and gradually developed into an all-round Chinese and foreign friendly ambassador.

"One of the most influential foreigners in China since the reform and opening up". In 2002, Dashan was officially listed in the Who's Who of Canada. In 2004, Dashan was named "Top Ten Outstanding Young People in Beijing" and became the first foreigner to win this honor. In 2006, Dashan won the Canadian Medal, Canada's highest lifetime achievement award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries.

The overseas edition of People's Daily once commented: "Dashan is a foreigner, but not an outsider".