Jiangxi Province - Lushan Mountain (Mount Lushan) 庐山

To Lushan residents, the connection between Mount Lushan, culture and history dates back to more than 6,000 years. Its grotesque peakes and spectacular streams have been witnesses to religious, academic and political events.

More than 4,000 poems, essays and over 400 stone inscriptions praise Mount Lushan’ s charming scenery. Mount Lushan also boasts a 1,600-year history of international exchanges. The mountain has offered shelter and retreat for monks and priests practicing Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Catholicism and the faith of the Orthodox Eastern Church. More than 360 temples and churches have been built on the mountain over the years. The setting creates a spectacular landscape.

Mount Lushan is famous for its magnificent scenery during different seasons. In spring, it is like a dream wreathed in swathes of thick mist; in summer, abundant rains drench the mountain; the autumn views are intoxicating; and in winter, the mountain changes into a world of white jade, covered by thick snow and frost. The summit has views that are beyond comparison on a clear day.

At the 20th Conference of the UN World Heritage Committee, held in Mexico in 1996, Mount Lushan was approved for inclusion on the list of “World Cultural Heritage.”

A cinema was built at the foot of Mount Lushan. It has shown the film “The Romance at Lushan” nearly 10,000 times over the past 20-odd years, and its audiences have now reached over 1.5 million. The cinema claims the longest showing of a single film, the largest number of showings for a single film and the greatest number of viewers to a single cinema for the same movie. This record will be further secured, because the movie is still being shown. It has become a must for tourists traveling to Mount Lushan. Fall foliage renders any vista in the region positively breathtaking.

The late Chairman Mao Zedong held three important meeting in 1959, 1961, and 1970 respectively in Mount Lushan. Mount Lushan is the only mountain where the tourist can find more than 1,000 villas, displaying the characteristic features of 18 countries and monuments to 6 religions. The 302-square-kilometer scenic region features 470 scenic spots and more than 170 peaks. Hanyang Peak is the highest, with an elevation of 1,474 meters above sea level. China planned in August 2000 to build 310 geological parks in the next 10 years to protect its natural sites, eight of which were put on the world geo-heritage list by UNESCO on February 13, 2004. Those eight parks are Mt. Lushan in Jiangxi Province, Mt. Huangshan in Anhui Province, Mt. Yuntai and Mt. Songshan in Henan Province, Stone Forest in Yunnan Province, Danxia geomorphology (or morphology) in Guangdong Province, Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province, an Wudalianchi in Heilongjiang Province. 2004年2月13日，中国江西庐山、安徽黄山、河南云台山和嵩山、云南石林、广东丹霞、湖南张家界、黑龙江五大连池八处地质公园被联合国教科文组织命名为全球首批世界地质公园。Experts agreed that Mount Lushan features the remains of the Fourth Ice Age and is valuable in the study of geology, ecology, meteorology, and botany. In addition to hundreds of natural tourism sights, Lushan Mountain also has 200 newly discovered geological remains of significant importance. Those who make it to the top will be rewarded with scenery rivaling that of any other area in the province.

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