Yuelu Mountain
It lies in the west bank of Xiang River in Changsha City. The landscape is mainly composed of Lushan Mountain and the nearby rivers, ponds, plants and animals gardens and personnel landscape. Here the climate is warm and comfortable. The main peak in 300 meters high. It lies in the west bank of Xiang River in Changsha City. The landscape is mainly composed of Lushan Mountain and
the nearby rivers, ponds, plants and animals gardens and personnel landscape. Here the climate is warm and comfortable. The main peak in 300 meters high.
Yuelu Mountain is composed of natural scenery and personnel landscape. The natural scenery is strange, quiet, treasure and beautiful. In the landscape there are several thousand kinds of plants, among which there are a lot of famous and rare plants such as privet, ginkgo, camphor, spinulose tree, quassia, sweet gum, Chinese honey locustbladder catchfly. Besides, there are a lot of famous and rare birds and animals such as babbler, loriot, cuckoo, owl, woodpecker, parrot and fox, goat, pheasant. Yuelu Mountain is one of Eight Attractions in Xiaoxiang.
Yuelu Mountain has brilliant personnel landscape. For example, the poem written by Du Mu, "Stop the car and watch the maple leaves until late, the leaves covered by frost are more red than the flowers in February."
There are a lot of scenic spots in Yuelu Mountain such as Qingfeng gorge, Aiwan Pavilion, Lushan Temple, Yunlu Palace, White Crane Spring and Flying Stone.
Qingfeng Gorge lies in the low place Between Yuelu Academy and Lushan Temple, where the scenery is quite beautiful. In it there are Aiwan Pavilion. Aiwan Pavilion lies in Qingfeng Gorge and was built in A.D.1792. Its original name is Red Leaf Pavilion and later according to the poem written by Du Mu, it was changed the name. Mao Zhedong once played and studied here in the course of study period and the remaining tablet was written by Mao Zedong in the 50s. It was supported by four red poles. There is a tablet with the poem, "Qinyuanchun-Changsha" written by Mao Zedong.
The history of activities for Taoism in Yuelu Mountain is quite long. And Yuelu Palace was built in A.D.1478, the region has been as the activity center of Taoism since then.
Yuelu Mountain has a lot of attractions and very pretty thus it is the good place for tourists.
Notes:
1. Yuelu Mountain 岳麓山
2. Xiang River 湘江
3. Qingfeng Gorge 清风峡
4. Aiwan Pavilion 爱晚亭
5. White Crane Spring 白鹤泉
6. Flying Stone 飞来石
7. Yuelu Academy 岳麓书院 |