Lushan Mountain- A World Heritage in China

Lushan Mountain, in 1996, was officially listed to be one of the world cultural heritages in China and written into the List of World Heritage. It is the first batch of national key scenic spots, advanced unit of national scenic area, national civilized scenic area, national sanitary and safe mountain as well as one of the top-ten famous mountains in China. In 2007, Lushan scenic area is formally permitted to be Five-A scenic area by National Tourism Bureau. The world-heritage experts of UNESCO commented Lushan Mountain has the high-level aesthetic value released in the historical relics and its uniqueness. Lushan Mountain is a famous historical and cultural mountain. Besides, Lushan Mountain is also a famous political mountain closely linking with Kuomintang under the leadership of former leader, Jiang Kai-shek, and Chairman Mao, the leader of China’s Communist Party.

Lushan Mountain is located in Jiujiang City of Jiangxi Province, and in the Poyanghu-Lake Basin. Lushan Mountain is an ellipse mountain with the length of 25 kilometers and width of 10 kilometers. It has more than 90 peaks. Lushan Mountain in natural landscape is famous for its magnitude, grandness, steepness and beauty. In summer, Lushan Mountain is an excellent destination for summer vacation and leisure. It is cool and cozy in summer.

Lushan Mountain is famous for its educational center, cultural center, religion center and political center. Since the ancient time, there were more than 1500 literary masters like Tao Yuanming, Li Po, Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo, Wang Anshi, Lu Fangweng, Huangtingjian, Zhu Xi, Hu Shi, and Guo Moruo and so on. More than 4000 poems, essays and songs are left. It is the center of Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism and Islam. The main peak of Lushan Mountain is Dahanyang Peak with the altitude of 1474 meters. Anciently there are 171 mountains, 20 valleys, 16 caves, 22 unique stones, 22 rainfalls, 18 streams and 14 lakes as well as pools.

Lushan Mountain has the rich species with the wood coverage rate of 76.6%. Roughly there are more than 3000 plants, 2000 insects, 170 birds and 37 animals. The foot of Mountain is a bird reservation, called the Crane Kingdom. Lushan Mountain belongs to the subtropical eastern monsoon area. The annual rainfall is 1017 millimeter. The foggy days in a year has 191 days. The relative humidity annually is 78%. The average temperature from July to September is 16.9 Celsius degree. The top temperature in summer is 32 Celsius degree. So thanks to its advantageous natural environment, it is the excellent summer resort in China. Many villas have been established and many famous residences of Chairman Mao, Jiang Kai-shek and others are easily discovered in the woods.

The elegance and mystery of Lushan Mountain are both deeply loved by multiple literators, artists, monks, Taoists and celebrities in politics and culture. Their love and behaviors enriched Lushan dramatically in cultural taste and historical status. Mountain-water culture is the spiritual results created by people following the natural landscape. It is an important part OF Chinese traditional culture. To some extent, due to those famous peoples appraise, Lushan Mountain is humanized by the sentiment of human. It is poetic, human-like. Numerous poets and essays activate it. Lushan Mountain is characterized by its poets, calligraphers, painters, writers, philosophers. Its cultural and historical relics enrich and raise its spiritual meaning in Chinese people’s mind and heart. Both as the world heritages, Taishan Mountain is created by emperors, while Lushan Mountain is created by bookish learners.

Actually, in modern china, it was added the features of politics. Tens of thousands of western style villas built by Britain, Russia, America, France and so on, which represents the western culture invasion, during 1930, it became the summer capital of Nanjing Kuomintang Government. The former residence of Mrs. Jiangs is kept well on the mountain. In 1937, Chou Enlai on behalf of CPC negotiated with Jiang Kai-shek and later released the important speech of anti-Japanese.

After the foundation of People’s Republic of China, Chairman Mao mounted up to Lushan Mountain and hosted three center-governmental meetings. Historically, they were called Lushan Meeting, Famous general of Communist Party of China; Peng Dehuai was deadly condemned here,due to his maintenance of right viewpoint. Latterly, he was dismissed to be the defense minister

There is also a famous attraction. Lushan Cinema with the most movie-playing times all around the world is the most special and particular cinema, because it plays the same movie everyday without any change in the past. The name of movie is Love in Lushan Mountain, in Pinying, Lushanlian. It is the only movie that plays most and has most audiences. It is also the only one for non-stop playing all around the world. In 2002, Guinness organization of British Headquarters officially awarded Chinese movie, Lushanlian to be the film that has the longest time for non-stop playing in the same cinema in the world.


Travel Tips

1 Set off from urban area of Jiujiang city, one hour or so will be cost to arrive in the foot of the mountain. But more time will be spent on getting up mountain. many rounds of mountain roads will be experienced, if you are not feel comfortable, some medicine concerned should be prepared.

2 Generally, one day time is needed for Lushan Mountain travel, so travelers leave their hotels, cruises or hostels in the daybreak, so some things should be carried such as umbrella, clothes, sports shoes and cameras.

3 On the mountain, people should be careful for its road, generally, the road is very steep, especially during the section of Jingxiu Valley, the path is narrow and hard to pass, but its landscape is the best section of Lushan Mountain.