UNESCO World Heritage SiteNational 5A Scenic AreaEast China
Mount Lu (Lushan)
庐山 · Jiangxi, Jiujiang
A misty mountain resort of peaks, waterfalls and villa architecture that inspired Chinese poets.
Mount Lu rises above the Yangtze plain and Poyang Lake, a cool, misty mountain of valleys, waterfalls and pine forests dotted with historic villas and temples. It has been a retreat for poets, monks and political leaders, and its sea of clouds and dramatic Three Step Waterfall are among its highlights.
Lushan's cultural fame stretches back over 2,000 years; the poet Li Bai celebrated its waterfall in the Tang dynasty, and it later became a missionary and summer-villa resort with hundreds of Western-style houses. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996 as a cultural landscape of outstanding harmony between nature and humanity.
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