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Lushan
Mountain Lu or Lushan (, Gan: Lu-san), officially named Mountain Lu National Park, is a mountain in China. It was also known as Kuanglu () in ancient times. It is situated in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, and is one of the most renowned mountains in the country. Mount Lu is located primarily in Lushan county-level city in Jiujiang Prefecture, although the northern portions are found in Lianxi District which was formerly known as Lushan District and until 2016 covered the majority of the Mount Lu. The oval-shaped mountains are about long and wide, and neighbors Jiujiang city and the Yangtze River to the north, Nanchang city to the south, and Poyang Lake to the east. Its highest point is Dahanyang Peak (), reaching above sea level, and is one of the hundreds of steep peaks that towers above a sea of clouds that encompass the mountains for almost 200 days out of the year. Mount Lu is known for its grandeur, steepness, and beauty and a prominent tourist attraction, especially d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiujiang
Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city in Jiangxi province. ''Jiujiang'' literally means "nine rivers". It is one of the first five cities open to foreign trade along the Yangtze River after Chinese economic reform, Chinese Reform and Opening policy. It is Yangtze River shipping hub international gateway, and Jiangxi's only international trade port city. Jiujiang Port is the fourth largest port on the Yangtze River. Its population was 4,600,276 inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 1,164,268 in the built up area made of 3 urban districts (Xunyang District, Xunyang, Lianxi District, Lianxi, and Chaisang District, Chaisang). In 2007, the city is named China's top ten livable cities by Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Foru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lushan City
Lushan City (), formerly Xingzi County (Singtze; Hingtzu) (), is a county-level city in the north of Jiangxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jiujiang. Administrative divisions Lushan City is divided to 7 towns and 1 township. ;7 towns ;1 township * Liaonan () Climate See also * Guling, Jiangxi Guling, formerly romanized as Kuling, is a summer resort located on top of Lu Mountain in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China. It was formerly a resort reserved for European missionaries. Now it is the tourist and administration center of the Lu ... References External links County-level divisions of Jiangxi Jiujiang {{Jiangxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Deer Grotto Academy
The White Deer Grotto Academy (, Gan: Pak-Luk-Tung Su-yon, sometimes translated as White Deer Cave Academy or White Deer Hollow Academy) is a former school at the foot of Wulou Peak in Lushan, now in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. It was one of the Four Great Academies of China, and today it is maintained as an important landmark. History The academy had its beginnings as a place for the pursuit of learning by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bo (李渤 Lǐ Bó, d. 831, not to be confused with the more famous Tang poet Li Po () or Li Bai) when he was living in retirement. As Li Bo kept a white deer, he was known as the White Deer Teacher and the school premises themselves as the White Deer Grotto. In the years 937–942, when the area was under the control of the Southern Tang, a school was officially established here under the name "Lushan Guoxue" or "Lu-san Goet-hok" (廬山國學, meaning "Mount Lu National Institute"), by Li Shandao. In the early years of the Northern Song dynasty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiangxi
Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" is derived from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The abbreviation for Jiangxi is "" (; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called ''Ganpo Dadi'' () which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po". After the fall of the Qing dynasty, Jiangxi became one of the earliest bases for the Communists and many peasants were recruited to join the growing people's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuling Poster In 1920 S
Kuling (), now called Guling, was a summer European missionary resort located on top of Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, China. Now it is the tourist and administration center in the Mountain Lu National Park, a World Heritage Site. , it has 5 residential communities, 2 villages, and 4 other neighborhoods under its administration. History European settlement history Kuling, now called Guling, on the slopes of a wide valley of Mountain Lu, was established in 1895 by the missionaries Edward Selby Little, Dr. Edgerton Haskell Hart and three others, as a sanitarium and rest resort for Western missionaries in southern China. They built their houses in the colonial style of architecture, and added churches, schools, and sports facilities. It was named by Little, as a pun: it is wonderfully ''cooling'' after the summer heat in the plains below. It was also a word that sounded conveniently Chinese to the local people, and has been adopted by them. Kuling was run by the missionaries in a Kuli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lianxi District
Lianxi () is a district in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. It was formerly named Lushan District, taking its name from Mount Lu, which was located inside its boundaries. In April 2016, jurisdiction for Mount Lu and Guling town was transferred to the newly renamed Lushan City Lushan City (), formerly Xingzi County (Singtze; Hingtzu) (), is a county-level city in the north of Jiangxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jiujiang Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang ... (formerly Xingzi County), and Lushan District was renamed as Lianxi. Administrative divisions Lianxi District has 3 subdistricts, 5 towns and 2 township. ;3 subdistricts * Shili () * Wuli () * Qilihu () ;5 towns ;2 township * Yujiahe () * Gaolong () See also * Changjiu Intercity Railway * Nanchang–Jiujiang Intercity Railway References {{authority control Jiujiang County-level divisions of Jiangxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lushan National Park
Mountain Lu National Park or Mountain Lu GeoPark (), is located in the region around Mount Lu, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang. The protected area of extends from the Yangtze River to the Poyang Lake basin. Landmarks ;Natural landmarks The park area features the effects of Quaternary glaciation, and exceptional geological upthrown fault scarps from the Quaternary age. The resulting stunning landscapes include: ''Lu'shan''—Mount Lu, other mountains and Summit, summit peaks, valleys, gorges, Gully, gullies, rock formations, natural caves, and waterfalls. ;Cultural landmarks The area also contains large numbers of Taoism, Taoist and Buddhism, Buddhist temples, as well as several landmarks of Confucianism. Conservation In 1996, Mount Lushan became an United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2004, the Lushan Geopark became a member of Global Geoparks Network. The park is a popular visitor and tourist attraction, and a cooler summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huiyuan (Buddhist)
Huiyuan (; 334–416 AD) was a Chinese Buddhist teacher who founded Donglin Temple on Mount Lushan in Jiangxi province and wrote the text ''On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings'' in 404 AD. He was born in Shanxi province but after a long life of Buddhist teaching he wound up in Jiangxi province, where he died in 416. Although he was born in the north, he moved south to live within the bounds of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Huiyuan was posthumously named First Patriarch of the Pure Land School of Buddhism. His disciples included Huiguan (慧觀), Sengji (僧濟), and Faan (法安). Life Huiyuan began studying the ''Zhuangzi'' and '' Laozi'' at a young age, as well as the teachings of Confucius. However, at the age of 21 he was converted in Hebei Province by the Buddhist Dao An, who was a Chinese disciple of a Kuchan missionary. Hearing the sermons of Dao An convinced Huiyuan to "leave the family" and embark on a life of Buddhist teachings.Ebrey, Cambridge Illustrated Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lushan Quaternary Glaciation National Geopark
Mountain Lu National Park or Mountain Lu GeoPark (), is located in the region around Mountain Lu, Jiujiang. The protected area of extends from the Yangtze River to the Poyang Lake basin. Landmarks ;Natural landmarks The park area features the effects of Quaternary glaciation, and exceptional geological upthrown fault scarps from the Quaternary age. The resulting stunning landscapes include: ''Lu'shan''—Mount Lu, other mountains and summit peaks, valleys, gorges, gullies, rock formations, natural caves, and waterfalls. ;Cultural landmarks The area also contains large numbers of Taoist and Buddhist temples, as well as several landmarks of Confucianism. Conservation In 1996, Mount Lushan became an UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2004, the Lushan Geopark became a member of Global Geoparks Network. The park is a popular visitor and tourist attraction, and a cooler summer destination. See also * Mount Lu—''Lu'shan'' — ''World Heritage Site''. * Members of the UNESC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tao Yuanming
Tao Yuanming (; 365–427), also known as Tao Qian (; also T'ao Ch'ien in Wade-Giles), was a Chinese poet and politician who was one of the best-known poets during the Six Dynasties, Six Dynasties period. He was born during the Eastern Jin dynasty (265–420), Jin dynasty (317-420) and died during the Liu Song dynasty, Liu Song (420-479) dynasty (Jin-Song transition). Tao Yuanming spent much of his life in reclusion, living in the countryside, farming, reading, drinking wine, receiving the occasional guest, and writing poems in which he often reflected on the pleasures and difficulties of life, as well as his decision to withdraw from civil service. Tao's simple and direct style was somewhat at odds with the norms for literary writing in his time. Relatively well-known as a recluse poet in the Tang dynasty (618-907), during the Song dynasty, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), influential literati figures such as Su Shi (1037-1101) declared him a paragon of authenticity and spon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. She was the first American woman to win that prize. Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. She and her parents spent their summers in a villa in Kuling, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Xi
Zhu Xi (; ; October 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200), formerly romanized Chu Hsi, was a Chinese calligrapher, historian, philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty. Zhu was influential in the development of Neo-Confucianism. He contributed greatly to Chinese philosophy and fundamentally reshaped the Chinese worldview. His works include his editing of and commentaries to the Four Books (which later formed the curriculum of the civil service exam in Imperial China from 1313 to 1905), his writings on the process of the "investigation of things" (), and his development of meditation as a method for self-cultivation. He was a scholar with a wide learning in the classics, commentaries, histories and other writings of his predecessors. In his lifetime he was able to serve multiple times as a government official, although he avoided public office for most of his adult life. He also wrote, compiled and edited almost a hundred books and corresponded with dozens of other schol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
