Zhongshan Scenic Spot

Zhongshan Scenic Spot locates in Nanjing of Jiangsu with Mountain Bell (Purple Mountain) and Xuanwu Lake as the center. Zhongshan Scenic Spot is undulating, running as floating dragon, including Purple Mountain, city wall of Ming Dynasty, Xuanwu Lake, and connection parts between mountain and lake, Fugui Mountain around the lake, Fuzhou Mountain and Jilong Mountain and several low mound, cities wall and castles as well. The Spot is characterized by blue mountain and green water, the well integration of mountain, water, town and forest. Viewing from Mountain Bell, all the sceneries such as Wuzhou Smoke Willow, Ten-Mile Spring Breeze, Beam Wave and Wall Shadow of Yan Que Lake, Forest Pearl of Purple Cloud Lake are in full view and make people completely relaxed and happy. Fugui Mountain, Fuzhou Mountain and Jilong Mountain are packed with beautiful scenery and lush vegetation. The natural beauty of wild forest, together with the unique delicate construction, makes the Zhongshan Scenic Spot as the high-class combination of natural beauty with humanity beauty.Around three sides of Xuanwu Lake are the mountains with one side facing the City. Mountain Bell stands at the east side of the Lake, the ancient city is close to southwest, and Fugui Mountain, Fuzhou Mountain and Jilong Mountain are located at the south. In addition, the beautiful and lush vegetation are expressing themselves fully to each other, Zhaoyang and Mufu Mountains run along the north side of the Lake, surrounded by mountain city and packed with a great number of famous places of interests along the Lake. Xuanwu Lake used to be called as Sangbo, Moling Lake, Hou Lake and Kunming Lake. It is said that, during Liu-Song Period, a black dragon appeared, hence its name Xuanwu Lake. In Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi has issued the new law, changed the lake into field, therefore, from then on, Xuanwu Lake disappeared. In Ming Dynasty, the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang built up high walls and began to recover the Xuanwu Lake and made it the natural moat.The east suburb of Nanjing which was the capital city of six dynasties in Chinese history takes the first place in terms of mountain quantity and it is called as Jinlin Mountain in ancient time. The mountain got its name because the Kingdom of Chu had established Jinlin City here. In Han Dynasty, people began to call it Mountain Bell and its name changed into Purple Mountain in Eastern Jin dynasty due to its purple rock, its peak assuming purple cloud looking from afar. Three peaks of Mountain Bell are connected as a huge dragon. Mountain, water and city integrate into a whole, characterized by splendor and grandeur. Thus, there is an ancient saying of “Dragon dominated in Mountain Bell and Tiger occupied the Stone City”. Mountain Bell locates at the junction of North Temperate Zone and Subtropical Zone, serving as the transitional region for plants of south and north. It boasts a great number of plant varieties and flourishing forests as well. The Zhongshan Tomb of Dr. Sun Yat-sen who was the forerunner of the Chinese revolution was here together with tombs for other famous people who joined the Chinese revolution. In addition, there are still many famous places of interests such as Sun Quan Tomb, Xiao Mausoleum of the Ming, Linggu Temple and so on.