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Yuelu Mountain (simplified Chinese: 岳麓山; traditional Chinese: 嶽麓山; pinyin: yuèlù shān) is located on the west bank of the Xiang River, one tributary of Yangtze River in Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan. [1] Its main peak and the highest point, Yunlu Peak, is about 300.8-metre (987 ft) above the sea level. [1]
Yunlu Palace (simplified Chinese: 云麓宫; traditional Chinese: 雲麓宮; pinyin: Yúnlù Gōng) is a Taoist temple located on the south side of Yuelu Mountain, in Yuelu District of Changsha, Hunan, China. [1] [2] It was originally built in 1478, but because of war has been rebuilt numerous times since then, with the last major one done in 1976.
Yuelu Mountain is named after the "Nanyue Ji" written in the Liu and Song dynasties in the Southern and Northern dynasties, which states that "the surrounding area of Nanyue is eight hundred miles, with Huiyan as the head and Yuelu as the foot." Yuelu Mountain is located on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in Yuelu District, Changsha City ...
In the period of the Chenghua Emperor, the monks and the government rebuilt Lushan Temple. [1]In the period of the Wanli Emperor, Miaoguang (妙光禅师) rebuilt a main hall, a Buddhism goddess Guanyin hall and the depositary of Buddhist texts.
Yuelu is an important cultural district with a long history and profound cultural deposit in Changsha. The Yuelu Academy (later become Hunan University) founded in 976 (the 9th year of the reign of the Song dynasty) is on the east side of Yuelu Mountain; in the south is the University Town Zone where there are many universities including:
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In the autumn of 768, Du Fu came to Tanzhou (now Changsha) from Chengdu Prefecture, crossed over to his friend Wei Zhijin (韦之晋), prefectural governor of Tanzhou. [1] When he arrived, his friend had died. [1] At first he lived on a boat. Later, he rented a house by the Xiang River and named it "River Pavilion" (江阁). Two years later, he ...
The Huiyan Peak is the south end of the peaks, Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City is the north end, and the Zhurong Peak is the highest at 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) above sea level. At the foot of the mountain stands the largest temple in southern China, the Grand Temple of Mount Heng (Nanyue Damiao), which is the largest group of ancient buildings ...