Mount Lu (Lushan)

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Lushan National Park, 1996); UNESCO Global Geopark; National 5A Tourist Attraction · Jiujiang, Jiangxi

A forested mountain rising abruptly above the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in northern Jiangxi, famed for its waterfalls, cliffs, mists and a history of poets, philosophers and politicians. Li Bai wrote of its waterfall pouring down three thousand feet, and Su Shi of how one cannot see the true face of Mount Lu while standing on it - a line that became a Chinese proverb. At its foot, Donglin Temple was a cradle of Pure Land Buddhism, and the White Deer Grotto Academy, revived by Zhu Xi in the 12th century, was one of the great academies of imperial China. From the 1890s Western missionaries and merchants built a hill station of stone villas at Guling on the summit plateau, later a summer retreat for Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling and the site of key Communist Party conferences in 1959 and 1970. Today visitors walk to the Three-Step Waterfall, Brocade Valley and the Immortal's Cave, watch clouds pour over the cliffs at Hanpokou, and stroll among the villas of Guling. Mount Lu is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape and a Global Geopark.

Guling Town, Lushan Scenic Area, Jiujiang, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China

Scenic area open daily; sightseeing buses about 7:30-16:20; cableways have annual maintenance closures (May 11-June 9 in 2026). Ticket valid 7 days.

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