Just returned from Jiujiang, sharing some honest truths
by @ndr3w D@v.s
May 3, 2025
**From divine sanctuary to international village🏡,
One mountain encapsulates half of China's cultural history!**📜
🌟 Mount Lu · Certified Top Attraction
✨ Li Bai visited 5 times|Su Shi's must-see|Bai Juyi's chosen home
📜 Tao Yuanming penned 125 pastoral poems here🌾
🎬 Pioneering silver-screen kiss in *Romance on Lushan Mountain*💋
🌍 UNESCO World Heritage|❄️ Top 4 Summer Retreats
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🕰️ Time-Folded Layers of Mount Lu
1️⃣ Celestial Abode · Mythical Realm🧙♂️
▪️ Zhou Dynasty: Kuang Xu ascended as immortal⚡️, leaving "Divine Hut" namesake
▪️ Wang Xizhi built "Goose & Ink Ponds"🦢, donating residence as Lu's oldest temple
▪️ Master Huiyuan founded Pure Land Buddhism🕉️, gathering elites in White Lotus Society
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2️⃣ Poets' Colony · Tang-Song Poetry Haven📚
▪️ Li Bai's five climbs: "The waterfall flies down three thousand feet"💦
▪️ Bai Juyi's "Thatched Cottage Guide"🏡: Spring blooms💐 Summer clouds☁️ Autumn moon🌕 Winter snow❄️
▪️ Su Shi's lament: "No regret vanishes until you witness this!"
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3️⃣ Academy Sanctum · Neo-Confucian Epicenter🎓
✅ Zhu Xi revived White Deer Grotto Academy🦌, core of Song-Ming philosophy
🔥 Nurtured 102 imperial scholars|Wang Yangming lectured here
🏆 Crowned China's Top Four Ancient Academies!
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4️⃣ Global Village · Architectural Wonderland🏛️
▪️ 1894: British missionaries established "Guling"❄️ (Cooling transliteration)
▪️ 600+ villas: Baroque/Gothic/Veranda styles
▪️ Pearl S. Buck wrote Nobel-winning *The Good Earth*📖 here
✨ Six religions coexisting, open-air architectural museum
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🎞️ *Romance on Lushan* · Cultural Icon
🎬 1980 trailblazer featuring China's first cinematic kiss💋
👗 Zhang Yu's 43 Hong Kong fashion changes
🌄 Catapulted Lu into 1980s travel stardom
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This mountain is Chinese civilization's "layer cake"🍰:
Alchemists' mist🧪, poets' cascading ink💦,
Academy morning bells🔔, lilies outside Pearl Buck's window🌷,
Weaving the ultimate romance of "dwelling among mortals."
Walking Tao Yuanming's chrysanthemum path,
Lodging in Li Bai's cloud-gazing retreat,
You'll decipher the millennium-old riddle: "Truth hides within the mountain."
Reread Mount Lu⛰️
Witness how one peak became civilization's living abridgment!
#DiscoverLushan #JiangxiTravel #CulturalExploration #WorldHeritage
#SummerRetreat #PoetryLandmarks #HistoricalTales #HiddenGems
#AcademyCulture #GlobalArchitecture
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