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Rediscovering the "True Face" of Mount Lu

**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 — 🕰️ 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 — 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!" — 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! — 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 — 🎞️ *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 — 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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Posted: Jun 24, 2025
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