MT.YUELU
MT.YUELU
MT.YUELU
Covering an area of 35.20 km2,Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot consists of Mt. Lu, Mt. Tianma, Juzizhou, Taohualing, Shijialing, Zhaiziling, Houhu and Xianjiahu Scenic Spot. The protection area in the perimeter of Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot is planned at 22.68 m2. At present, the construction of Mt. Lu and Juzhizhou scenic spot has finished while that of the Mt. Tianma is ongoing. Juzhizhou and Mt. Lu scenic spots were separately rated as national AAAA scenic area in 2001 and 2002.
Located on the Xiang River in Changsha among the first batch of national historic cities, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot is close to the river and faces the city. Now, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot has four core scenic spots, including Mt. Lu Scenic Spot, Juzizhou Scenic Spot, Yuelu Academy, Xinmin Institute. Integrating ‘water, mountain, islet, city’, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot is the national AAAA scenic area, the national key scenic, Hunan culture spreading base and patriotic education base.
Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot not only possesses the unique natural landscape of ‘water, mountain, islet, city’, but also is well known for its profound historic and cultural background. Dating from Northern Song Dynasty, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot has a history of more than a thousand years and thus is called the one-thousand-year academy. Up to now, Ancient Mt. Lu temple has a over-1700-year history. In the Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot, there are the Mausoleums of Huangxing, Cai'e and other celebrities and a great many culture relics. With the Huxiang culture, notable culture and religion culture gathering here, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot has a profound and ever-lasting influence.
In recent years, at the chance of building “energy-saving and environment-friendly society ” advocated by Changsha municipal committee and government, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot promotes the comprehensive improvement and the quality reform, strengthens standardized management and civilization and trys to set up a high-quality scenic spot with excellent plan, top-class scenic area, standardized management and wonderful service. The scenic spot takes on a new aspect. It has become the window and the excellent business card of Changsha to the outside world.
Mt. Lu Scenic Spot
Mt. Lu Scenic Spot
Overview of Mt. Lu Scenic Spot
Mt.Yuelu is the last peak of 72 peaks of South Yue, with elevation at 300.8 meters. Located on the west coast of Xiangjiang River, Mt. Lu Scenic Spot with an area of 5.28m2 is one of the core scenic spots of Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot, which is a very rare urban mountain scenic area.
Mt.Yuelu is a huge ‘Botanical Museum’, in which there are 174 families, 977 species botanies, and the typical subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest and Warm sub-tropical forest of needle leaves are the main forests ,and part of which still conserves original evergreen broad-leaved forest.
Mt.Yuelu is a propitious place with scenic spots around. There are 15 cultural heritage units over the provincial level here. The quiet Aiwan Pavilion, profound Yuelu Academy, the old house of Yuelu temple and others are attractive. Besides, the Mausoleums of Huangxing, Cai’e and other celebrities look more solemn and serene among luxuriant cypresses and pines.
Mt.Yuelu integrates Buddhism , Taoism , Confucianism of Chinese ancient culture essences and Mt. Yuelu’s culture connotation were created by thinking giant, great monks, and famous writers. At the foot of Mt.Yuelu stands Yuelu Academy, which is listed as the first of china’s four ancient academies. Yuelu Academy has never stopped teaching for more than 1000years, fostering a larger number of the backbones of our nation. At the mountainside stands the Ancient Mt. Lu temple with a history of more than 1700years, which is the source and center of Buddhism of Hunan province. At the top of the mountain is Yulu Tao palace, which is the 23rd paradise among 72 paradises of Taoism. Till now it has a history of more than 500 years. Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism coexist and integrate with each other, composing the epic of culture development of Mt.Yuelu.
Party and state leaders such as Jiang Zemin, Hu Jingtao, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun, Luo Gan, Wu Yi and others visited Mt. Yuelu scenic spot many times and gave great care and encouragement to the development of Mt.Lu scenic spot. Now, Mt. Lu scenic spot administration established in 1951 is a public unit at the vice-county level. The approved personals in the scenic spot are 480, among which there are 44 administers at vice-section level, 1 at county level, 2 at vice-county level. For the administration part, the scenic spot has two agencies, the Regulatory Agency and Industry Management Agency.
With the 60-year painstaking efforts, Mt.Lu scenic spot develops quickly, especially after quality-improvement conservation in 2006, the scenic spots, the landscape environment and the management level in the area improve a lot. The scenic spot was open to the public for free on June 1st, 2009 and are visited by over 3 million people annually.
Orange Isle Scenic Spot
Orange Isle Scenic Spot
Brief Introduction to Orange Isle Scenic Spot
Orange Isle tops the first among the famous islands in Xiang River. It rides through the center of the river from north to south. Moreover, to its west and east end, there lies Yuelu Mountain and the Ancient City. After the Orange Isle scenic spot was first put into construction in March, 1960, it came to be open to the public finally on October 20th, 1962. Then on June 10th, 2007, its name changed into Orange Isle Park Administration in Changsha. Thereafter,it renamed again into Office of Orange Isle Scenic Spot in Scenic showplace of Mt Yuelu in Changsha after it was officially listed the national AAAA landscape scenic spot region in 2001. As to the reputations of the Orange Isle, it ranks the national civilized tourism demonstration site, one of the first group of national classical “red tour” scenic spots, Provincial civilized Unit, Unit of a hundred scenic spots in Hunan and one of the eight beauties in Xiaoxiang. Besides, it is the core element in Changsha’s tour pattern that surrounds mountain/water/islet and city.
The original area of the tour region is about 17 acres, of which 6 acres is open to the public. The primary scenic spots include Orange Pavilion on the Isle, the stele with Poetry made in white marble, Bronze Statue Square, Pergola Square and the Site in memory of Chairman Mao when he visited Xiang River.
With a total land area of about 91.64 acres and a large number of investment funds that equaled 1.4 billion, the annual capacity of tourists can reasonably be estimated to reach 2.0946 million persons. As for the development and the construction of the whole scenic spots, it can be generalized as an axle with four regions. The axle here means the tour path that connects the north and south end. The four regions now refer to the core Scenic Spot, the tourism supporting service region, the beach park and the sports area for water activities.
The construction of the new scenic spot closely catches the theme of “ecology, culture, tourism and leisure”, during which the building could be fully utilized and perfectly conserved. Besides, in order to show its historical and cultural unique feature and create a dense atmosphere of “Red Tour”, the statue of Chairman Mao is regarded as the primary scene. The main scenic spots in the new tour region include: Wentian Platform, the islet park, Chairman Mao’s Artistic Statue at his youth, the orange orchard in a hundred acres, the culture garden and Orange Isle hotel.
In April 21st, 2009, under the approval of the municipal Party committee and the government of Changsha, Orange Isle Scenic Spot started to freely open to the tourists.
Four regions were divided in the construction of Orange Isle: Orange Isle Core Scenic Spot, the Beach Park, the Tourism Supportive service Region and the sports area for water activities. Among those, Orange Isle Core Scenic Spot is the most important part.
Yuelu Academy
Yuelu Academy
Brief introduction to Yuelu Academy
Yuelu Academy is situated at Hunan University in Yuelu Region Changsha County, which has a three-kilometer distance to the downtown. The floor space of the academy is more than 31000㎡ and the construction area reaches 11000㎡. What’s more important is that the Yuelu Academy is listed as the national AAAA scenic area, national key Scenic Spot, national civilized tourism demonstration site and important heritage site under state protection. Nowadays, it serves as an ancient heritage museum for demonstrating the ancient academy education and architectural style. Yuelu Academy was built in Kaibao 9th year in North Song (A.D.976) and ranked one the four ancient academies, having gone through several dynasties covering Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, in 1926, Yuelu Academy ultimately renamed Hunan University. Recently, it serves as an academy for fostering masters and doctors. Since it is the best-repaired, fullest-conserved and largest-scaled ancient academy, it is honorably called “A Millennium Academy”. In recent years, it has received more than 650 thousand tourists from all over the world and gradually become a center for collection, display, research and communication of academy culture relics.
Yuelu Academy has been well-known since Song Dynasty, and was under the title: one of the “Four Best Academies in the whole country”. During its thousand years, Yuelu Academy has been much popular for the famous people it has fostered. Between 1916 and 1919, young Mao Zedong lodged at the Banxue Room in Yuelu Academy several times to work on the revolutionary activities in seek of the truth of saving the Chinese people. From then on, large numbers of Yuelu teachers and students set themselves to the revolutionary work in the new democracy and caused a profound and ever-lasting influence to Chinese history.
Additionally, the academy is also famous for the elegance of the environment and beauty of the architecture. The extant architectural complex nearly was built in Ming and Qing Dynasty, of which the main architecture was lecture room, library and Confucious’ Temple in the function of teaching, collecting books and sacrificing.
Xinmin Institute
Xinmin Institute
Xinmin Institute
New People will learn to set up site cum sen's former residence, located in Changsha, Ying Zhou Xinmin Road, table bay, near the West Yuelu Mountain, east of the Xiangjiang River. In 1918, Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen and other progressive youth as "a collection of gay and creating a new environment" and initiated the establishment of Newman Society, in the same year on April 14 inaugural meeting was held in the former residence of the main room.
Xinmin Society aims first to "reform academic, tempering behavior, improved customs and people," determined after "transformation of China and the world" for learning policy. Before and after the May Fourth Movement, the New People Society launched a youth went to France to work-study movement in Hunan, leading the revolution in Hunan students find the truth, all walks of life to carry out a series of joint struggle against imperialism and feudalism. The core members of the New People learn to strong advocacy of Marxism and the Russian October Revolution, the establishment of the Russian Research Institute of Hunan, the founder of the Cultural Book, the formation of the Socialist Youth League in Changsha, and in 1920 founded the Communist Party of China, Changsha early organization. In 1921, Mao Zedong, Communist Party of China, Changsha Shuheng organizations on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party "a great" made for the creation of the Chinese Communist Party ideology, in theory, the preparation of cadres. Xinmin learn the fate of China had an extensive career and impact in the history of Chinese revolution, known as "Party Harbinger." Communist China "one big", the Institute completed its historic mission and automatically shut down.
Xinmin Society a total of 78 members, of whom 31 were in the early Communist Party members. Great proletarian revolutionary Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Shuheng, Xiang Jingyu, LUO Zan, Zhang Kundi, Guo Liang, Chen, Cai Chang and others are outstanding representatives of the Institute.
New People Society, founded in 1983 will be the former site of Hunan Provincial People's Government announced by the provincial cultural relics protection units, 1987 by original rehabilitation. Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun was the former site of the inscription, "the former residence of Cai Hesen," and the "New People will learn to set up site."
The former site of the core protected area is about 5,000 square meters, is a small gray tiles, bent wood, woven bamboo wall structure of the Qing Dynasty houses. Gallery organizing a "Citizen Society Party Harbinger" display and exhibition, the vast number of young people and the revolutionary masses to accept an important place for traditional education, is a cultural landscape and natural scenery melting as one of the patriotism education base and tourist attractions .
MT.YUELU
MT.YUELU
MT.YUELU
Covering an area of 35.20 km2,Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot consists of Mt. Lu, Mt. Tianma, Juzizhou, Taohualing, Shijialing, Zhaiziling, Houhu and Xianjiahu Scenic Spot. The protection area in the perimeter of Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot is planned at 22.68 m2. At present, the construction of Mt. Lu and Juzhizhou scenic spot has finished while that of the Mt. Tianma is ongoing. Juzhizhou and Mt. Lu scenic spots were separately rated as national AAAA scenic area in 2001 and 2002.
Located on the Xiang River in Changsha among the first batch of national historic cities, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot is close to the river and faces the city. Now, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot has four core scenic spots, including Mt. Lu Scenic Spot, Juzizhou Scenic Spot, Yuelu Academy, Xinmin Institute. Integrating ‘water, mountain, islet, city’, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot is the national AAAA scenic area, the national key scenic, Hunan culture spreading base and patriotic education base.
Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot not only possesses the unique natural landscape of ‘water, mountain, islet, city’, but also is well known for its profound historic and cultural background. Dating from Northern Song Dynasty, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot has a history of more than a thousand years and thus is called the one-thousand-year academy. Up to now, Ancient Mt. Lu temple has a over-1700-year history. In the Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot, there are the Mausoleums of Huangxing, Cai'e and other celebrities and a great many culture relics. With the Huxiang culture, notable culture and religion culture gathering here, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot has a profound and ever-lasting influence.
In recent years, at the chance of building “energy-saving and environment-friendly society ” advocated by Changsha municipal committee and government, Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot promotes the comprehensive improvement and the quality reform, strengthens standardized management and civilization and trys to set up a high-quality scenic spot with excellent plan, top-class scenic area, standardized management and wonderful service. The scenic spot takes on a new aspect. It has become the window and the excellent business card of Changsha to the outside world.
Mt. Lu Scenic Spot
Mt. Lu Scenic Spot
Overview of Mt. Lu Scenic Spot
Mt.Yuelu is the last peak of 72 peaks of South Yue, with elevation at 300.8 meters. Located on the west coast of Xiangjiang River, Mt. Lu Scenic Spot with an area of 5.28m2 is one of the core scenic spots of Mt. Yuelu Scenic Spot, which is a very rare urban mountain scenic area.
Mt.Yuelu is a huge ‘Botanical Museum’, in which there are 174 families, 977 species botanies, and the typical subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest and Warm sub-tropical forest of needle leaves are the main forests ,and part of which still conserves original evergreen broad-leaved forest.
Mt.Yuelu is a propitious place with scenic spots around. There are 15 cultural heritage units over the provincial level here. The quiet Aiwan Pavilion, profound Yuelu Academy, the old house of Yuelu temple and others are attractive. Besides, the Mausoleums of Huangxing, Cai’e and other celebrities look more solemn and serene among luxuriant cypresses and pines.
Mt.Yuelu integrates Buddhism , Taoism , Confucianism of Chinese ancient culture essences and Mt. Yuelu’s culture connotation were created by thinking giant, great monks, and famous writers. At the foot of Mt.Yuelu stands Yuelu Academy, which is listed as the first of china’s four ancient academies. Yuelu Academy has never stopped teaching for more than 1000years, fostering a larger number of the backbones of our nation. At the mountainside stands the Ancient Mt. Lu temple with a history of more than 1700years, which is the source and center of Buddhism of Hunan province. At the top of the mountain is Yulu Tao palace, which is the 23rd paradise among 72 paradises of Taoism. Till now it has a history of more than 500 years. Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism coexist and integrate with each other, composing the epic of culture development of Mt.Yuelu.
Party and state leaders such as Jiang Zemin, Hu Jingtao, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun, Luo Gan, Wu Yi and others visited Mt. Yuelu scenic spot many times and gave great care and encouragement to the development of Mt.Lu scenic spot. Now, Mt. Lu scenic spot administration established in 1951 is a public unit at the vice-county level. The approved personals in the scenic spot are 480, among which there are 44 administers at vice-section level, 1 at county level, 2 at vice-county level. For the administration part, the scenic spot has two agencies, the Regulatory Agency and Industry Management Agency.
With the 60-year painstaking efforts, Mt.Lu scenic spot develops quickly, especially after quality-improvement conservation in 2006, the scenic spots, the landscape environment and the management level in the area improve a lot. The scenic spot was open to the public for free on June 1st, 2009 and are visited by over 3 million people annually.
Orange Isle Scenic Spot
Orange Isle Scenic Spot
Brief Introduction to Orange Isle Scenic Spot
Orange Isle tops the first among the famous islands in Xiang River. It rides through the center of the river from north to south. Moreover, to its west and east end, there lies Yuelu Mountain and the Ancient City. After the Orange Isle scenic spot was first put into construction in March, 1960, it came to be open to the public finally on October 20th, 1962. Then on June 10th, 2007, its name changed into Orange Isle Park Administration in Changsha. Thereafter,it renamed again into Office of Orange Isle Scenic Spot in Scenic showplace of Mt Yuelu in Changsha after it was officially listed the national AAAA landscape scenic spot region in 2001. As to the reputations of the Orange Isle, it ranks the national civilized tourism demonstration site, one of the first group of national classical “red tour” scenic spots, Provincial civilized Unit, Unit of a hundred scenic spots in Hunan and one of the eight beauties in Xiaoxiang. Besides, it is the core element in Changsha’s tour pattern that surrounds mountain/water/islet and city.
The original area of the tour region is about 17 acres, of which 6 acres is open to the public. The primary scenic spots include Orange Pavilion on the Isle, the stele with Poetry made in white marble, Bronze Statue Square, Pergola Square and the Site in memory of Chairman Mao when he visited Xiang River.
With a total land area of about 91.64 acres and a large number of investment funds that equaled 1.4 billion, the annual capacity of tourists can reasonably be estimated to reach 2.0946 million persons. As for the development and the construction of the whole scenic spots, it can be generalized as an axle with four regions. The axle here means the tour path that connects the north and south end. The four regions now refer to the core Scenic Spot, the tourism supporting service region, the beach park and the sports area for water activities.
The construction of the new scenic spot closely catches the theme of “ecology, culture, tourism and leisure”, during which the building could be fully utilized and perfectly conserved. Besides, in order to show its historical and cultural unique feature and create a dense atmosphere of “Red Tour”, the statue of Chairman Mao is regarded as the primary scene. The main scenic spots in the new tour region include: Wentian Platform, the islet park, Chairman Mao’s Artistic Statue at his youth, the orange orchard in a hundred acres, the culture garden and Orange Isle hotel.
In April 21st, 2009, under the approval of the municipal Party committee and the government of Changsha, Orange Isle Scenic Spot started to freely open to the tourists.
Four regions were divided in the construction of Orange Isle: Orange Isle Core Scenic Spot, the Beach Park, the Tourism Supportive service Region and the sports area for water activities. Among those, Orange Isle Core Scenic Spot is the most important part.
Yuelu Academy
Yuelu Academy
Brief introduction to Yuelu Academy
Yuelu Academy is situated at Hunan University in Yuelu Region Changsha County, which has a three-kilometer distance to the downtown. The floor space of the academy is more than 31000㎡ and the construction area reaches 11000㎡. What’s more important is that the Yuelu Academy is listed as the national AAAA scenic area, national key Scenic Spot, national civilized tourism demonstration site and important heritage site under state protection. Nowadays, it serves as an ancient heritage museum for demonstrating the ancient academy education and architectural style. Yuelu Academy was built in Kaibao 9th year in North Song (A.D.976) and ranked one the four ancient academies, having gone through several dynasties covering Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, in 1926, Yuelu Academy ultimately renamed Hunan University. Recently, it serves as an academy for fostering masters and doctors. Since it is the best-repaired, fullest-conserved and largest-scaled ancient academy, it is honorably called “A Millennium Academy”. In recent years, it has received more than 650 thousand tourists from all over the world and gradually become a center for collection, display, research and communication of academy culture relics.
Yuelu Academy has been well-known since Song Dynasty, and was under the title: one of the “Four Best Academies in the whole country”. During its thousand years, Yuelu Academy has been much popular for the famous people it has fostered. Between 1916 and 1919, young Mao Zedong lodged at the Banxue Room in Yuelu Academy several times to work on the revolutionary activities in seek of the truth of saving the Chinese people. From then on, large numbers of Yuelu teachers and students set themselves to the revolutionary work in the new democracy and caused a profound and ever-lasting influence to Chinese history.
Additionally, the academy is also famous for the elegance of the environment and beauty of the architecture. The extant architectural complex nearly was built in Ming and Qing Dynasty, of which the main architecture was lecture room, library and Confucious’ Temple in the function of teaching, collecting books and sacrificing.
Xinmin Institute
Xinmin Institute
Xinmin Institute
New People will learn to set up site cum sen's former residence, located in Changsha, Ying Zhou Xinmin Road, table bay, near the West Yuelu Mountain, east of the Xiangjiang River. In 1918, Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen and other progressive youth as "a collection of gay and creating a new environment" and initiated the establishment of Newman Society, in the same year on April 14 inaugural meeting was held in the former residence of the main room.
Xinmin Society aims first to "reform academic, tempering behavior, improved customs and people," determined after "transformation of China and the world" for learning policy. Before and after the May Fourth Movement, the New People Society launched a youth went to France to work-study movement in Hunan, leading the revolution in Hunan students find the truth, all walks of life to carry out a series of joint struggle against imperialism and feudalism. The core members of the New People learn to strong advocacy of Marxism and the Russian October Revolution, the establishment of the Russian Research Institute of Hunan, the founder of the Cultural Book, the formation of the Socialist Youth League in Changsha, and in 1920 founded the Communist Party of China, Changsha early organization. In 1921, Mao Zedong, Communist Party of China, Changsha Shuheng organizations on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party "a great" made for the creation of the Chinese Communist Party ideology, in theory, the preparation of cadres. Xinmin learn the fate of China had an extensive career and impact in the history of Chinese revolution, known as "Party Harbinger." Communist China "one big", the Institute completed its historic mission and automatically shut down.
Xinmin Society a total of 78 members, of whom 31 were in the early Communist Party members. Great proletarian revolutionary Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Shuheng, Xiang Jingyu, LUO Zan, Zhang Kundi, Guo Liang, Chen, Cai Chang and others are outstanding representatives of the Institute.
New People Society, founded in 1983 will be the former site of Hunan Provincial People's Government announced by the provincial cultural relics protection units, 1987 by original rehabilitation. Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun was the former site of the inscription, "the former residence of Cai Hesen," and the "New People will learn to set up site."
The former site of the core protected area is about 5,000 square meters, is a small gray tiles, bent wood, woven bamboo wall structure of the Qing Dynasty houses. Gallery organizing a "Citizen Society Party Harbinger" display and exhibition, the vast number of young people and the revolutionary masses to accept an important place for traditional education, is a cultural landscape and natural scenery melting as one of the patriotism education base and tourist attractions .