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Touring Mt. Lu: Feeling
Elegance and Poetic Beauty
By Yan Manman
Having for long heard the movie Romance on
Mt. Lu, which is claimed to be and famous for
the PRC’s first movie with kiss scene. Though
the movie-making technology was very lagging
behind and the scene was not as delicate as now, when I
saw the movie which was published in 1980, 30 years ago, I
was moved by the pure and deep love between the hero and
heroine, that kind of reticent way of expressing love, which
was the very characteristic of Chinese people in the eyes of
western world; I was touched by the beauty of Mt. Lu, that
poetic beauty no matter in spring or autumn, summer or
winter; I was awaken of the beautiful image in my mind by
those famous poems written in Mt. Lu; and I was reminded
of the heavy history in modern China history…Located
in the northern part of Jiangxi province, Mt. Lushan faces
Yangtze River to the north and borders Poyang Lake (the
largest fresh water lake in China) on the east. Overlooking
southward on top of the mountain, the Poyang Lake is like
a silver mirror. In the north, the Yangtze River looks like a
jade ribbon flying to the Mt. Lu views of the plains and the
Yangtze are breathtaking. I was just so fascinated by Mt. Lu
then, and told myself, “I wanna visit Mt. Lu someday.”
Mt. Lu is famous for a splendid and pretty summer
resort, and summer is the best time for visiting Mt. Lu.
But its snowy scenery is also a miracle. I wished to see Mt.
Lu covered by the crystal ice and white snow. Then just a
few days after I saw the movie, I came to Mt. Lu with an
impulse at a weekend in the winter. Arriving at Jiujiang at
6:30, I took a bus at the coach station, which directly carried
me to the Guling, a town on the top of Mt. Lu. Since it was
in the morning, on the bus which ran on the winding road
among the hills, I saw the sun rise and shine the mountains,
and overlooked the Poyang Lake. I was just so excited that
we had arrived at the Guling Town before I had enough of
viewing the scene on the bus.
Oh, an elegant fairyland
It was cold even it was in the south of Yangtze River.
Owing to the chillness, only a few tourists came. Some snow
was still there on the ground. It was silent and quiet. My
friend and I just meandered ahead along the street, and not
far we saw the scenic spot Flower Path. That was the place
where Bai Juyi, a famous poet of Tang Dynasty in his poem
referred as “the fragrance in the human world has withered
in Aprils, while flowers in the mountain are in full bloom”.
All kinds of rare flowers are said to be found here. But it was
winter, no flower. But for me, I still could sense that kind of
poetic beauty.
Not far away we walked was a lake with pagoda in the
center and mountains with snow afar. Just like its name, Violin-like
Lake, it was graceful like beautiful light music beside
your ears.
In the Yellow Dragon Pool and Dark Dragon Pool,
snow covering the rocks and ice hanging there, the small wa-
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