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terfalls, like bead curtains, flowing along the rocks besides.<br />
Snow, ice and water together, just so amazing. Actually it is<br />
not the best waterfall at Mt. Lu. The best is Sandie (meaning<br />
three segments) Spring, which lies below Five Old Peaks.<br />
It drops through three craggy tiers with a fall of 155 meters<br />
(about 509 feet). It is said that the upper part is like snow falling<br />
down to the pond; the middle reach wanders and twists<br />
with splashing sprays dancing in the air; while the lower level<br />
resembles a jade dragon running in the pond. There is saying<br />
goes, “Without visiting Sandie Spring, one can not say having<br />
been to Mt. Lu.” I had been so eager to see the Sandie<br />
Spring, but I could not then because this scenery spot was<br />
closed owing to the consideration for the safety of the tourists.<br />
A pity for me.<br />
Walking on the winding road through the erecting<br />
metasequoia woods with white snow covering the ground, it<br />
seemed no ends to the woods, no people and no sounds and<br />
only metasequoia trees accompanying you. That road was<br />
called Returning Dragon Road. It was really a long path.<br />
At the end of the path, climbing on a bridge which is called<br />
Lulin Bridge, we came across another beautiful lake, Lulin<br />
Lake, which was said to be built for Chairman Maozedong<br />
to swim in. Now it is used as drinking water source for the<br />
people on Mt. Lu.<br />
Just touring a small part of Mt. Lu actually, however, it<br />
was, in my eye, an elegant fairyland already.<br />
Too much historical traces<br />
Walking back to the Guling Town, we walked by many<br />
western style villas built by Britain, Russia, America, France<br />
and so on in the early 20th century. The villas area once was<br />
the concessions of the western countries then. During 1930,<br />
it became the summer capital of Nanjing Kuomintang Government.<br />
The former residence of Mrs. Jiangs, Meilu Villa is<br />
kept well on the mountain. In 1937, Chou Enlai on behalf<br />
of CPC negotiated with Jiang Kai-shek and later released<br />
the important speech of anti-Japanese. After the foundation<br />
of People’s Republic of China, Chairman Mao mounted up<br />
to Lushan Mountain and hosted three center-governmental<br />
meetings. Historically,<br />
they were called Lushan<br />
Meeting, famous general<br />
of Communist Party of<br />
China, Peng Dehuai was<br />
deadly condemned here,due<br />
to his maintenance of right<br />
viewpoint. Laterly, he was<br />
dismissed to be the defense<br />
minister. Many villas had<br />
been the residential place of<br />
the top leaders then. Now<br />
all those villas still erected<br />
there, but those historic<br />
people nearly all passed<br />
away. Heavy sense of history<br />
just made my mind calmer.<br />
All the worldly disputes,<br />
no matter how influential it<br />
was once, are finally brought away by the fleeting time, only<br />
leaving some trace and becoming the subject in the future for<br />
the later generations to ponder.<br />
Too much cultural taste<br />
“Sunlight streams on the river stones.<br />
From high above, the river steadily plunges<br />
Three thousand feet of sparkling water —<br />
the milky way pouring down from heaven.”<br />
It was a very famous poem written by Li Bai, the most<br />
famous Poet in Ancient China. The elegance and mystery of<br />
Mt. Lu are just so deeply loved by multiple literators, artists,<br />
monks, Taoists and celebrities in politics and culture. Their<br />
love and behaviors enriched Mt. Lu dramatically in cultural<br />
taste and historical status. Numerous poets and essays activate<br />
it. Mt. Lu is characterized by its poets, calligraphers,<br />
painters, writers, philosophers. Its cultural and historical relics<br />
enrich and raise its spiritual meaning in Chinese people’s<br />
mind and heart. Both as the world heritages, Mt. Tai is created<br />
by emperors, while Mt. Lu is created by scholars.<br />
Time limited, I just visited a small part of Mt. Lu,<br />
missing too much. I had planned to Lushan Cinema to see<br />
that movie and experience that romantic feeling again, but<br />
did not have time finally. It was the most special and particular<br />
cinema, because it plays the same movie Romance<br />
on Mt. Lu everyday without any change in the past. It is<br />
the only movie that plays most and has most audiences. It is<br />
also the only one for non-stop playing all around the world.<br />
In 2002, Guinness organization<br />
of British Headquarters officially<br />
awarded Chinese<br />
movie, Romance on Mt.<br />
Lu to be the film that<br />
has the longest time<br />
for non-stop playing<br />
in the same cinema<br />
in the world. And<br />
another pity was<br />
that snow fell just<br />
t h e<br />
next day after I left. I missed<br />
the most beautiful Mt. Lu<br />
snowing world, fresh, peaceful<br />
and crystal like world full<br />
of spirituality. Life keeps<br />
missing, but I knew I would<br />
come again, if possible, at<br />
least once in each season. If<br />
time and money permitting,<br />
I wished to stay Mt. Lu for at<br />
least a month or longer. Mt.<br />
Lu is just such a mountain<br />
worth deeply tasting and appreciating.<br />
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