Luqin Mountain

　　   Luqin Mountain is located more than twenty kilometers west of Yangxi County. With overlapping peaks stretching for hundreds of li, it is known as the "Hundred-Ridge Mountain." Legend has it that Luo Han, an official from the Jin Dynasty, once brought his guqin here to roam, hence the name Luqin Mountain. It stands at an elevation of 448 meters.

　　   Between the northern and southern ridges of Luqin Mountain, there is a series of massive rocks stacked down one after another. Clear springs flow through crevices in the rocks, cascading and surging, striking the stones and producing sounds like a guqin being played—this is the famous Yangxi scenic spot known as "Elegant Music of Luqin." Below it lies a pool which emits sounds resembling a dragon’s roar when rain is approaching,

　　   thus it is named Dragon Pool. Beside the pool are two stone inscriptions: one reads “Swift as Sound and Form,” bold and powerful, while the other features an engraved outline of a guqin, with subtle lines that provoke thought. Regarding this scenic wonder, Ming Dynasty poet Tang Xianzu wrote: “How can one find the recluse of Luqin Mountain, whose guqin strings ring clearly in the sea breeze at night?” On Luqin Mountain lies the “Green Tomb” of Wang Ruoxia, a renowned female poet of Yangxi from the Qing Dynasty’s Kangxi era, who left behind the “Ruoxia Pavilion Poetry Manuscript.”