Jiangshan Scenic Area

　　Jiangshan Scenic Area is located in Fengtou Village, Dongping Town, 35 kilometers from the county seat. The scenic area covers an area of 10 square kilometers, and its highest point, Jinfengding, has an elevation of 1,206 meters. Legend has it that when the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang traveled here, he saw the landscape resembling a “white elephant coiling around a lake,” so he built an ancient temple here. Thus, the mountain was called Zhuangshan (Monk Mountain), which later became corrupted to Jiangshan. It is one of the eight famous Buddhist mountains in northern Fujian. The scenic area features overlapping ridges and uniquely beautiful peaks, with flat fields covering hundreds of acres atop the summits. The Ming Dynasty poet Guo Sisui praised it in a poem: “Ridges stacked one after another reach toward the azure sky, and a hundred-acre lake lies hidden on the summit.” Major attractions include Huisheng Temple, Jiangfu Jungle, Cliff Sky Ladder, Longmi Rock, Seven Saints Pool, Monks' Summit, Twin Gates Cave, Jinfengding, and White Ox Rock.

　　Source: Local Chronicles of Zhenghe County