Mei Ling

Located in west Nanchang, By southwest shore of Poyang lake, Mei ling is famous for its beautiful nature scenery. Magnificent hills stack among big mountains , incredible cliff,peaks and ever-green trees are everywhere, the climate here is pleasant too. Four words to describe the scenery features :"Green, Quiet, Magnificent, Unique", It is also known as "little Lushan". MeiLing is also an ideal place for religion, There are about 136 temples of Buddhism and Taoism The mountain was originally known as Feihong mountain。It had strolled steps way early in the early han dynasty, in late Western han dynasty, a man named Wei Meifu ,who was once the governor of Nanchang county, du to he was not satisfy the Wang Mang ‘s dictatorship , He resigned and moved to live in Feihong mountain. Later, in order to honor his exemplary conduct and nobility of character ,people built a Meixian altar on the ridge and a Meixian abbey under the ridge, and changed the name Feihong Mountain as Meiling Mountain. Since the tang dynasty, there are many famous people paid a visit here including five prime minister: Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Shangying, Zhou Bida, Wang Anshi, Zhang Wei, Literaties Ouyang xiu, Zeng gong, Huang Tingjian, Chen Shidao, Tang Xianzu etc and general Yue fei etc. They had left many stone inscriptions , poems ,carvings and so on, This makes Meiling become a desirable place for visitors.
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