Yuelu Mountain Scenic Zone connects Hengshan Mountain in south and faces Dongting Lake in north. Its west is a wide field and the east is Xiangjiang River. Yuelu Mountain's altitude is 300.8 meters. The peaks extend for over ten kilometers, constituting a natural barrier across the west of Changsha city. Its main peak Yunlu is with beautiful and powerful rocks. The corridors and pavilions are built against the mountain. Looking afar, the Xiangjiang River is like a ribbon, Juzizhou(an islet in Xiangjiang River) is like in the middle of the river with lush trees, two bridges connect the east and west, and the old city and new corridors are covered in purple air and green smoke.
Yuelu Mountain, gathering together the finest parts of Xiangchu Culture, has many places of historic interest and scenic beauty. It integrates Confucian School (a School created by Confucius), Shi (a religion created by Siddhartha in India) and Taoism (a religion created by Zhang Daoling in China). There are lots of sacred places of revolution and abundant plants. Baihe Spring, King Yu Monument, Flying Rock, Coming-back Bell and Chuanshi Slope etc are distributed among the forests and mountains; the plants in the mountain include 174 families, 559 genera and 977 species. Podocarpus macrophyllus of Jin Dynasty, gingko from the Tang Dynasty, Camphorwood of Song Dynasty, maple and chestnut trees of Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty are ancient trees at the age of over thousand years. They are strongly towering under the sky with old trunks and branches. The maple trees, catalpa trees, pines and chestnut trees are lush with powerful branches and trunks; water of spring keeps flowing all the year around and brings you with a peaceful feeling. Every turn of autumn and winter, the maples color the mountain red and red oranges are produced on the branches, which make Yuelu Mountain more beautiful.
