New Top Ten Scenes of the West Lake-Heavenly Wind over Wushan Mountain
The mountain, located at the southeast of the West Lake, is 94 meters high with elegant scenery, queer rocks, clear springs and beautiful caves. There are Chenghuang Pavilion on the mountain, which is elegant and above the clouds, and towering and magnificent. Beside the mountain path, there a group of rocks with various shapes, which are exactly like the Chinese Zodiac, so they are called as “Chinese Zodiac Rocks”. At the top of Wushan Mountain, there is “River and Lake Huiguan Pavilion” built there. Standing in it, you can have a panoramic view of Qiantang River and the West Lake. There are the relics of Shanmao Temple left at the boulevard leading to the Yunju Mountain beside the Pavilion. Beside the relics is there the manuscript: The First Peak—Wushan Mountain, left by Chu His, a Neo-Confucianist in South Song Dynasty.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the southern boundary of Wu State was made up of more than ten mountain tops, that is Ziyang, Yunju, Jingdi, Qingping, Baolian, Qibao, Shifo, Baoyue, Camel, Emei, etc, which form an arch hill in a southwest to northeast strike. All the small mountain tops are generally called as Wushan Mountain. The Wushan Mountain is not high, but because it inserts into the downtown, it overlooks the street and alleys in its east, north and northwest and look far into the Qiantang River and flat fields at its both banks in the south. Ascending on the Wushan Mountain still can give you sense of soaring and surpassing and is able to hold all the beautiful scenery of rivers, mountains, lakes and cities in Hangzhou in sights.