Where the hell is Maoshan?

Maoshan is located in jurong city, Jiangsu Province, in the southwest of Jiangsu Province, at the junction of Jurong and Jintan counties. It is about 10 km long from north to south and 5 km wide from east to west, covering an area of more than 50 square kilometers.

Maoshan Mountain is a famous Taoist mountain in China, the birthplace of Taoist Shangqing School, and is called "Shangqing Zongtan" by Taoism. It has the reputation of "the first blessed land and the eighth cave". It is also one of the six anti-Japanese base areas in China. There are many scenic spots on the mountain, including Jiu Feng, Nineteen Springs, Twenty-six Cave and Twenty-eight Ponds. The mountains are stacked, the peaks are stacked, and the clouds are lingering. The climate is pleasant. The mountains are rugged and the caves are deep and circuitous. Lingquan Shengchi is dotted with meanders, and the mountains are full of green trees and bamboos.

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Features of Maoshan Scenic Area

1. With beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery, it is known as Jiu Feng, Eighteen Springs, Twenty-six Cave, Twenty-eight Ponds and other places of interest, and countless grotesque rocks are scattered all over the place, which makes Maoshan form a strange and wonderful natural landscape.

Maoshan is a famous Taoist shrine. Maoshan became the birthplace of Taoist Shangqing School, and was called "the first blessed land, the eighth cave" by later generations, enjoying the reputation of "the fairy house in Qin and Han Dynasties, the house of Liang, Tang and Cheng". Maoshan is also the center of the anti-Japanese base area in southern Jiangsu of the New Fourth Army. Maoshan was listed by Chairman Mao as one of the six major anti-Japanese base areas in China.

Maoshan was the place where young intellectuals went to the countryside to receive revolutionary traditional education in 1960s and 1970s. Six or seven thousand Changzhou educated youths left behind the youth and enthusiasm of a generation of young people and made indelible contributions to the development of Maoshan.

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