Mount Jiuhua and the Ksitigarbha tradition
A poet's image of nine lotus peaks and a monk's later legend gave this granite mountain two enduring cultural lives.
Chizhou.
A river city whose cultural landscape reaches from mountain monasteries and protected forests to a village remembered through poetry.
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Mount Jiuhua's monasteries: a network in the landscape
Named monasteries, a large Buddhist collection and a dated record of monastic life show how religious institutions are woven through the mountain.
Guniujiang: the work behind a protected forest
Ranger patrols, camera traps and a measured forest plot show conservation as repeated fieldwork rather than a scenic label.
Xinghua Village: a place kept alive by a poem
Chizhou's tourism bureau links the village to Du Mu's Qingming poem, while pupils still recite it at the site's Huai Du Pavilion.
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The 99-metre Ksitigarbha statue rises above the stairway at Jiuhuashan’s Great Vow Culture Park, a modern devotional monument associated with the mountain’s living tradition.Beccabubu · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by Beccabubu; Commons file page records CC BY SA 4.0. The saved file is the platform’s standard thumbnail (960×1282), not the upstream original (1278×1706); no enlargement, crop or retouching.