Jiujiang.

Jiujiang stands on the south bank of the Yangtze at the mouth of Poyang Lake, where the province meets Hubei, Hunan and Anhui. The river, the lake and the mountain are all visible from the same city: Poyang Lake opens east of it and Lushan rises in the middle. The story of Jiujiang is a story about what sits between two waters.

Siberian cranes at Poyang Lake — A family of Siberian cranes in winter at Poyang Lake, on the northern edge of Jiangxi.

Jiujiang

Between the river and the lake

Lushan is granite, not the limestone of other Jiangxi peaks, and it stands exactly where two of China's great waters meet.

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The front of Lishengdian Hall at Bailudong Academy, framed by trees.

Reading under the pines at Bailudong

Before it was a monument, the academy was a reading room in a mountain, and its rules were written by a man who had been exiled there.

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Places

Mount Lushan

A granite block mountain above Poyang Lake, inscribed as a World Heritage cultural landscape in 1996.

Bailudong Academy

One of the four great academies of China, rebuilt in the mountains by Zhu Xi in the Song dynasty.

Photo credits and rights

A family of Siberian cranes in winter at Poyang Lake, on the northern edge of Jiangxi.A Dim Light Chaser / CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
Red-roofed villas and other buildings on a green hillside at Lushan, Jiujiang.me (w:User:pfctdayelise) / CC BY-SA 2.5 · CC BY-SA 2.5 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
Lishengdian Hall stands among the trees at Bailudong Academy in Lushan.ScareCriterion12 — 白鹿洞书院礼圣殿2019.jpg / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Converted proportionally to WebP for display and thumbnail; no cropping, retouching or upscaling. The image retains the source license.