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.
Lushan stands where the Yangtze and Poyang Lake meet, and the rock is granite. Its highest peak, Hanyang, reaches 1,474 metres, and the mountain is famous for waterfalls that drop through cloud. In December 1996 the World Heritage Committee inscribed it as a cultural landscape, calling it one of the cradles of Chinese civilisation, where Buddhist and Daoist temples and the White Deer Grotto Academy sit inside a natural setting of outstanding aesthetic value.
Lushan is granite, not the limestone of other Jiangxi peaks, and it stands exactly where two of China's great waters meet.