Kuling

Guling is the center of Lushan scenic spot. It is a beautiful and prosperous "mountain city in clouds" with an altitude of 1167 meters, including the East Valley and the west valley around Guling.

Guling, formerly known as guniuling, is named for its shape like a bull. Guling town is a beautiful town with flat terrain and verdant peaks. Green pine and red maple block out the sun. Nearly a thousand villas of different styles are built in accordance with the trend of the mountains, dotted in the green cluster, and very harmonious with the surrounding environment. They are rare alpine buildings in China.

Kuling

Guling, located in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, is the center of Lushan scenic spot. It is a beautiful and prosperous "mountain city in clouds" with an altitude of 1167 meters, including the East Valley and the west valley around Guling. With an area of 46.6 square kilometers and a permanent population of 13000, Guling town is the seat of Lushan Scenic Area Administration.

geographical environment

Guling street, located in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, is the center of Lushan scenic area. It is a beautiful, unique and park like small mountain city.

Guling street is surrounded by mountains on three sides. On one side of the canyon, there is Dayue mountain in the East and Dalin mountain in the West. Guniuling in the South and jianzixia gap in the north. Standing in the street park. Overlooking the ancient city of Jiujiang and the jade belt of the Yangtze River, it is an ideal place for leisure, recreation and entertainment. It is also the first place for tourists to Lushan Mountain. Visitors can arrange accommodation, choose tour routes, choose tour guide groups and other activities here, which not only prepares for the upcoming tour, but also solves the worries of food and accommodation.

There are many shops in Guling street, such as post office, bank, cinema, city hall, Lushan building, Yunzhong Hotel, Lulin Hotel, etc. there are more than 30 hotels, guest houses, rest houses, and more than 1400 western style villas. There are more than 13000 beds for tourists, including 380 high-grade beds. In 1983 alone, Guling Street received 2 tourists from home and abroad 200000 person times.

Administrative planning

Guling district after strict planning, clean streets on both sides, streams murmur, trees shade, block out the sun. Thousands of European and American villas, churches, hotels and restaurants are scattered among the green leaves. It is very harmonious with the surrounding environment. It is known as Oriental Switzerland.

On the arc-shaped half side street, Guling Main Street, there are various shops, restaurants and dance halls. At night, the lights are bright and neon, and visitors are like crucian carp crossing the river. It's like a prosperous city at the foot of the mountain. The park in the middle of the street, just near the gap of scissors gorge, is a perfect place to watch the sunrise in the morning, overlook the Yangtze River or the sea of clouds in the daytime, and enjoy the lights of Guling and Jiujiang at night.

Traffic information

External traffic

Self driving

1. Starting from Jiujiang: around Lushan avenue to Lushan east gate

2. From the direction of Nanchang: along the Beijing Kowloon Expressway, get off the Xingzi Expressway and pass the highway around Lushan Mountain;

Internal transportation

transit

Jiujiang Sanli Street (opposite the armed police detachment) or Shili building (half an hour, every 15 minutes, 6:00 a.m. - 18:00 p.m.)

development

Guling and Lulin were forbidden mountains in Ming Dynasty. In 1411, Emperor Yongle granted Tianchi temple the imperial edict. This generation was in the forbidden area, and it was strictly forbidden to collect firewood and graze. Therefore, the original forest coverage is high.

In 1886, British Methodist missionary Li Deli (1864-1939) went to Lushan Mountain. Seeing the cool climate here, he planned to rent a villa in changchong (Donggu) of guniuling to attract foreigners to spend the summer in the mountain. In 1895, Li Deli got a lease from the Chinese government and began to gradually develop it into a summer resort. According to the transliteration of "cooling", guniuling is referred to as "Guling". This summer resort is managed by the board of directors and Guling company house similar to the concession Industry Bureau according to the Guling treaty law. They sold land, collected taxes, and sent police to carry out municipal construction. In line with the terrain and water system planning, we have built crisscross roads, set up street lamps, planted tens of thousands of trees along the river beach, and stipulated that only one villa can be built on each 3.7 mu of land, so as to ensure that the building density is controlled below 15%. It forms a beautiful living environment with murmuring streams and shady trees, which is a garden city style. In 1904, the land lease contract was signed. Since then, missionaries, businessmen and people from all walks of life from more than 20 countries have been competing to build summer villas in Guling. By 1928, the total number of villas reached 712. There are 518 buildings belonging to foreigners and 194 buildings belonging to Chinese. It's like the Museum of architecture. Every summer, more than 2000 foreigners come to the mountains from the provinces along the Yangtze River Valley for summer vacation, including more than 1000 missionaries from Britain and the United States alone, and about 1000 permanent residents. Among the major summer resorts developed by Western missionaries in the same period, Guling in Jiangxi Province was the largest. Secondly, Beidaihe in Hebei Province, Moganshan in Zhejiang Province and Jigongshan in Henan Province. The smaller ones are Guling, Fujian Province.

On December 30, 1935, China and Britain reached an agreement on the settlement of Kuling summer resort. On the new year's day of 1936, the Chinese government officially took over the summer resort.

In Hu Shi's words, "Guling represents the general trend of western culture invading China."

missionary

When the Christian forces headed by Li Deli began to run Guling, the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox forces came one after another.

From 1895 to 1920, the Christian forces headed by Li Deli were rampant. There were 13 churches and 16 sects in Lushan. Every summer, hundreds of Christian missionaries gather in Lushan. These churches organize or hold seminars, or run training courses, or discuss church affairs, or transmit religious faith, or create schools, hospitals and charities to extend religious tentacles to every corner of Lushan Mountain

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Lu Lin

The Lulin summer resort, not far from the south of Donggu, was opened by the Russian Orthodox Church. It was leased to Hankou Russian concession in 1919. In 1924, it was taken over by Hubei provincial government together with Hankou Russian concession. In 1929, it was transferred to Lushan Administration Bureau of Jiangxi Province. In 1955, a beautiful reservoir (Lulin Lake) was formed. Lulin No.1 is a Mao Zedong villa built in 1961. Now it's the Lushan Museum.

Address: the center of Lushan scenic spot in Jiangxi Province

Longitude: 115.98216390611

Latitude: 29.568502484869

Tour time: 1 day

Traffic information: Guling belongs to Lushan scenic area. There are the following ways to get to Lushan scenic area

Self driving: 1. Starting from Jiujiang: around Lushan avenue to the east gate of Lushan; 2. Starting from Nanchang: along the Beijing Kowloon Expressway, you can get off the Xingzi Expressway via the road around Lushan;

Bus: Jiujiang Sanli Street (opposite the armed police detachment) or Shili building (half an hour, every 15 minutes, 6:00 a.m. - 18:00 p.m.)

Ticket information: included in the pass of Lushan scenic area

Opening hours: all day

Chinese PinYin : Gu Ling