Nanjing, with its profound history, has long been hailed as the Capital of Six Dynasties, and beyond that Nanjing is also known for its abundance of flowers blooming throughout the year. Whenever you come to Nanjing, there are always one or several kinds of flowers that could draw your attention and feast your eyes.
By far the most significant point of interest in Luhe district is the Stone Pillar Forest on Guizi Hill. The forest is a type of geological formation that has only been found at four sites an earth, of which this is the biggest. Massive gray pentagonal and hexagonal stone columns line the inside of the hill’s shell, of which some four-fifths survives; the area inside the hill covers nearly a fifth of a square kilometer, and the hill itself is about fifty meters tall.
Nanjing Yeshan National Mine Park is located in the north of Luhe District, next to Jinniu Lake scenic area. The iron ore smelting of Yeshan has a long history. As early as 3000 years ago, Yeshan Mountain was a place of mining and smelting. The history of iron-smelting was more than 1800 years earlier than that in Europe. It is a microcosm of China's mining history. The underground mining intuitively and iconically indicate the history of China's mining technology from the Western Zhou Dynasty to now.
This park is located on the site of the former palace of Zhu Yuanzhang, first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Built from 1366-84 it was apparently a very impressive palace. There were the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the state altar and all facilities of the imperial palace. When Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, he built Beijing Imperial Palace in imitation of Ming Palace in Nanjing. Ming Palace was destroyed in the war at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Now what remain are only some carved stones, building foundation, column base, etc.
Fangshan Mountain is located in the middle of Jiangning District, which is an extinct volcano with typical basalt volcanic landforms. On Fangshan Mountain, there is a legend about Emperor Qinshihuang, who lived two thousand years ago. Fangshan Mountain is also famous for religion, with Xuanguan Hole (Taoism) built over 1800 years ago and Dinglin Temple built more than 1200 years ago on it. The maximum inclination of Dinglin Temple leaning tower is 5.3, which is called the first leaning tower in the world.
Located at southwest of Zutanq Mountain, they inherited Tang style in construction. There are astronomical phenomenon paintings and geographical diagram of rivers in the back room. Their colorful murals are of high value.