The Yu Hill

The Yu Hill
The Y u Hill (also named Nine- Immortal Hill) , only 58.6 metres high and encompassing 11.9 hectares (29.75 acres), is situated in the city proper of Fuzhou. Legend claims that the name Yu Hill attributes to a branch of the "Yuyue" clan people lived here during the Warring States period (475- 221 BC).

The White Pagoda, Bai Ta. 

With the Wu Hill to its southwest and the Screen Hill to its north, the Yu Hill becomes a point of a triangle. Facing the distant peaks in the northwest suburbs, the hill helps to render a scene of "a city among the mountains and the mountains within the city ." The major attractions in the hill include the Dingguang Pagoda, Dingguang Temple from the 904 to 907 of the Tang Dynasty, the Nine-Immortal Temple obhe Song Dynasty, the Memorial Hall of Qi Jiguang (1528-1587), a famous general against Japanese invasion in the Ming Dynasty, and more than 100 rock-face inscriptions from the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties.