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The overnight rain welcomes the morning and stops, / The rising sun fixes its gaze, / The blue sky washed clean, jade light floating. / Curling purple smoke rises ethereally, / Spreading over the mountaintop.
Like mist, yet the mist still flows, / Faint and sparse, / Yuliang faintly reveals sand gulls. / They fly into the clouds and vanish again, / Chirping and twittering.
Yuliang Mountain is to the right of the south tower of Lucheng, adjacent to Ma'an Mountain. Its twin peaks rise high, facing the river and overlooking the lake. The lakeside people have since ancient times caught fish at the foot of the mountain, contentedly self-sufficient. At that time, from Tianluo Duying up to Xinkou Port Toubu Harbor, there were forty-eight large lift-net stake platforms. Wooden docks and branching rivers, with long arrays and large frames, reflections layered upon layers. Row after row of fish weirs, column after column of long-snake formations, rope bridges and bamboo beams, swimming dragons and gliding serpents—truly a unique landscape of this watery realm, and the mountain got its name from this.
On the western peak of the mountain, there was originally the Zhenwu Patriarch Hall, with jeweled towers and jade pavilions amid drifting clouds and mist. Climbing high to view the scenery, all sights are taken in at a glance. At the foot of the eastern peak is Yuliang Pavilion, built by County Magistrate Xu Yi during the Chenghua reign of the Ming Dynasty. With flying eaves and glazed tiles, red pillars and carved railings. 'The Great Dictionary of Chinese Ancient and Modern Place Names' records: 'Yuliang Mountain is one li south of Linxiang County, Hunan (the original county seat of Lucheng). Below the mountain is a lake, whose fish are especially fine. There is also a pavilion called Yuliang Pavilion, with many weeping willows nearby and reeds filling the water's edge. Whenever the sky clears after rain on the mountain, fishing songs echo, shepherd's flutes and village smoke—it is a scenic wonder of the whole county.' On fine days in spring and autumn, with morning sunlight and evening glow, misty waters bewildering, poetry and wine gatherings flourished as never before.
After Liberation, people planted trees and afforested the mountain, greening the area, so that fir shade blocked the sun and all was lush and verdant. When harvested, it also brought in much income. In 1984, a quarry was opened to support the Four Modernizations. For a time, smoke and clear mountain haze flew together, cannon sounds and steam whistles rang together, water roared and wind rustled, fishing songs answered one another, composing a new movement of the times.
