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About Dahong Mountain
Dahong Mountain (大洪山) is a mountain range on the shared border of Jingmen (荆门), Xiangyang (襄阳), Xiaogan (孝感) and Suizhou (随州) in Hubei, where Suizhou meets Jingshan (京山) and Zhongxiang (钟祥); Sui County (随县) lies on its northeastern side.
The range is also called Lulin Mountain (绿林山), after the Lulin Army (绿林军), which originated in these hills at the end of the Western Han. Sui County's government names Baozhu Peak (宝珠峰) on Dahong Mountain, at 1,055 m, as the highest point in the southwest of the county, and local tourism promotes the mountain as "the first peak in the sky of northern Chu" (楚北天空第一峰).
Forest covers more than 90 percent of the Dahong Mountain area. Its landscape includes karst caves, four large upland pools known as "heavenly pools", highland lakes, extensive tea gardens and very old ginkgo trees scattered through the villages.
Youji Chan Temple (幽济禅寺), a Buddhist temple on the mountain, was moved away in the Southern Song. In the Duanping era (1234-1236) the regional commander Meng Gong (孟珙), guarding against Jin invasion, petitioned Emperor Lizong, and an imperial edict moved the temple to Wuchang (武昌), where the hill Dongshan was renamed Hongshan (洪山); the temple there is now Baotong Temple (宝通寺) in Wuhan.
On the Sui County side, Dahongshan Reservoir (大洪山水库), also called Pipazui Reservoir (琵琶咀水库), was built in Hongshan town (洪山镇) between 1965 and 1967. The Pipa Lake scenic area (琵琶湖景区) in the same town has about 10,400 mu of water. Its boat tours pass cliffs of clastic sedimentary rock that resemble a Danxia landform, and rocks the county presents as relics of volcanic eruptions in the late Cambrian, about 500 million years ago.
What to look for
- Baozhu Peak (宝珠峰), 1,055 m, the highest point in southwestern Sui County
- Three of the four "heavenly pools": the Yellow Dragon (黄龙池), Black Dragon (黑龙池) and White Dragon (白龙池) pools
- Karst caves in the mountain
- Pipa Lake (琵琶湖) by boat, with Red Rock Waterfall (红岩瀑布) and the volcanic-rock formations
- Rentou River (人头河), lined with sheer cliffs, where a round boulder set in the rock face looks like a human head
- Old ginkgo trees and tea gardens in the villages around the range
Location & getting there
Getting to Dahong Mountain
- Search for 大洪山 with 随州市 and 随县.
Find Dahong Mountain
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Sources & visit information
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-23. Opening hours, admission and access arrangements are not covered; confirm current visitor information with the site.
- 大洪山 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 ↗
- 地理环境 - 随县人民政府门户网站 ↗
- 大洪山琵琶湖景区-随县人民政府门户网站 ↗
- 一山连四市，环线通六地！环大洪山六大主题旅游线路重磅来袭-随县人民政府门户网站 ↗
- 宝通寺 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 ↗
Some facts checked against Wikipedia contributors, "大洪山" · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Some facts checked against Wikipedia contributors, "宝通寺" · CC BY-SA 4.0.