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Situated at the middle part of Dangyang and 12 kilometers away from its urban area, Yuquan Mountain Scenic Spot is a comprehensive scenic spot integrating cultural landscape and natural landscape into a whole. Known as “Famous Mountain in Three Chus (Western Chu, Eastern Chu and Southern Chu)", Yuquan Mountain is characterized with religious relics, forest landscape and relics in the Three Kingdoms Period, covering 69 square kilometers. With unique mountains and rivers, rare plants, pleasant climate and profound culture, this scenic spot boasts of myriads of high-quality tourism products such as “Three Treasures of Plants”, “Three Treasures of Cultural Relics” and “Three Mysterious and Strange Things”. There are more than 20 main landscapes, including Fuchuan Mountain, Pearl Spring, Apparition Site of Guangong, Hall of 500 Arhats, Sarira Palace, Iron Pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty, Iron Wok in Sui Dynasty, Bodhisattva pictured by Wudaozi(a famous artist in Tang Dynasty), Lotus with Thousands of Petals, Gingkos in Tang Dynasty, Monthly-flowered Osmanthus in Ming Dynasty and Cactus Tea, etc. As the ashram of wise men and one of the ancestral temples of Tiantai Sect, Yuquan Temple was renowned as one of “the Four Wonders of the Jungle in the World” together with Qixia Temple, Lingyan Temple and Tiantai Temple. It is a key cultural relic site under the state protection and a major religious relic place open to the public. Inside the temple are some cultural relics such as Iron Pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty, Iron Wok in Sui Dynasty and Bodhisattva in Tang Dynasty and rare plants like Monthly-flowered Osmanthus, Lotus with Thousands of Petals, Gingkgo, etc.