Mt. Geshan


Mt. Geshan, also known as Wulong Mountain, is 22.5 kilometers away from southwest of the county town. It has an altitude of 1,235 meters, with the east and west peaks being connected, resembling a Yuanbao (a shoe-shaped gold or silver ingot used as money in ancient China). In "Yonghe County Annals" in the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (1710), it was documented as: "Wulong Mountain appeared here in the year of 564, the third year of Heqing in Beiqi Dynasty (the Northern Qi Dynasty). It is strategically located and difficult of access, together with the Yellow River forming the interior and exterior barrier. Often, the soldiers stationed there to defend.”

 In 1936, when the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army during expedition east returned to the Northern Shaanxi, the third regiment of the First Division blocked the chasing enemy here. In the present, there stands a monument to the "Mt. Geshan Blocking Battle".