Purple Mountain

Purple Mountain or Zijin Shan is located on the eastern side of Nanjing in Jiangsu province, China. It is 448.2 m high, with the lowest point 30 m . Its peaks are often found enveloped in mysterious purple and golden clouds at dawn and dusk, hence its name.A small mountain with an area about 20 square kilometres, Purple Mountain is a mountain related to many historical events of both ancient and modern China. It was originally known as Bell Mountain and also became known as Mount Jiang after Sun Quan named Jiang Ziwen, an Eastern Han official whose spirit was said to haunt the site, as the mountain's god during the Three Kingdoms era. The name Zijin is meaning "copper" - when the copper is pure, it will be purple, so in Chinese it also call purple-gold. With the purple rock on the mountain, it also name Mount Jinling, Jinling is meaning "the mount of purple-gold". It is the origin of the nick name Jinling of Nanking city. At Ming dynasty, it also name Mount Shenlie .