Jiujiang sits at the meeting of the Yangtze and Poyang Lake - the country's largest freshwater lake - and is the main gateway to
庐山 (Mt. Lu), a UNESCO cultural landscape celebrated by poets from
李白 (
《望庐山瀑布》) to
苏轼 (
《题西林壁》, source of the idiom
不识庐山真面目).
