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).
