Fushan

Overview

Fushan lies in Baima Town, Lishui District. The district's land spatial plan near-term implementation plan lists Fushan together with Donglu Mountain, Huifeng Mountain, Fangshan, Qiuhu Mountain and Wuxiang Mountain in its section on landforms, describing the mountains as guarding the east and south in a continuous chain, with Xiheng Mountain standing out at the western end. That document was drawn up by the district government and put into force after the provincial government agreed to it, and it is the authoritative document in which Fushan is named.

Neither elevation nor basin is given by any official document. That document and the Master Plan for the Wuxiang Mountain National Forest Park, Nanjing (2023-2035) give only the district totals and the count by grade, namely 237 hills and mountains in all, of which 192 rise above 50 m, 68 above 100 m and 14 above 200 m; they do not give an elevation for each. Nor do the official documents name which side of the divide between the two river systems Fushan lies on. The entry declares elevation_m in gaps and records the basin as undetermined, filling in no guessed value.

Administratively the mountain falls in Baima Town: the district government's administrative divisions page records that Baima Town has a villagers' committee named Fushan, written there in abbreviated form without the word village. The district forestry farm runs four sub-farms, at Donglu, Fangshan, Qiuhu and Pingshan, as recorded under the Fangshan Mountain entry; Fushan is not among them.

An environmental impact report table for Dongping Subdistrict lists Fushan as one of the mountains around the dam area of Fangbian Reservoir, alongside Tangni Mountain, Donglu Mountain and Jing Mountain. That document was commissioned by the Dongping Subdistrict Office and does not say whether its Fushan is the same massif as the one in Baima Town; the two are set side by side under Open questions.

Gazetteer record: volume 1 of the Lishui County Gazetteer (Kangxi edition), in its annals of the county, records under the twelfth year of the Chongzhen era of the Ming dynasty that famine victims took white clay at Fushan, calling it Guanyin powder. This entry records only the mountain and the name of that product; the famine and the tax remissions are covered by the history site and are not set out here.

Formation and change

Fushan lies in the Ningzhenyang hill country. The district's land spatial plan near-term implementation plan records that Lishui falls from south-east to north-west, that low hills cover 72.5 per cent of the district, and that the landform of hills, ridges, slopes and valley floors interlocks in three steps; Fushan stands within the continuous chain that guards the east and south.

As to soil, another edition of the Master Plan for the Wuxiang Mountain National Forest Park, of December 2023, describes the district's mountain soils in more detail and gives purple soil at Fushan, Baima Town. The version cited by this site is the March 2024 edition published on the Jiangsu Provincial Forestry Bureau website, and each edition stands on its own wording. This entry records only that description and its correspondence with Baima Town.

No first-tier source has been found for the age or structural setting of the massif, so nothing is written here.

Landscape and visiting

The local product of the Fushan area is the small-seed peanut. In January 2024 the public notice of the fourth batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage protection projects in Lishui District listed the traditional craft of roasting Fushan small-seed peanuts among the newly listed items, with Baima Town as the applicant place. That document is a public notice, open for comment from 24 January to 6 February 2024, and must be cited as a notice rather than described as a published register.

No first-tier source has been found for walking routes, viewing facilities, tickets or opening times on Fushan, so no visiting detail is given; readers who need it should go to the district culture and tourism department and the township authorities. Opening information is current to September 2026.

Open questions

• Elevation gap: no official document gives Fushan's elevation. The forest park plan and the land spatial plan near-term implementation plan give only the district totals and the count by grade, not an elevation for each; the entry declares elevation_m in gaps and fills in no guessed value.
• Basin undetermined: no official document names Fushan's basin, so the entry records it as undetermined rather than inferring one.
• Two places of the same name: Fushan in Baima Town, on the district government's administrative divisions page and in the other edition of the forest park plan, and the Fushan listed among the mountains around the dam area of Fangbian Reservoir in the Dongping Subdistrict environmental impact report table. Neither document says whether they are the same massif; the entry records Baima Town only and sets the two side by side.
• The soil description comes from another edition of the Master Plan for the Wuxiang Mountain National Forest Park, of December 2023, and not from the March 2024 edition cited by this entry; each edition stands on its own wording.
• The craft of roasting Fushan small-seed peanuts appears in the public notice of January 2024, and the formal register has not been found; it must not be described as already published.
• The record in the Lishui County Gazetteer (Kangxi edition) of famine victims taking white clay at Fushan refers to the famine of 1639, in the twelfth year of the Chongzhen era, and is a historical event covered by the history site; this entry records only the mountain and the name Guanyin powder, and the two sites must not rewrite each other.