Qiuhu Mountain

Overview

Qiuhu Mountain lies 13 km south-east of Lishui town centre and forms part of the Wuxiang Mountain National Forest Park; its main peak is 279.8 m. Both facts come from the Master Plan for the Wuxiang Mountain National Forest Park, Nanjing (2023–2035) issued by the Jiangsu Provincial Forestry Bureau. No second elevation figure has been found from a water, forestry or natural resources department.

The mountain lies in Yongyang Subdistrict: the municipal list of protected cultural sites records the Qiuhu Mountain quarry, Ming, at Qiuhu Mountain, Yongyang Subdistrict. It belongs to the Shijiu Lake basin. The forest park plan records that Wuxiang Temple, Xiangshan, Qiuhu Mountain and Taohuaba Reservoir within the park belong to the Shijiu Lake system; the Qiuhu written there is this mountain.

Formation and change

The forest park plan records that the park is geologically faulted, with marked differential uplift of blocks cut off by fault belts and widespread volcanic rock; late in the Mesozoic Yanshan movement the north-western limb of the Ligao anticline subsided, producing landforms dominated by low hills. Qiuhu Mountain is one of the park's twenty-odd peaks and shares that setting.

The district government's 2024 plan records that Lishui lies in the Ningzhenyang hill country, that hills make up 72.5 per cent of the area, and that the land falls from south-east to north-west in steps; the same document records that, taking the divide between the Shijiu Lake and Qinhuai systems as the line, the southern Shijiu Lake system falls from the north-east in two directions and meets in the lake area.

Stone was quarried on the mountain in the Ming period, leaving the quarry remains. The level and batch of protection for those remains are recorded by the history site; this entry notes only their relation to the mountain. No first-tier source has been found for the start and end of quarrying, its scale or where the stone went, so nothing is written here.

Landscape and visiting

Qiuhu Mountain is one of the linked massifs in the Wuxiang Mountain National Forest Park that can be climbed; the park's forest cover and mountain scenery are as surveyed in the forest park plan, and the Ming quarry remains are among the park's cultural sights.

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

Open questions

• Two spellings of the name coexist: the forest park plan writes Qiuhu with one first character in one place, and the municipal list of protected cultural sites writes it with another. This site follows the municipal heritage list and uses Qiuhu throughout, in the entry name and in the related entries.
• The 279.8 m main peak has so far been found in the provincial forestry bureau's forest park plan only, with no second source; it is cited with its source.
• Qiuhu Mountain and Wuxiang Mountain are not the same mountain: the forest park plan lists them as separate peaks within the park and this site keeps two entries. The same section of the plan gives Wuxiang Mountain as 209.8 m and also gives a Ping Mountain with a 209.8 m main peak; that problem is set out under Open questions in the Wuxiang Mountain entry.
• The district's highest point, 368.5 m, appears in two district government plans, of 2019 and 2024, and neither names the mountain it belongs to. This site does not guess; the Qiuhu Mountain entry gives only the 279.8 m of the plan.
• The elevation the forest park plan gives for Qiuhu Mountain does not match the geographical position page, which names Donglu Mountain and Huifeng Mountain among the higher ones, without listing Qiuhu Mountain or giving its elevation. Both are shown as they stand, neither correcting the other.