Baiyun Mountain is a park with natural hills and waters, and an ideal sightseeing place and summer resort, with a development history of over 1,000 years. So far six sightseeing zones have been developed: Mingzhu Tower, Moxing Ridge, Santai Ridge, Mingchun Valley and Luhu Lake.

In fact, Baiyun Mountain is the ending range of Dayu Mountains in the south. It stands up over the flat area of the Pearl River Delta, called 'the First Mountain of Southern Yue' in history. The mountain was named Baiyun (White Cloud) Mountain because of ' White cloud flying over Baiyuan Mountain, and gathering around its base'. 'Wind Soughing in the Pines on Baiyun Mountain' is one of the former 'Eight Sights of Guangzhou', the name coming from the sounds when wind blowing the pines on the mountain.

Baiyun Mountain was already a famous scenic spot in Guangzhou in history. One can view the whole city proper from the height of the mountain. Renowned poets and scholars of past dynasties, such as Sushi, Yang Wanli, Wang Shizhen and others once came here and left poems and words after the visit.

Baiyun Mountain is a bit rectangular, measuring 7 km from south to north, and 4 km from east to west, aged around 400 million years, one of the oldest mountains in Guangdong. It has gorgeous scenery and abundant historical relics. Among the past and present Eight Sights of Guangzhou, besides 'Wind Soughing in the Pines on Baiyun Mountain', there are 'Pujian Spring', 'Looking afar in the evening from Baiyun Mountain', 'The Returned Monk at Jingtai', 'the Splendid Mountain of Cloud', etc., which depict all the beautiful scenery of Baiyun Mountain.