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Baotu Spring Park
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| Baotu Spring Park is known not only as the first of the 72 springs in Jinan but as the "First Spring under Heaven". Together with its environs, it has been turned into a park of the same name that is now one of the three major places of interest in Jinan. |
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Mount Tai
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| Mount Tai, the first of the "Five Sacred Mountains", is located in the central part of Shangdong Province, within the precincts of Jinan, Licheng and Tai'an, covering an area of 426 squuare kilometers. Mount Tai is one of the five savred mountains of China. Taishan Mountain was once called Mt. Dai or Mt. Daizong before. It was renamed Taishan Mountain during the Spring and Autumn Period. In 1987 UNESCO listed Mount Tai as the World Natural and Cultural Heritage. |
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Da Ming Lake
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| Daming Lake Park is regarded as one of the three must-see tourist spots in Jinan (the other are Baotu Park and Thousand-Buddha Mountain). With a constant water source that derives from the many springs that feed into the lake such as Pear Spring, Zhuoying Spring, Wangfu Chi Spring, to name just a few, Daming Lake is thus aptly called "the conflux of numerous springs". |
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Thousand Buddha
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| Thousand Buddha Mountain stands in the south of the city proper and was called Mount Lishan in the old times. According to legend, Yu Shun (one of the sagacious kings in the late primitive society of China) once tilled at its foot, so it is called Shun Tilling Mountain too. |
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