Jiāo Shān is a district of the city of Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Jiangsu province in the eastern People's Republic of China . Sitting on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Changzhou to the east, and Yangzhou across the river to the north.Once...

 in southwestern Jiangsu Province, China and a National AAAA designated tourism area. 71 meters above sea level, the area lies next to the Yangtze River

Yangtze River

The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...

 and takes it name from Jiao Guang (焦光) who lived in the area during the final years of the Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

 (206 BCE-220 CE). Jiaoshan is home to the Dinghui Temple (定慧寺), called the Shanguo Temple (焦山山裹寺) in ancient times as well as a a large collection of four hundred or more ancient stone tablets known as the Baomo Xuan (宝墨轩) or Jiaoshan Beilin (焦山碑林), a collection that ranks first in Southern Jiangsu. One of these, the Yihe Ming (瘗鹤铭) was inscribed by the Han Dynasty "Sage of Calligraphy

Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...

" Wang Xizhi

Wang Xizhi

Wang Xizhi was a Chinese calligrapher, traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy , who lived during the Jin Dynasty...

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