Rain Flower Terrace

The Rain Flower Terrace, or Yuhuatai in Chinese, is located south of the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing. It is a hillock with beautiful scenery, about 100 meters high and more than 3,000 meters long.
The Rain Flower Terrace is also called the Agate Hillock. It produces lots of colorful agate stones, additionally the top of the hillock is like a platform, so local people like to call it "the Rain Flower Terrace".
There are beautiful agate stones like rain flowers on the ground on the Rain Flower Terrace, shining and glittery. On the east hill of the Rain Flower Terrace, there is a spring stream and an exquisite rockery. The name Rain Flower Terrace is related with a beautiful legend. Allegedly, in Nanchao Dynasty the Yunguang Master placed a table to speak scriptures on top of the hill, and this moved the God, so many flowers like rain fell down from the heaven. These flowers became beautiful and colorful little stones and scattered the whole hillock. And this is how the Rain Flower Terrace got its name.
The Rain Flower Terrace is the highest spot of south of Nanjing. Since South and North Dynasty of Wei, there had been the armed forces to conflict here. In late year of Ming Dynasty, after the Peace Heaven chose Nanjing as their capital, they once fought with Qing Dynasty here for several years.
In late of Qing Dynasty, the armed forces of the Revolution of 1911 once used the natural topography of the Rain Flower Terrace to beat the soldiers of Qing Dynasty. When two sides were fighting, they also had casualties, so now on top of the hillock there still preserved two tombs of dead soldiers, providing people to mourn.