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Mount Lu(Chinese: 鲁山; pinyin: Lǔ shān), the fourth high mountain of Shandong Province, is located in the middle area of Shandong Province. Mount Lu spans between Boshan District and Yiyuan County in Zibo City. The main peak of Mount Lu is 1,108.3 meters high. Mount Lu area is about 2,090 square kilometers and it is one of the main middle altitude mountain areas in Shandong Province.

Mountain system
Mount Lu, spans Laiwu, Boshan, Yiyuan and Linqu County in Shandong Province and becomes the boundary of the four places. The trend of Mount Lu is from west to east. Mount Lu stretches out many branches in the north, forming various mountain systems in several townships.

The peaks of Mount Lu are:


 * Shagou Shan(Chinese: 沙沟山; pinyin: shāgou shān) to the north


 * Black Tiger Top（Chinese:黑虎顶;pinyin: hēihǔ dǐng）to the north.
 * Songxian Ling（Chinese:松仙岭; pinyin: sōngxiān líng）to the west.


 * Sanfu Shan（Chinese:三府山; pinyin: sānfú shān）to the west.


 * Longevity Hill（Chinese:万寿山; pinyin: wànshòu shān）to the northwest.

Geological features
Mount Lu is composed of Archean migmatite and migmatite. The main peak is surrounded by steep slopes. The relative depth of the south slope is over 200 meters. The topography of the peak near 1000 meters above sea level is gentle, and it forms a dustpan-shaped wide valley open to the northeast. The formation process of Mount Lu is similar to that of Mount Tai, but the uplift of Mount Lu is smaller than that of Mount Tai since Quaternary glaciation, which causes the altitude of Mount Tai is higher than Mount Lu.

Mount Lu is the center of the watershed of middle area of Shandong and the divergence center of the provincial water system.

Mount Lu is the most typical mountainous area in Shandong Province, which is composed of three-level topographic surface.

History and culture
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Qi（Chinese:齐; pinyin: qí）and the State of Lu(Chines:鲁；pinyin：lú) took this mountain as the boundary. The south side of the mountain was Lu, so the mountain was called Mount Lu.

Commentary on the Water Classic written by Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty described the water source of middle area of Shandong comes from Mount Lu. This is the earliest introduction of Mount Lu River System.

Miscellaneous Records of Yanshan (Chinese: 颜山杂记; pinyin: yánshān zájì) described that Mount Lu is situated in the place where Confucius climbed Mount Dong and overlooked the whole area of Lu. Mencius has the phrase "Climbing Mount Dong and overlooked the whole country of Lu, while Confucius climbing Mount Tai and overlooked the whole China". The ancient name of "Mount Lu" was "Mount Dong". Because Confucius had climbed to the top and the mountain is located in the eastern part of Shandong province, the mountain is called "Mount Dong". Later, because the mountain was situated at the border of Qi and Lu, it was also called "Mount Lu".

Mount Lu was once a royal horse farm in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties of China.

Ecological protection
Mount Lu Forest Farm is located in the southeastern part of Mount Lu, with a total area of 61,779 亩|mu. Before the construction of the forest farm,the forest coverage rate of Mount Lu is very low. After the establishment of the farm, the state allocated a lot of money for afforestation every year. Now, Mount Lu Forest Farm has built a large number of forests and developed a variety of management.

The total area of forestry land is 159,168 mu. 78.5% of the total area of forestry land is collectively owned，including woodland, sparse forest land, unforested afforestation land and woodless land. Tree species includes platycladus, pine, acacia, oak, apple tree, peach tree and pear tree. The total forest coverage rate of Mount Lu area is 29.3%.

In 2017, because Mount Lu area appeared mining industry, Shandong environmental protection supervision group asked Mount Lu to suspend business and restored ecological environment.

Scenic spot rating
Mount Lu landscape is a National Class 4A Tourist Scenic Spot.

In 2012, Mount Lu got the qualification of the National Geological Park.