Surrounded by hills on three sides and the city wall on one side, it was a pleasure ground of the emperors and a training center for imperial navies during the Six Dynasties Period (420-589), but was turned into a park in the late Qing Dynasty.
Nanjing is a famous historical and cultural city. Nanjing is dominated by low hilly areas. There are dozens of hills of different sizes in Nanjing, forming a land pattern like a coiling dragon and a crouching tiger.