Lookout Tower

　　

　　Louguan Tai (the Lookout Tower), known as the First Happy Land, is a famous scenic spot of Taoism in China. It is situated at the piedmont of Zhongnan Mountain in Zhouzhi County, Xi'an City, and is 70 kilometers away from the Xi'an downtown.

　　

　　

The Lookout Tower has Qinling Mountain in its south and the Weihe River in its north. There is a luxuriant bamboo forest in the piedmont of Zhongnan Mountain, which is therefore reputed as the Fascinating Place and Happy Land. The extant historical sites include the Canon-Explanation Platform, the Alchemy Stove, the Lü Gong Cave, the Huanu Spring, the Louguan Tower, the Laozi Tomb, the Zongsheng Palace, the Huiling Taoist Temple, the Yuhua Taoist Temple, the Yansheng Taoist Temple and so on.

　　

　　It was in the Lookout Tower that Laozi, the founder of Taoism, finished his masterpiece Dao De Jing (Classic of the Way and its Power), which has some 5,000 Chinese characters altogether.