to reside in such a small and remote town. In the 13th century Zhu Xi was a Confucian philosopher who practiced at the White Deer Grotto Academy, on Mount Lu's eastern flanks.

Jiujiang has also been known as Jiangzhou and Xunyang in former times. During the Jin dynasty (266-420) it was known as Sin Yang, during the Liang dynasty (502-557) of the Southern and Northern Dynasties era,