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The Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area is located in the Yuelu District 岳麓区 in the southwest of Hunan's capital Changsha 长沙. According to the official homepage, the whole site represents a huge plant museum, which entails many ancient trees and plants from different dynasties. Next to the botanic exhibitions, the Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area further gives a variety of traditional buildings. The park reflects not only late-imperial architecture like the Love Evening Pavilion 爱晚亭 or the Yanyue Palace 云麓宫, but also reveals antique monuments by showing the more than 1700 years old Lushan Temple 麓山寺 (Official Homepage of the Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area). Furthermore, the Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area offers four sites from modern Chinese history. The Five Wheel Tower 五轮塔, built in the style of a Buddhist pagoda was erected in 1927 and represents a memorial for war victims. After the monument was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution 文化大革命 (1966-1976), it was rebuilt in 2002. The official homepage provides no detailed information about the destruction, neither the date of ruination, nor the faction who did destroy the Five Wheel Tower. This lack of concrete information regarding the Cultural Revolution results from the official historical narrative of the Chinese government, which disregards the years 1966 to 1976 in order to avoid tensions and conflicts. Nevertheless, this information still exists but it is concealed on public institutions. There also can be found a bronze statue of the former PLA- Grand Admiral Xiao Jinguang 肖劲光 (1903-1989). Xiao participated at the “Long March” (1934/1935) and was appointed to Vice Minister of Defence in 1954. Picture 1: The bronze statue of Xiao Jinguang, located in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha, Hunan, China.Moreover, the park contains the tomb of the RepublicanGeneral Cai E 蔡锷 (1882-1916). He is regarded as one of the most important revolutionistsduring the Xinhai-Revolution 辛亥革命 (1911/12) and as an opposer of the warlord andself-appointed Emperor Yuan Shikai 袁世凯 (1859-1916). Picture 2: The Tomb of Cai E, located in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha, Hunan, China.Furthermore, the tomb of GMD- charter member Huang Xing 黄兴 (1874-1916) can be found in the Yuelu Mountain Scenic Park. Huang also was an opposer of Yuan Shikai since he was the revolutionary commander of Nanjing in order to overthrow Yuan´s government in 1914 (Beck 2007). According to the exhibiting sites of the park, it can be seen that the Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area seemingly deals with both Republican and People´s Republican memorabilia. This is in contrast to other memorial sites around Changsha, which are mainly concentrating on Maoist or post-Maoist history, such as Autumn Harvest Uprising Memorial. Bibliography: Beck, Sanderson (2007): “Republican China inTurmoil 1912-1926”. In: East Asia 1800-1949, Volume 21.Denton, Kirk A. (2014): Exhibiting the Past– Historical memory and the Politics of Museum in Postsocialist China.Honolulu: University of Hawai’i PressOfficial Website of the Yuelu Scientific Area: lsjq.hnyls.com/List of pictures: Featured Image/ Picture 1: The bronze statue ofXiao Jinguang, located in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha,Hunan,China.(source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Jinguang#/media/File:The_bronze_statue_of_Xiao_Jinguang.jpg, author: Huangdan2060 - Own work) Picture 2: The Tomb of Cai E, located in YueluMountain, Changsha, Hunan, China.(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_E#/media/File:Cai_e's_tomb.JPG,author: Myself – Own Work)