Coordinates: 36°5′18.78″N 115°59′9.24″E / 36.0885500°N 115.9859000°E / 36.0885500; 115.9859000 Jingyang Ridge (simplified Chinese: 景陽岗; traditional Chinese: 景陽崗; pinyin: Jǐngyáng Gāng) is a place in Yanggu County (Chinese: 阳谷县; pinyin: Yánggŭ Xiàn), Shandong Province, China, that is referred to in the classic novel Water Margin as the place where one of the novel's heroes, Wu Song, killed a man-eating tiger with his bare hands. Jingyang Ridge is locate a few kilometers northwest of Zhangqiu village (Chinese: 张秋镇; pinyin: Zhāngqiū Zhèn). It is a designated scenic area that protects a hill-top temple and several monuments related to the story of Wu Song. Historical buildings and monuments in the scenic area include:
- "Place of Wu Song hitting the tiger" (Chinese: 武松打虎处; pinyin: Wŭ Sōng Dá Hŭ Chù)
- Wu Song Shrine (Chinese: 武松庙; pinyin: Wŭ Sōng Miào)
- Mountain God Shrine (Chinese: 山神庙; pinyin: Shān Shén Miào)
- Roaring Tiger Pavilion (Chinese: 虎啸亭; pinyin: Hŭ Xiào Tíng).
Famous quotes containing the word ridge:
“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)