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... ountains called East Mountain, one in Guiyang, one in Shandong, and there’s one outside Jiankang as well.

During the Eastern Jin period, a young man named Xie An who was unsuccessful in his political career, retired to the East Mountain in Huiji and stayed there until he was forty-one years old before he returned to Jiankang (then known as Jianye) to take an official position. He resided on a mountain outside the city and named it East Mountain.

About eighty years earlier, under ...

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