Panshan scenic area is located 15 km away in the northwest of Ji county, Tianjin Municipality; because it perches in the east of Beijing, it is known as “the first mountain in the east of Beijing”. The mountain was origianally called “Wuzhong”, “Xuwu”, “Sizheng” and “Panlong”. It is said that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a personage from Wuzhong named Tian chou declined the reward from the emperor Xiandi, lived a life of recluse there, thus it got the name Tian Panshan, also referred to as Panshan.