In 1885, Edward Selly Little, an English missionary and opportunist businessman, went to Mount Lushan and began to plan the development of a large area of land on the mountain, which he named Kuling, implying “cooling.” From then on, Mount Lushan, a famous old cultural mountain where Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism had flourished, saw more and more Western-style villas being built there. American writer Pearl Buck’s father Absalom Sydenstricker was one of the earliest missionaries who spent summer holidays at Mount Lushan. Growing up in China, Pearl Buck had unforgettable memories of her days at Mount Lushan.