The 'village' of Moganshan, as it stands today, was first created in 1898 by a group of foreigners looking for an escape from the heat of Shanghai summers. The mountain, of course, has been standing much longer.
Legend has it that a sword smith, GanJiang, came to the mountain at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (722-481 BC) to forge and temper a pair of special swords in a stream that runs from one of the many clear mountain springs.
