This place is much related to Chinese historical legends.

Li Mountain is believed to be the place where the Goddess Niuwa repaired the sky after she created the human beings.

It is said the last king of Zhou, Zhouyou had a gorgeous concubine, Baosi, who never laughed in the palace. In order to bring her to laughter, the king fooled all his generals of a war by lighting up the fire in the beacon here at the top of Li Mountain. She did laugh as she saw the chaos, but shortly after that the king was captured and lost his throne because his angry generals refused to come to help him, when the real enemies came.

Yang Yuhuan, one of the four most beautiful women in Chinese history, is believed to have often bathed here in Huaqing Palace in the early Tang Dynasty. Her love story with the Emperor Gaozong was one of the most romantic love stories of China, and many poems were written to describe her. Later in order to calm down a rebellion, the emperor was forced to have her executed and then he lived the rest of his life in sorrow and memory of her.

Xi'an Incident took place also here, in which General Zhang Xueliang arrested the Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in order to force him to fight against Japanese invaders together the Chinese Communist Party.