Located on Helan Moun­tain (Helan Shan) and lo­cally known as Escargot Mountain (Tianluo Ling), northwest of Ganzhou city, Yugu Terrace was built dur­ing the Guangde and Dali periods of the Tang Dynasty (763-779).The three-story terrace is 56 feet high, with a total area of about 116 square miles. The terrace is magnificent with its carved and painted beams; it also attracted men of letters from different dynasties to leave their dedications here. In 1094, Su Shi, a famous eleventh-century poet and calligrapher, was exiled to Lingnan. When he passed by Ganzhou, he went to Yugu Terrace and wrote the poem "Composed on the Yugu Terrace, Qianzhou."