Located on the western part of Chongqing, the Gele Mountains are full of lush forests. 

Generally, the place is quite still. However, by the time of raining or blowing, the whole area will echo with resounding voice. In this way, the people in the ancient times gave it the name of 'Gele Mountain (the mountains of joyful singing). 

Located in a canyon at the southern foot of the Gele Mountains, Lin Yuan (Lins' Garden) is the mansion of Lin Sen, Chairman of the Koumintang government, and where he was buried after his death. So, the place was thus called. In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek built a mansion in this place and it was used as one of his own private villas. Therefore, the place has become more fasinating than before. 

At the northern foot of the Gele Mountains there stand two well-known prisons: Bai Gongguan and Zhazidong. It was precisely in these two places the KMT jailed and killed more than 300 Communist revolutionaries before moving to Taiwan in 1949.