Yuhuatai means a platform with yuhua (yu means rain, hua means flower, tai means platform) pebbles. It is a mound 60 meters high and 2 kilometers wide, lying 1 kilometer away from the Zhonghua (center) Gate. Legends says that there was once an accomplished monk in the Liang Dynasty who expounded the texts of Buddhism here. He explained the scripture so well that the heavenly god was moved and flowers began to rain down.

The flowers rained here later on became this kind of Yuhua pebbles only found on this mound and thus the mound was called Yuhuatai. But from 1927 to 1949, more than 100,000 patriotic personages were killed here by Guomindang. So afterAfter the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was turned into one of the largest cemeteries for Revolutionary Martyrs. At present, museums and memorial halls have been built here for to commemorate these people. There is also an exhibition hall for displaying all many kinds of collected beautiful yuhua pebbles.