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Tianzhong Mountain (天中山) has another name of Tiantai, and the original Tianzhong mountain is a circle little hill, covering an area of about 540 square meters, being 3.6 meters tall. It is located in the place, which is two kilometers far away of the northern Runan County, Zhumadian, Henan province. And the unique geographical position forms the ecological resources of Tianzhong mountain.
According to history:“Yu the Great points for the world into Jiuzhou and since Yuzhou is the center of Jiuzhou and Runan is the center of Yu, Runan is called Tianzhong.” Another said is because of no clock for the ancient times during the day and hour can only calculate through the change of the shadow, Runan old volunteers recording: “since ancient times the shadow is measured, people collect stones to remember time by making a record of the sun's shadow”.