The Lingfeng or Lingfeng Hill (灵峰山), is a hill located in Hangzhou City

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

, Zhejiang Province, People's republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

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It's partially located both in the Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University

Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University

Yuquan Campus , is a campus of Zhejiang University. It's the location of former headquarters of the university. Today it also owns some administrational departments of the university...

, and the Botanical Garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

, and is very close to the famous West Lake

West Lake

Xī Hú is a famous fresh water lake located in the historic center of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. The lake is divided by the causeways of Sū Tí , Bái Tí , and Yánggōng Tí...

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Ling (灵) here means clever/smart, and feng (峰) means peak in Chinese. The hill is very famous for its plum blossoms (Ume

Ume

Prunus mume, with the common names including Chinese plum and Japanese apricot, is an Asian tree species classified in the Armeniaca section of the genus Prunus. The flower, long a beloved subject in the traditional painting of East Asia, is usually translated as plum blossom. This distinct tree...

) in the early spring, so there's a phrase

Phrase

In everyday speech, a phrase may refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words which form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. A phrase is lower on the grammatical hierarchy than a clause....

 namely Lingfeng Tanmei (灵峰探梅), which literally means exploring the plum blossoms on Lingfeng Hill (in early spring).　

The Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics

Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics

Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics (Traditional Chinese: 浙江大學近代物理中心, Simplified Chinese: 浙江近代物理中心 is a research center for theoretical physics...

, a research institute

Research institute

A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research...

 for theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

, is just located on the beautiful hill.