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| "Baidicheng", "Baidi City" or "White Emperor City" is not a real city, but a mini peninsular town with some temples and gates on top of Baidi Hill in Fengjie County, located at the entrance of the Qutang Gorge and 8 km from Fengjie County seat. Climbing over 500 steps, you can reach the top. It is the starting point of Three Gorges and the reason the place is most famous for. Li Po, a great poet in Tang Dynasty had a very famous poem about the city. White Emperor City was the place where a popular story happened. Liu Bei, the King of Shu Kingdom in Three Kingdoms period, before he was dead, entrusted his state power and his son to Zhuge Liang, his Prime Minister and talented advisor (See Yong'an Palace). Wax statues in the temple describe the moment in 220 AD. An observation pavilion standing west of the Baidi Temple has 12 pillars on the ground floor and 6 on the upper floor, with upturned eaves and polished beams. It was said that Zhuge Liang once watched the stars and thought of the strategy here. Also known as City of Poems, in the White Emperor City, there are over 70 poems, carvings, and cultural relics of the Sui, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them, two steles from Sui, Qing Emperor Kangxi, Bamboo-Leaf Stele and Phoenix Stele are the most outstanding. The White Emperor City is surrounded by the river on three sides and backed by a mountain. There stands a statue of a Sichuan girl sitting on the back of an ox singing Bamboo Songs, which in fact are popular folk songs among the natives of the Three Gorges. It is said that the White Emperor City was founded by Gongsun Shu in 25 AD during the Eastern Han Dynasty when he saw a white dragon coming out of the well and declared himself the White Emperor. As in Chinese culture, the dragon was often regarded as the symbol of an emperor. Poets, contemporary or ancient, would compose some poems when visiting here. Inscribed Tablets at Baidi City (White Emperor City) Baidi City (White Emperor City) is a center of historical relics in the Three Gorges. Preserved in this town are seventy-four stone tablets of the Sui, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties inscribed with poems, essays, antithetical couplets, pictures and calligraphy. The calligraphy of the inscriptions on the stone tablets is in the styles of great and small seal characters, official script of the Han Dynasty, script of the Wei Dynasty, regular script, running hand or cursive hand, each having its own characteristics. The most valuable inscription is to be found on the Memorial Tablet to Lord Longshan, which is executed in a forceful calligraphy that combines the styles of the southern and northern calligraphers. The inscription is about 1,300-1,400 years old. The tablet was unearthed in 1859 in the ninth year of the Xianfeng reign of the Qing Dynasty when a fort was being built at the northwestern corner of the town of Fengjie. The top edge of the same tablet are newly carved words: "Flood water caused a disaster, rising to a level fifty feet higher than the town on the nineteenth day of the sixth month in the ninth year of the Tongzhi reign." It is a truthful record of the notorious flood of the Yangtze River in 1870 and a rare piece of hydrological history. Phoenix Stele. Engraved on the stele are phoenixes, king of birds, peony, king of flowers and Chinese parasol, king of trees. So it is also called "Three King Stele". Two of the stone tablets are carved with pictures of unique styles. One is carved with a phoenix, the king of birds; a peony, the king of flowers; and a parasol tree, the king of trees. The tablet is therefore called the Phoenix Tablet or the Tablet of Three Kings. The other is called the Bamboo Leaf Tablet because it is carved with a poem with all the characters made up by bamboo leaves. Both are unusually conceived. |
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| ¡¡ Qutang Gorge sight | |
| ¡¡ Baidi City sight | |
| ¡¡ Yong'an Palace sight | |
| ¡¡ Wu gorge sight | |
| ¡¡ Zigui sight | |
| ¡¡ Xiling gorge sight | |
| ¡¡ Three gorges Dam sight | |
| ¡¡ little three gorges sight | |
| ¡¡ Fengdu sight | |
| ¡¡ Shibaozhai sight | |
| ¡¡ Zhangfei Temple sight | |
| ¡¡ Wanxian sight | |