Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Hanshan Temple in Suzhou
Traditionally dated to the Tianjian era of the Liang dynasty and facing the old canal, the temple owes its worldwide fame to the midnight bell in Zhang Ji's poem.
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Suzhou
A tall red multi-storey pagoda stands in a lakeside garden among pale rockwork, pines and bare-branched trees, with white houses in the distance and its reflection on the water.
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- Night Mooring at Maple BridgePoetryZhang Ji
The moon sets, crows caw, frost fills the sky; river maples and fishermen's lamps face my troubled sleep.