Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Huaqing Palace in Lintong
Begun as a hot-spring palace in 644 and renamed Huaqing by Emperor Xuanzong in 747, the Tang retreat at the foot of Mount Li is bound up with the story of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.
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Qinling
Grey-white peaks keep patches of snow near the top, with firs and birches on the slopes, a small lake among the meadow, and pink flowers blooming at lower right.
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Related Literature
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- Song of Everlasting RegretPoetryBai Juyi
In the heavens may we become twin birds flying wing to wing; upon the earth may we grow as entwined branches of two trees. Though heaven and earth may endure for eons, this everlasting sorrow shall know no end.