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.

Shaanxi

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  • Song of Everlasting RegretClassical PoetryBai 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.