Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Qinhuai River in Nanjing
A 110 km tributary of the lower Yangtze whose run through old Nanjing is called the Ten-Li Qinhuai; the name spread widely only after Du Mu's poem on mooring there.
Related Literature
2Depicts1
- Mooring on the Qinhuai RiverPoetryDu Mu
The singing girls do not know the grief of a fallen kingdom; across the river they still sing "Flowers in the Rear Court."
Mentions1
- The Peach Blossom Fan: Lingering EchoesDramaKong Shangren
Behold him raising vermilion towers, behold him feasting noble guests, behold his towering mansions crash to ruins! Upon these piles of moss-grown emerald tiles, I once slept romantic dreams, drinking my fill of fifty years of dynastic rise and fall.