Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Wuyi Lane in Nanjing
Once the camp of the Wu kingdom's black-clad guards on the Qinhuai's south bank, the lane housed the Eastern Jin clans of Wang Dao and Xie An, whose vanished glory Liu Yuxi mourned.
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- Black Robe LanePoetryLiu Yuxi
The swallows that once nested before the halls of the Wang and Xie clans now fly into the homes of ordinary people.
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- 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.