Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Old Tongguan Pass Town
Guarding the eastern entry to the Guanzhong plain where the Wei meets the Yellow River, the pass was first built in 196 CE, demolished in the 1960s for the Sanmenxia dam, and rebuilt as a heritage town from 2011.
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- Meditations at Tongguan PassDramaZhang Yanghao
Mountain peaks gather close, wild billows surge in wrath; fortress pass of Tongguan framed by mountains and rushing stream. Gazing toward the Western Capital, hesitation weighs upon my soul. Sorrow strikes traversing the ancient lands of Qin and Han: ten thousand palace halls have all turned to dust. In imperial rise, the common people suffer; in imperial fall, the common people suffer.