Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Liu Zongyuan Temple in Yongzhou
Honouring Liu Zongyuan, exiled to Yongzhou in 805, the shrine moved in 1144 to the mouth of the Yu Brook he wrote about; its three courtyards were rebuilt in 1877.
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Zhangjiajie
Tall stone pillars crowned with trees stand in thin mist, while pine and broadleaf branches reach in from the right and the farther pillars fade softly away.
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- Preface to Poems of the Foolish StreamProseLiu Zongyuan
Water is what the wise delight in; why then is this stream alone disgraced with the name of folly? When I sing of Foolish Stream in foolish words, all is vague and nothing is at odds; I pass beyond primal chaos and merge with the soundless and invisible, alone in silence where no one knows me.