Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Taosi Site in Xiangfen
A walled-city site of about 2300 to 2000 BCE in Xiangfen, Shanxi, where an ancient observatory structure was identified in 2003 and a painted dragon plate was found.
Mural guide
Loess Plateau
Yellow earth ridges are cut by gullies into layered slopes, with a row of arched cave dwellings in the cliff on the right and a few bare trees and small pines scattered about.
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