Kuimen Gate of Qutang Gorge
The dramatic western entrance to the Three Gorges, famously depicted on China's 10-yuan banknote.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · Prefecture-level
Fengjie
Fengjie, the city of poetry, stands at Kuimen gate of Qutang Gorge with Baidicheng above the Yangtze, and is famous for navel oranges.
Regional story
A place shaped through time
In regional terms, the clearest first clue to Fengjie is “Fengjie, the city of poetry, stands at Kuimen gate of Qutang Gorge with Baidicheng above the Yangtze, and is famous for navel oranges.” Together, environmental, historical, and cultural elements give Fengjie a profile that can be distinguished from nearby places. Continuing local life gave inherited spaces new uses and memories, allowing historical layers and contemporary activity to coexist. Today, the interaction between environment and society remains visible in landscape, urban texture, daily activity, and local memory. These details make Fengjie a clear case of how a wider region is built from specific places and sustained lives.
Fengjie
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Atlas Attractions
Qutang Gorge Fengxiang Ancient Plank Road Site
On the precipices of Kuimen, square post holes of an old plank road and hanging coffins reveal the remarkable tenacity of the ancient Ba and Shu peoples.
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Baidicheng Tuogu Hall in Fengjie
After his defeat at Yiling, Liu Bei of Shu Han retreated to Baidicheng, where he entrusted his son and the realm to Zhuge Liang on his deathbed.
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Related Literature
4Set here2
- Departing Early from Baidi CityClassical PoetryLi Bai
While gibbons on both shores wail incessantly, my swift light skiff has slipped past ten thousand fold mountain ranges.
- New History of the Five Dynasties: Hereditary House of Later Shu: Meng ChangClassical ProseOuyang Xiu (comp.)
My father and I fed and clothed our soldiers well for forty years, and when the enemy came not one would shoot a single arrow eastward for me.
Written here2
- Climbing HighClassical PoetryDu Fu
Boundless falling leaves rustle and shower down; unending Yangtze waters surge and roll on. Ten thousand leagues away lamenting autumn, forever a wandering guest; enduring a lifetime of sickness, all alone I climb the high terrace.
- Bamboo Branch Songs, No. 1 of TwoClassical PoetryLiu Yuxi
Sun rising in the east, rain in the west: you'd say there's no clear sky, yet clear sky there is.