Kuimen Gate of Qutang Gorge
The dramatic western entrance to the Three Gorges, famously depicted on China's 10-yuan banknote.
View attractionFengjie takes historic axes and public culture as a setting and develops its own local vocabulary.
In regional terms, the clearest first clue to Fengjie is “Fengjie takes historic axes and public culture as a setting and develops its own local vocabulary.” 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.
The dramatic western entrance to the Three Gorges, famously depicted on China's 10-yuan banknote.
View attraction