Yecheng Jinfeng & Bronze Sparrow Terraces Site
After defeating Yuan Shao, Cao Cao made Ye his base and built three terraces, later celebrated in Cao Zhi's Rhapsody on the Bronze Sparrow Terrace and the Jian'an literary movement.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Lin Zhang County
Earthen mounds of the Bronze Sparrow Terrace at Yecheng Site in Linzhang mark the six-dynasty capital where Cao Cao composed Jian'an poetry.
Regional story
A place shaped through time
Earthen mounds of the Bronze Sparrow Terrace at Yecheng Site in Linzhang mark the six-dynasty capital where Cao Cao composed Jian'an poetry.
Lin Zhang County
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Atlas Attractions
Yecheng Museum Northern Dynasties Buddha Statues
Nearly three thousand Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Buddhist statues in the Yecheng style, of gilded and painted white marble with openwork, mark a major breakthrough in Chinese Buddhist archaeology.
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North Ye City Central Axis City Planning Site
Ye's single palace city, symmetrical axis and zoned layout pioneered a capital plan that later inspired Sui-Tang Chang'an and capitals across East Asia.
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Zhanghe Ancient Channel & Ye Three Terraces
Ximen Bao's twelve canals drawing on the Zhang River formed an early irrigation system, while the twelve-metre rammed-earth base of the Jinfeng Terrace still stands today.
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Related Literature
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- Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of the Prince of Wei (Lord Xinling)Classical ProseSima Qian
The reason I allied myself with you through marriage was for your noble honor in rescuing others in distress. Now Handan faces surrender while Wei relief comes not—where is your honor in aiding the desperate!
- Records of the Three Kingdoms: Biographies of Empresses and ConsortsClassical ProseChen Shou
Now the world is in disorder, and we are buying many treasures. A common man is innocent, but holding a jade disc is his crime.
- Book of the Later Han: Biographies of Deng Yu and Kou XunClassical ProseFan Ye
I only wish that your majestic virtue may reach the four seas, and that I may contribute my foot or inch and leave my name on bamboo and silk.
- Book of Wei: Annals of Gaozu (Emperor Xiaowen), Part 2Classical ProseWei Shou (comp.)
In battle dress, whip in hand, he rode out; the ministers knocked their heads before his horse, begging him to halt the southern campaign, and the emperor stopped. So the plan to move the capital was settled.
Mentions4
- Records of the Grand Historian: Hereditary House of WeiClassical ProseSima Qian
When a family is poor it longs for a good wife; when a state is in disorder it longs for a good minister
- Records of the Three Kingdoms: Biographies of the Princes of Rencheng, Chen and XiaoClassical ProseChen Shou
When I speak it becomes discourse; when I put brush to paper it becomes composition. Test me face to face; why would I get someone else?
- Book of Jin: Record of Liu YuanhaiClassical ProseFang Xuanling (comp.)
Have emperors and kings ever had a fixed origin? Great Yu came from the Western Rong and King Wen was born among the Eastern Yi; it depends only on whom virtue is given to.
- Book of Sui: Biographies of Gao Jiong and Su WeiClassical ProseWei Zheng (comp.)
Sovereign and minister are united in the Way; no green fly can come between us.