Shanjuan Cave in Yixing
A world-famous limestone underground water cave associated with the Butterfly Lovers legend.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Yi Xing City
Millennia of Zisha purple clay teapot mastercraft flourish in Yixing, celebrated for the underground river chambers of Shanjuan Cave and Bamboo Sea.
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A place shaped through time
Millennia of Zisha purple clay teapot mastercraft flourish in Yixing, celebrated for the underground river chambers of Shanjuan Cave and Bamboo Sea.
Yi Xing City
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- A New Account of Tales of the World: Zhou Chu Eliminating the Three EvilsClassical FictionLiu Yiqing (comp.)
The ancients prized hearing the Way in the morning even if one dies that evening; and your future, sir, still holds promise. A man should worry only that his will is not established; why worry that a good name will not become known?
- Sequel to the Records of Qi Xie: The Scholar of YangxianClassical FictionWu Jun
A scholar climbs into a goose cage, 'and the cage grew no larger and the scholar no smaller'; he brings a feast and a woman out of his mouth, she brings out a lover, he brings out another woman, and after all are swallowed back he leaves a great bronze tray as a keepsake.
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- Oath Written at the Shrine of the Five PeaksClassical ProseYue Fei
To welcome the two emperors back to the capital, restore the lost lands to our maps
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- Book of Chen: Annals of Gaozu, Part 1Classical ProseYao Silian (comp.)
The hills and streams here are so fine that a king must arise from this place; two hundred years from now my descendants will surely receive this fortune.