Tianmen Hills (East and West Liang Hills)
Facing each other across the Yangtze like the two leaves of a gate, the East and West Liang hills are the Tianmen of Li Bai's quatrain.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
He County
Tang poet Liu Yuxi immortalized Inscription of a Crude Room in Hexian, site of the 300,000-year-old Longtandong Hexian Homo erectus skull fossil.
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A place shaped through time
Tang poet Liu Yuxi immortalized Inscription of a Crude Room in Hexian, site of the 300,000-year-old Longtandong Hexian Homo erectus skull fossil.
He County
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Xiang Yu Shrine at Wujiang in He County
By the Wujiang crossing in He County, the shrine honours Xiang Yu where tradition holds he took his own life, the scene of Du Mu's quatrain weighing his defeat.
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Related Literature
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- Records of the Grand Historian: Basic Annals of Xiang YuClassical ProseSima Qian
My strength uprooted mountains, my spirit covered the world. But time favors me not, and Dapple gallops no more. When Dapple gallops no more, what can I do? Oh Yu, oh Yu, what fate awaits you!
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- Written at Wujiang PavilionClassical PoetryDu Mu
The young men east of the Yangtze were many and gifted; had he returned, rolling up the dust again, who knows what might have been?
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- History of Ming: Annals of Taizu (the Hongwu Emperor), Part 1Classical ProseZhang Tingyu (comp.)
How can a true man submit to being controlled by others?
- History of Ming: Biographies of Treacherous Ministers: Hu WeiyongClassical ProseZhang Tingyu (comp.)
Weiyong became all the more pleased and proud, and harboured treasonous designs.
- History of Ming: Biography of Chang YuchunClassical ProseZhang Tingyu (comp.)
Yuchun fought a great battle together with the other generals; their shouts shook heaven and earth, and every man was a match for a hundred.