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Intact Ming brick battlements of Jingzhou Ancient City Wall encircle Jingzhou District, near the ancient Chu capital ruins at Jinan City.
Intact Ming brick battlements of Jingzhou Ancient City Wall encircle Jingzhou District, near the ancient Chu capital ruins at Jinan City.
Among the best-preserved brick city walls of southern China, Jingzhou's ramparts feature barbicans, soldier-hiding tunnels and secret passages, a stronghold fiercely contested in the Three Kingdoms.
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Standing where Guan Yu kept his headquarters during ten years defending Jingzhou, this temple first built in the early Ming is an ancestral centre of Guan Yu worship.
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The former home of Ming grand secretary Zhang Juzheng presents his Single Whip tax reform and Wanli-era policies alongside the grandeur of a grand tutor's mansion.
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Founded by imperial order in Tang Xuanzong's Kaiyuan era, the Taoist temple keeps well-preserved Yuan and Ming timber halls dedicated to the Patriarch and the Thunder God.
View attractionThe people of Zhou fled east, and its treasures, the Nine Tripods, entered Qin. Zhou was at an end.
In governing, Juzheng took as his principles honouring the sovereign's authority, examining officials' performance, making rewards and punishments reliable, and unifying commands.
