Jianmen Pass
The formidable mountain gateway on the Shu Road where 'one man at the pass can hold off ten thousand'.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Jian Ge County
The sheer, impregnable sandstone cliff gorge at Jianmen Pass 5A and thousands of ancient imperial cypress trees along Cuiyun Gallery crown Jiange.
Regional story
A place shaped through time
The sheer, impregnable sandstone cliff gorge at Jianmen Pass 5A and thousands of ancient imperial cypress trees along Cuiyun Gallery crown Jiange.
Jian Ge County
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Atlas Attractions
Jianmen Pass Gate Tower & Defile
Amid seventy-two sword-like peaks, Jianmen Pass is the ultimate image of the hard Shu roads, a cliff gateway where one man could hold off ten thousand.
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Related Literature
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- The Hard Road to ShuClassical PoetryLi Bai
Ah, alas, how perilous and towering! The road to Shu is harder than climbing to the cerulean blue sky!
- New History of the Five Dynasties: Hereditary House of Later Shu: Meng ChangClassical ProseOuyang Xiu (comp.)
My father and I fed and clothed our soldiers well for forty years, and when the enemy came not one would shoot a single arrow eastward for me.