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Tongguan Ancient Pass commands where the Yellow, Wei, and Luo rivers meet in Tongguan, celebrated for flaky thousand-layer Tongguan Rougamo buns.
Tongguan Ancient Pass commands where the Yellow, Wei, and Luo rivers meet in Tongguan, celebrated for flaky thousand-layer Tongguan Rougamo buns.
Guarding the eastern entry to the Guanzhong plain where the Wei meets the Yellow River, the pass was first built in 196 CE, demolished in the 1960s for the Sanmenxia dam, and rebuilt as a heritage town from 2011.
View attractionMountain peaks gather close, wild billows surge in wrath; fortress pass of Tongguan framed by mountains and rushing stream. Gazing toward the Western Capital, hesitation weighs upon my soul. Sorrow strikes traversing the ancient lands of Qin and Han: ten thousand palace halls have all turned to dust. In imperial rise, the common people suffer; in imperial fall, the common people suffer.
The river, on the great plain, still chafes at its confines; the mountains, entering Tong Pass, refuse to lie level.
That day the emperor, with the princes, consorts and empress, several hundred riders in all, left the inner city by the Hanguang Hall and the Jinguang Gate and fled to Shannan.
When Ziyi and Li Guangbi came with all their forces to the travelling court, the army's fame revived, and the people began to hope for the restoration.
Apart from my clothes, everything I have was given by Your Majesty's grace, and there is nothing I can leave you; but my hair and skin are from my parents.
Su Chuo is truly a remarkable man; I shall entrust him with government.
If we do not kill him to make amends to the realm, how can we still the anger of the four seas?
