The river that went west
The Yuan River is the old road between Changde and the western mountains, carrying boats, timber and mountain goods down to Dongting Lake. Its course, its trading past and its working present are followed here.
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A city built around a lake
Changde kept an open lake at its northeast edge and organised its newest identity around the shore. The lake, the plan that protected it, and the waterfront life it now anchors make up this story.
The spring no one could find again
In 421 CE Tao Yuanming wrote of a fisherman who found a hidden village through the peach blossom and could never find it again. This is the tale, the Changde valley that claims it, and the idiom the story left behind.