The fortress at the gorge mouth, and the water that made it an island
Baidicheng has been a temple, a Southern Song fortress and a cruise stop. The reservoir drowned the town below and left the hill standing in the river.
Fengjie County holds the western end of the Three Gorges, where the Yangtze cuts the Qutang Gorge through the Qiyao Mountains. A county has stood here since 314 BC, when Qin set up Yufu; in 649 it took the name Fengjie to honour Zhuge Liang's loyalty to Liu Bei. At 4,098 square kilometres it is the second-largest county-level division in Chongqing, with 41.5 kilometres of the Yangtze and ground running from 86 metres at the mouth of the gorge to 2,123 metres. It carried the heaviest resettlement in the reservoir, 128,000 people, and its navel orange is a geographical indication product. Poets left ten thousand poems here.
Baidicheng has been a temple, a Southern Song fortress and a cruise stop. The reservoir drowned the town below and left the hill standing in the river.
The fortified hill at the mouth of the Qutang Gorge, named for a white dragon, walled by the Southern Song and turned into an island by the reservoir.
The shortest and narrowest of the Three Gorges, eight kilometres long, with the haulers' path cut into its cliffs.
The navel orange country above the Qutang water: a Chinese geographical indication grown on the county's slopes.