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Guangfu is a walled town on a peninsula in the Yongnian marsh, with a Ming brick wall, a wide moat and the former houses of the founders of Yang- and Wu-style tai chi. Its streets and gates still follow the plan of a prefecture seat.
The Xiangtangshan caves near Handan were carved for the Northern Qi court in the sixth century, with sutras cut into the rock and a possible imperial burial chamber above a central pillar. Many of their sculptures were later removed to museums abroad.
Wahuang Palace in She County honours Nüwa, the goddess who mended the sky, and holds two caves of Northern Qi Buddhist scripture cut into the cliff. The temple buildings are Ming; the myth and the stone text are older, and the site is still treated as a shrine.
Cizhou ware was made for ordinary tables along the Zhang and Fu rivers: sturdy bowls, jars and pillows of coarse clay, covered in white slip and painted in black. Its potters wrote poems and painted scenes from plays, and the kilns produced the first overglaze enamels in China.