Diaoyucheng: thirty-six years on a peninsula of cliff and water
The Song fortress above the Jialing, the ground that fed it, and the siege in which the Great Khan Möngke died without an heir.
Hechuan.
Hechuan District takes its name from the place where the Jialing, Fu and Qu rivers come together. The Jialing runs 89.5 kilometres through the district, past seven bridges, and the town sits inside the loop the river makes. The district covers 2,343.30 square kilometres and counted 1,245,294 residents at the seventh national census; it was a county-level city until October 2006. Above the confluence on the Jialing stands the fortress of Diaoyu, where a Song garrison resisted the Mongols for thirty-six years. Hechuan is also recorded as the home of dragon boat racing in China.
Hechuan
Places
Diaoyucheng
The fortress on a peninsula above the Jialing where a Song garrison held out for thirty-six years.
Laitian
A Song-founded town on the Qu River whose cliff images hold the country's only surviving Chan dojo figures.
Longduo Mountain
A 624-metre hill where Buddhism and Taoism meet, with a thousand years of old stone carving.
Photo credits and rights
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HechuanXiumuzidiao / Public domain · Public domain Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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DiaoyuchengSiyuwj / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗