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.
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Longduo Mountain: a hill of old stone on the western range
The 624-metre hill west of Hechuan, the alchemist who gives its story its opening, and a thousand years of stone carving.
Laitian: a Chan dojo cut into the cliff above a walled town
A Song-founded town on the Qu River, its surviving Qing barbican, and the cliff images with a seventeen-metre seated Maitreya.