Bagong Mountain: the hills around the Huainanzi
Liu An’s Huainanzi is remembered in the landscape of Bagong Mountain, where the physical hills and later tales should be read as separate kinds of evidence.
Huainan.
A city where Chu-state archaeology and the literary memory of the Huainanzi meet the limestone hills.
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Shouxian: searching for the last capital of Chu
A new wall trace at Shou County changes how archaeologists draw the late Chu capital, while the visible old town carries later layers.
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The entrance to Bagong Mountain Scenic Area, a cultural landscape associated with Liu An and the Huainanzi.Photographer not credited on the source page · Rights unknown; selected under the established official-source policy Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Original bytes retained without retouching, cropping, or enlargement in the private research archive; rights remain unknown.
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Shouxian’s city gate, photographed by 超越宝宝 on 2 October 2009. The surviving wall belongs to the later town layers discussed in the story; this photograph does not show the late Chu capital’s newly identified wall trace.超越宝宝 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Saved file is the standard Wikimedia 1280px thumbnail (1280×960), not the 3264×2448 upstream original. Commons credits 超越宝宝, dates the image 2 October 2009, and states CC BY-SA 4.0 (among compatible legacy licenses). No watermark or added overlay is visible.
