Hukou Falls from the Shanxi Bank
The Yellow River fall at the Shanxi-Shaanxi border, seen from Ji County: how the river is squeezed into a flask mouth, what the flood season does, and the bridge that joins the banks.
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Linfen
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Yunqiu Mountain and the County Beneath It
The mountain country of Xiangning County: 2,029 square kilometres at the southern foot of the Lüliang range, between the Fen valley and the Yellow River, with its seat at Changning.
Xiaoxitian: Colour and Craft in a Small Temple
A late Ming temple on Phoenix Hill in Xixian, where a five-bay hall holds more than 1,900 clay figures in suspended relief, begun under the last Ming emperor and finished under the first Qing.
The Mausoleum of Yao Outside Linfen
A mound in Yaodu District that one tradition calls the tomb of Yao, a national protected site, and one of several places in China that claim him.
The Temple of Yao in Linfen
A temple founded in the Western Jin, moved across the Fen in 658 and rebuilt twice in living memory: the buildings, the fires and the line between the ruler and the site.
Taosi: A City Older Than the Records That Name It
A Longshan walled town in the Fen valley, its dates, its 280-hectare middle city, and the semicircular platform read as the oldest observatory in East Asia.
The Pagoda Tree at Hongtong and the Migration Story
The tree, the park and the Ming migration: what the old records list, what the folk rhyme says, and how a county seat came to be named after a locust tree.
The Feihong Pagoda, a Tower of Coloured Glaze
A thirteen-storey pagoda raised between 1515 and 1527 in the upper court of Guangsheng Temple, its brick core wrapped in glazed figures, and two earthquakes survived.
Guangsheng Temple on the Slope of Mount Huoshan
Three building groups on one hillside: the Ming upper temple, the Yuan lower temple above the Huoquan spring, and the water-god hall whose Yuan murals show a troupe performing.