Qikou: A Trading Port on the Yellow River
A river port of the Ming and Qing in Linxian, read through its five-li street of shopfronts, the Black Dragon Temple above it and the seven clusters of dwellings the 2006 listing covers.
Lüliang.
Lüliang is a prefecture-level city in western Shanxi, bordering Shaanxi across the Yellow River to the west and reaching east to Jinzhong and the provincial capital, Taiyuan. It covers 21,143 square kilometres and counted 3,398,431 residents in 2020, of whom 456,355 lived in Lishi District. The ground climbs from the river into the Lüliang range, with the Taiyuan basin at the eastern edge and the Fen and its tributary the Wenyu running along that side. Coal, iron and aluminium shaped the modern economy. The area became a prefecture-level area in May 1971 and a city in July 2004; it governs one district, ten counties and two county-level cities, Fenyang first among them.
Lüliang
Places
Qikou
A river port in Linxian, Lüliang, where a five-li street of shopfronts, a temple on Wuwu Hill and seven clusters of dwellings were listed as a national monument in 2006.
Xiwan Village
A village of Qikou town in Linxian, Lüliang, named in the first batch of Chinese historical and cultural villages in 2003 and the first batch of traditional villages in 2012.
Xianglu Temple
A shrine in Liulin County, a Yellow River county of Lüliang; the material used here sets out the county rather than the temple itself.
Xuanzhong Temple
The ancestral temple of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, in the Stone Wall Mountains of Jiaocheng, begun in 472 and rebuilt in the twentieth century around one Ming hall.
Beiwudang Mountain
A granite Daoist mountain in Fangshan County, Lüliang, with 72 peaks, 1,400-odd steps to a 1,985-metre summit and a name shared with Wudang in Hubei.
Xinghuacun
A distillery village in Fenyang, the county-level city administered by Lüliang, where Fenjiu is fermented in earthen jars for a month and distilled twice.