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Water, stone and high valleys

A regional view of Sichuan

Follow the Min and the Yangtze, then climb into the high valleys, to see how the regions and their places sit across Sichuan. Points are representative references, not boundaries, gates or routes.

Sichuan
Chengdu Deyang Leshan Ya'an Aba Ganzi Liangshan Yibin Zigong Heming Teahouse Jinsha Site Dujiangyan Sanxingdui Leshan Giant Buddha Mount Emei Mengding Mountain Dengchigou Hejiangmen Shenhai Well Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Taoping Qiang Village Suopo Towers Dege Printing House Jianchang Ancient City Mianyang Guangyuan Meishan Nanchong Luzhou Li Bai Memorial Yuewang Tower Mianyang Science City Qianfo Cliff Mingyue Gorge Huangze Temple Sansu Shrine Qingshen Bamboo Weaving Langzhong Ancient City Nanchong Silk Park Luzhou Old Pits Fubao Ancient Town Wuhou Shrine Du Fu Thatched Cottage

Approximate regional orientation · north is up · not for navigation

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Meishan.

Meishan is often passed on the way to Leshan. The city's own story is quieter: a Song-dynasty family of writers, a shrine in the water, and a county where bamboo is split finer than a matchstick.

Sansu Shrine
Sansu Shrine, Meishan

Meishan

Qingshen Bamboo Weaving

A strip thin as thread

Qingshen bamboo weaving splits bamboo into strips as thin as thread for baskets, fans and pictures; the national listing calls the craft endangered.

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Places

Sansu Shrine

The former residence of Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe, rebuilt as a shrine in the water.

Qingshen Bamboo Weaving

A county craft of splitting bamboo into thread-fine strips and weaving baskets, fans and pictures.
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  1. Sansu Shrine, MeishanN509FZ / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  2. Bamboo weaving, illustrative imageAuongkinghe / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.