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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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Nanchong.

Nanchong's identity is made of two things that rarely sit together: a modern silk industry and an old city at Langzhong that still follows a river bend. Both depend on the Jialing.

Langzhong Ancient City
Langzhong old city, Nanchong

Nanchong

Langzhong Ancient City

The town inside the bend

Langzhong's old city fills the inside of a Jialing River bend, with Ming-Qing lanes, courtyards, guild halls and a temple to Zhang Fei.

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Nanchong Silk Park

The filature that still runs

Nanchong's Six He Silk Park, built on a former filature, keeps reeling equipment, rapier looms and a route that follows silk from cocoon to cloth.

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Places

Langzhong Ancient City

A Ming-Qing old city inside a Jialing River bend, still lived in and still read as a feng-shui plan.

Nanchong Silk Park

A former filature turned industrial museum, where the route from cocoon to silk is still demonstrated.
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  1. Langzhong old city, Nanchongliuzusai 刘祖赛 / CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  2. Reeling silk, historical illustrationUnknown (historical photograph) / No restrictions · No restrictions Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.