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Qianzhou was the walled seat that governed this corner of the west from 1704, until the government moved to Jishou in 1952. Its 1729 Confucian temple survived war, flood of politics and a school, and the capital is now moving back toward the walls.
Wangcun was a market town of Yongshun county until Xie Jin's 1986 film Hibiscus Town was shot in its streets, and in 2007 the town took the film's name. The high-speed corridor now brings the audience to the set.
The Aizhai bridge throws a 1,176-metre span over the Dehang gorge on the road from Hunan toward Guizhou, and the expressway package around it is two-thirds bridges and tunnels. It replaced a four-hour drive with an hour's run.
The Dehang gorge at Jishou runs under the Aizhai suspension bridge and beside Miao and Tujia villages, bundled into a 5A scenic area with Shibadong. The visit now runs from the engineering of the deck down to the water.
Fenghuang was a garrison of six thousand residents and eight thousand soldiers before it was a postcard, and the Tuo river still runs the town's middle. Its 5A rating, its maglev and its floods all belong to the same century.