Yongzhou

The old town of the southern prefecture ↗

Lingling was the seat of the prefecture of Yongzhou and keeps the street pattern of that administrative town. Its walls went up in 124 BC, a Han garrison map records its early standing, and it is today one of Yongzhou's two urban districts.

A village with a bridge at its gate ↗

Shanggantang is a Zhou-family village of Ming and Qing houses in Jiangyong County, with a stone bridge at its gate that has stood since 1126. The Buyin Bridge carried the old post road, and the village was listed as a historic Chinese village in 2007.

The philosopher and the stream that named him ↗

Zhou Dunyi wrote the diagram that founded Neo-Confucianism, and his home county of Dao still names itself after the Lian stream he took as his title. Born there in 1017, he gave the county's subdistrict, academy and square the Lianxi name it now wears.