Yongle Palace and the Murals of the Pure Yang Hall
A Yuan Daoist palace built for Lu Dongbin, its four painted halls, and the operation that took the building and its murals apart and put them back on higher ground.
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The Temple of Guan Yu at Jiezhou
The largest Guan Yu temple in China is read through its courts, its named halls and the three places that divide one life between a birthplace and two graves.
The Temple of the God of Grain at Jishan
A temple to Houji on the main street of Jishan's county town, read through the three temples that share the name and the farming basin around them.
Dayudu: Lifting the Yellow River onto the Plain
An old ferry crossing in Rucheng, the name of a flood-tamer attached to it, and the slope that makes water from the river something to be raised.
Feiyun Tower: A Timber Structure in Wanrong
A tower of 1746 standing just inside a temple gate in Wanrong, read from below through its 345 bracket sets and four columns that run the full height.
The Stork Tower at Yongji, and the Tower in the Poem
The tower a Tang poem made famous, the concrete tower standing at Yongji now, and what the gap between the two of them does to the view.
Pujiu Temple and the Story of the West Chamber
A temple near the ruins of Puzhou whose relic pagoda was renamed for a fictional heroine, read alongside the Yuan play that gave it its fame.
Salt Works on the Yuncheng Salt Lake
The lake that made the region rich, the evaporation that concentrates its brine, and the walled town that the salt administration built at the end of the Yuan.