A general's temple, taken apart and rebuilt thirty-two kilometres east
Zhang Fei's temple stood on the south bank for seventeen centuries. At 130 to 160 metres above the river, it could not stay.
Yunyang.
Yunyang County lies in the heart of the Three Gorges reservoir area on the upper Yangtze, between Fengjie and Wanzhou. Qin set up Juren County here in 314 BC; the seat moved to Tangkou in 568 and the county became Yun'an, then a prefecture in 1283 and a county again in 1373. On 28 September 1999 the seat left the old town for Shuangjiang on the north bank, the furthest full relocation of a county seat in the reservoir, with more than 170,000 people moved. The county has 920,000 residents, and in its south-east corner the limestone basin of Longgang.
Yunyang
Longgang: the limestone basin at the end of the county road
A basin in Yunyang's south-east corner, eighty kilometres from the county seat, rated a geopark and named for what it looks like from above.
ReadThe county seat that moved furthest, and the first 150 households
Yunyang moved its seat in 1999, further than any other reservoir county. A year later, 150 of its households left for Shanghai.
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Zhang Fei Temple
A general's temple that stood on the south bank for seventeen centuries and was taken apart and rebuilt thirty-two kilometres east.
Longgang
A limestone basin in the south-east corner of Yunyang, eighty kilometres from the county seat and rated a national geopark.
Old Yunyang
The drowned county seat of Yunyang, moved in 1999 to Shuangjiang in the furthest full relocation of the reservoir.
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