Caishiji

A Yangtze cliff remembered through Li Bai’s poems and later stories.

The river promontory known as Caishiji became a landmark in Li Bai’s literary geography. Its poems and legends should be read as different kinds of memory.

Taibai Tower stands among trees at Caishiji, a modern landmark tied to the place where later generations remember Li Bai’s visits to the river cliffs.

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Caishiji, where poetry meets the river cliff

Li Bai’s poems gave a dramatic river promontory a literary afterlife; the later moon-catching story belongs to legend.

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Taibai Tower stands among trees at Caishiji, a modern landmark tied to the place where later generations remember Li Bai’s visits to the river cliffs.Virgil Guo · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by Virgil Guo; the Commons file page records CC BY-SA 4.0. The saved file is the standard 1280px thumbnail (1280×960), not the upstream original (3968×2976); no enlargement, crop or retouching.