Dongpo Red Cliff

Dongpo Red Cliff stands at Huangzhou in today’s Huanggang. Its reddish rock gave it an identity before it became inseparable from Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo. The Yangtze’s course and banks have changed, so the surviving cliff is no longer a simple reconstruction of the waterside setting in the poems. The stone, the later buildings and the remembered river belong to different layers of the place.