Shibaozhai

Shibaozhai stands on the north bank of the Yangtze at Shibao town in Zhong County. The rock rises sheer by the river, more than ten zhang high, in red-cliff landform; legend makes it a five-coloured stone left from Nüwa's repair of the sky, and its jade-seal shape gives the name Yuyin Mountain. In the last years of the Ming, Tan Hong held the hill as a stronghold, which gave the place its name. The tower against it is twelve storeys and entirely of timber, and after the reservoir filled a great dike was built around the whole stronghold.