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Where is White Emperor City located?

Baidi City is located in No. 1 Baidi Village, Baidi Town, Fengjie County, Chongqing City. It is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River at the mouth of Qutang Gorge. Jigong Mountain is located at the entrance of the west end of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River (the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River starts from Baidi City in Fengjie, Chongqing in the west, and ends at Nanjin Pass in Yichang, Hubei in the east).

Baidi City has a number of city gates, including the East Gate, the Xiaobei Gate, the Dabei Gate, the Imperial Palace Taiurn Gate (Sanghe Gate), the Xiaoxi Gate, and the West Gate. The east and west gates are close to the Yangtze River. The construction of Baidi City was supplemented and built on the basis of the previous dynasties. Baidi City had the phenomenon that the city was surrounded by the city and the city was pressing against the city. , with strong military fortress characteristics.

The enclosed length of the Baidi City wall is nearly 7,000 meters, and the southern Song Dynasty city wall is about 3,900 meters. It is a rammed earth and stone structure. The main construction and use years were from Chunyou to the early Yuan to the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty. There are two one-character city walls at the Baidicheng site. One runs from Jiaochangba to Tanjiagou to the Yangtze River; the other runs from the southeast corner of Taiwengcheng, the imperial palace of Ziyang City, along the ridge through Guanshankou down to the riverside of Guanmiaotuo (Qutangguan). The two city walls together form the defense along the river to the west of Baidi City.

The one-character city wall of Guanshankou is a rammed earth and stone structure. The cleaning length is about 117 meters and the widest point is about 7.1 meters. The wall is high in the west and low in the east, which also reflects the consideration of defense in the west.

On May 25, 2006, Baidicheng was announced by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The famous poets Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Fan Chengda, Lu You and so on all once ascended to Baidi, visited Kuimen, and left a lot of poems, so Baidi City has the reputation of “Poetry City”.

Today’s Baidi City, in a broad sense, refers to the Baidi Temple, which includes Mingliang Hall, Wuhou Temple, and Guanxing Pavilion. The Mingliang Hall was built in the 12th year of Jiajing (1533) and is the main building in the temple. There are statues of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in it. The statues of Zhuge Liang’s ancestors and grandsons are in Wuhou Temple. The star-gazing pavilion in front of the temple is said to be the place where Zhuge Liang watched the stars at night.

On the left and right sides of Mingliang Hall and Wuhou Temple are monuments of various generations. There are also cultural relics exhibition room and poetry history hall in the temple, displaying the unearthed cultural relics since the Neolithic Age and the calligraphy and painting of ancient and modern masters. These ancient buildings and cultural relics make Baidi City even more beautiful.

In the Baidi Temple, there are many poems and inscriptions and cultural relics of past dynasties. Among them are the famous Bashu willow-leaf bronze sword in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the hanging coffin in Qutang Gorge in the Han and Jin Dynasties, 73 calligraphy and painting inscriptions, pottery and bronze cash cows since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, as well as more than 1,000 cultural relics of the past dynasties, and more than 100 paintings and calligraphy by ancient and modern masters, including The “Bamboo Leaf Monument” combines poetry and painting with a unique style; the “Three Kings Monument” is engraved with phoenix, peony and phoenix tree, which is exquisite and gorgeous and can be called a treasure.

There are more than 70 intact stone steles on display in the east and west stele forests, among which the inscriptions of the Sui Dynasty have a history of 1,300 to 400 years. In the East Stele Forest, “Phoenix Stele” and “Bamboo Leaf Stele” are the most eye-catching.