Legend has it that the rocky hill was a stone among those collected by Goddess Nuva to repair the sky damaged by rebell Gonggong. After all the gaps in the sky were filled, she found there was still one stone left so just casually tossed it away.
There are several versions regarding where the stone eventually fell to.
One said it found its home at the Soul River in an immortal world, and once incarnated into a super rich Chinese family and became the leading character in a romance recorded by the novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
Another said it landed at the bank of the Yangtze River where a Daoist temple with a nine story pagoda was built as shown in the photo.
Of course, all above are just tales, but here is a history.
In the dying years of the Ming Dynasty in the middle 17th century where peasant uprising occurred everywhere in China, a rebel named Tan Hong occupied this hill and set his headquarters here, which is how the name Precious Stone Fortress came.
There are several versions regarding where the stone eventually fell to.
One said it found its home at the Soul River in an immortal world, and once incarnated into a super rich Chinese family and became the leading character in a romance recorded by the novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
Another said it landed at the bank of the Yangtze River where a Daoist temple with a nine story pagoda was built as shown in the photo. Of course, all above are just tales, but here is a history.
In the dying years of the Ming Dynasty in the middle 17th century where peasant uprising occurred everywhere in China, a rebel named Tan Hong occupied this hill and set his headquarters here, which is how the name Precious Stone Fortress came.
Precious Stone Fortress by the Yangtze River (2)
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