Take You to White Emperor City of Yangtze River Tour

Located in Chongqing, Eight miles downstream from Fenjie County, on the northern bank of the Yangtze River is White Emperor City (白帝城), also called Baidi Temple ofTour China. It is an ancient temple located atop Baidi Mountain directly overlooking the Qutang Gorge, one of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. It is also the best place to overlook “Kui Gate” which is at the entrance to Qutang Gorge. Two perpendicular cliffs rear over the river surface on either side, looking like a pair of giant door leaves.

The White Emperor City Yangtze river cruise is said to have been built by Gongsun Shu, an official turned soldier, as the site of his headquarters near the end of the Western Han Dynasty. The legend goes that in 25 A.D. Gong Sunshu saw white vapor in the shape of a dragon rising from a nearby well. Taking this to be an auspicious omen, he declared himself the 'White Emperor' and renamed the town 'White Emperor City'. Later in 36A.D. he waged war against Liuxiu (Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty), then a member of the Han imperial family. During this turbulent period, the city survived completely intact. The grateful local people then built a temple to commemorate him. During the Ming Dynasty, the statue of Gongsun Shu was replaced with a new one for Liubei and later with three for Guanyu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang.

On both sides of Mingliang temple and Wuhou temple for luxury China tours, tablets of every dynasty are kept. In BaidiCheng Temple, there are exhibition rooms with displays of historical and cultural relics since the Neolithic period, as well as famous paintings and poems from masters of that era. Examples are the famous willow-leaf-shaped bronze swords of Bashu period in eastern Zhou dynasty, the hanging coffins relics of the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, 73 inscriptions of poems and paintings since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are also pottery, a cash tree, other ancient relics and more than 100 pieces of calligraphy and paintings written or drawn by old masters.