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Shibaozhai, Literally means Stone Treasure Fortress, Located in ZhongCounty,
at the south bank of the Yangtze River, 278 km away from Chongqing,
it was first built in Qing Dynasty in 1750. Shibaozhai is one historic
site that will look much different in 2009. When the lake formed by
the Three Gorges Dam is completed, most of this bluff will be under
water and the temple will sit close to the lake's edge on a newly
formed island. The wooden architecture stands on the riverside. It
is built by catch upon a rectangular rock with sheer cliffs with a
height of 56 meters and 12 stories. And every floor of the wooden
structure contains interesting artifacts. Each of the 12 floors of
Shibaozhai is dedicated to a famous general of the Three Kingdoms
period (220-265AD), a local scholar or a remowned Chinese poet.
Climbing the 12 stories is not as difficult as it may sound because
you will need time to look at the paintings and sculptures on each
level. Nowadays, it takes about 1.5 hours to climb from the pier to
the top of Shibaozhai and round back from a back footpath. from our
perspective, the statue enshrined in temple on the top flat looks
not quite uniform, the reason local people enshrine GuanYu (who is
known as military god in Chinese) in the first room of the temple
is there was local troop gathered here, and in the second room, the
Yu Huang and the baby-birthing god, maybe the enshrined statues are
what the local people need most rather than what you seen in Fengdu. |
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