at the south bank of the Yangtze River. It was first built in Qing Dynasty in 1750, with a height of 56 meters. Shibaozhai is simply a rectangular rock with sheer cliffs, standing on the riverside.

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...

the carvings on cliffs, and the Ancient Music Terrace (Guqintai). Sheshan has the shape of an immense snake with its head drinking from the Yangtze River and its tail cutting into the eastern part ...