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綿陽簡介 (Mian Yang Introduction)
Located in northwestern Sichuan, Mianyang is 98 kilometers from Chengdu. Occupying 20,000 square kilometers, Mianyang's population currently stands at 5.1 million with an urban population of 660,000. In September 2000, Li Lanqing, Vice Minister of the State Council, paid a visit and decided Mianyang should be developed into a science and technological city.Fuleshan situated in the Mianyang city pro- per,the very place where Liu Bei and Liu Zhang met. It is now a scenic and fun-filled tourist attraction with gardens trbuilt and renovated to high light the annals and legends relating to the Three Kingdoms. Various structures, hundreds of stone steles, numerous murals and relief sculptures depicting stories about. Three Kingdoms and the T.K. theater (Sichuan opera) presented every now and then have made Fuleshan an excellent destination to keep track of the T.K.ruins. Both the sightseeing and the voluble talks of a tour guide will surely enable visitors to thoroughly enjoy the scenery and the atmosphere there.
Xishan scenic spot in Mianyang is another attraction where the Shrine/Tomb of Jiang Wan, Shu minister of war, and the reconstructed pavilion of Ziyun (west Shui) are merged with luxuriant trees and splendid halls.Beside it is the Yulu Quan (girl attendant to fairies fountain) and Taoist rock sculptures etc..
Located at the Nanba town where the cities of Jiangyou and Pingwu share a common boundary ,Jiangyou Pass was the first mountain pass seized by Deng Ai who, via Yinping Path, invaded and finished off the State of Shu, Ma Miao, a general of the defending troops, surrendered and his wife committed suicide for the country.
Apart from the T.K. ruins, there are a number of natural sceneries and places of interests for those who make an excursion to Mian-yang city and its subordinate counties; there are in Jiangyou the former residence of Li Bai, the great poet of Tang Dynasty, Dutuanshan landscapes- Three Peaks Stand Towering, Bailong Gong (white dragon palace) the karst topography with an infinite variety of fantastic phenomena. And in Zitong stands the ancestral temple of Emperor Wenchang (Qiqushan Grand Temple), time-honoured, magnificent and relics-filled.
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