Dānléng

Danleng lies west of Meizhou, amid the fields and low hills of the Sichuan Basin. In 1100 the local scholar Yang Su established the Daya Hall to honour the poetry of Du Fu. Stone tablets carried verses written in the calligraphy of Huang Tingjian, who also named the hall and recorded its creation. The building was destroyed in the wars at the end of the Ming, but its association with poetry and calligraphy remained part of the county's cultural memory.