Dàyì

Dayi lies west of the Chengdu plain, where fields meet the wooded foothills of the mountains. On Wuzhong Mountain stands the site of Kaihua Temple, a Buddhist sanctuary surrounded by mist and forest. The temple flourished under the Ming, when many smaller religious houses occupied the mountain. A Ming inscription records an imperial grant of the temple's name in 1443, preserving the memory of its place in the religious life of the district.