Guìchí

Guichi stands on the south bank of the Yangtze, beneath the hills of southern Anhui. As the seat of Chizhou, it commands a landscape of lakes, streams and hills between the river and the mountains. The Tang poet Du Mu served here and left verses that later generations associated with the local scenery.

In the Ming and Qing, visitors celebrated ten scenic places around the city. Among them were the caves of Qi Mountain, moonlight on Clear Stream and the wine shops of Apricot Blossom Village outside the city gate. Local gazetteers preserved poems about the village, linking its taverns with Du Mu's famous verse about a shepherd boy pointing a traveller toward a place to drink.