Línjiāng

Linjiang, as its name suggests, stood beside the Yangtze. It was the county seat of Zhongzhou, a river town between Fuzhou and the Three Gorges. The Tang poet Bai Juyi served as prefect here and wrote of his life by the river, leaving a literary memory of a distant post in the mountains of Sichuan. In 1734 the Qing raised Zhongzhou to a directly administered prefecture, overseeing several neighbouring counties.