Méizhōu

Meizhou lies on the Min River plain south of Chengdu. It was the home of the Song writers Su Xun and his sons Su Shi and Su Zhe, known together as the Three Sus. Their essays and poetry made the family one of the most celebrated in Chinese letters, and their old home became a place of remembrance. During the Yuan period the family residence was turned into a shrine. It was destroyed in the warfare at the end of the Ming, then rebuilt on the same site in 1665 under the Qing. The shrine preserved the memory of the three writers in the city where their family had lived.