Miǎnchí

Mianchi lies in the hills between Luoyang and the western passes, south of the Yellow River. It is remembered as the meeting place of the kings of Qin and Zhao in 279 BC, when the Zhao envoy Lin Xiangru stood up to the more powerful Qin court. A mound west of the town became associated with that encounter. In 1594 the magistrate Wang Zhidu built a pavilion on the meeting terrace, and it was repaired again in 1808.