Pínglì

Pingli lies among the mountains south of the Han River, close to the approaches to Sichuan and Huguang. Local tradition tells that the goddess Nüwa gathered stones from these mountains to repair the sky. A temple on Mount Nüwa honoured her, and a Ming inscription describing the county seat praised its surrounding streams and wooded hills. The magistrate Gu Feng restored the temple in 1736; its halls and many rooms made it one of the district's largest religious buildings.