Tánghé

The town now called Tanghe grew beside the river of the same name, whose waters eventually reach the Han near Xiangyang. It was the seat of Tangzhou from the late Tang period, and its Buddhist Sīzhou Pagoda was built in 1095 at the Bodhi Temple. After the upheavals of the Yuan's final years, the Ming reduced Tangzhou to a county known as Tang. The pagoda was repaired in 1377 and continued to stand above the town as a landmark through later centuries.