Wūjiāng

Wujiang lies on the northern bank of the Yangtze, west of Nanjing. Tradition associates it with the last stand of Xiang Yu, the defeated king of Chu. Pursued after the battle of Gaixia in 202 BC, he reached Wujiang, where a ferryman offered to carry him across the river. Xiang Yu refused to return to Jiangdong in defeat and died on its bank. The story made this crossing a place remembered in poems and historical accounts for centuries.