Xīndī

Xīndī stands on the northern bank of the Yangtze in the lake country of the Jianghan Plain. Its name, “new dyke,” recalls a long embankment built at Máojiāngkǒu in 1524 after floods had broken the older works. A riverside town grew near the junction of the Yangtze and inland waterways, among fields and lakes exposed to seasonal floods.