Xùnxiàn

Xun County stands beside the Wei River, overlooked by the isolated height of Dapi Mountain. The mountain’s great stone Buddha drew worshippers, while the river carried traffic past the county town. In 1499 the young scholar Wang Yangming came here escorting an official’s coffin and stayed to teach and write. A wooden bridge across the Wei was built in 1508 and rebuilt in stone in 1565.