Yángshān

Yangshan lies among the mountains of northern Guangdong. In 803 the Tang writer Han Yu was sent here as county magistrate after speaking about drought and hunger near the capital. His time in Yangshan left a lasting local memory: a mountain associated with his reading and teaching came to be called Xianling, the mountain of the worthy magistrate. A later Ming magistrate built a pavilion at a fishing place linked to Han.