Baidicheng

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Baidi or Baidicheng (Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 白帝城; 8 km east of present day Fengjie County, Chongqing) was an ancient city on the northern shore of the Yangtze River in China. The name of the city literally means City of the White Emperor. It is said that the area was once surrounded with a white mist, giving it a rather mysterious yet serene look, much like what an emperor should be like. It has also been said that someone saw a white dragon, the symbol of the Emperor come out there, and the warlord Gongsun Shu thought this was a fortuitous sign, and declared himself Emperor of Chengja. He founded the city and called himself the White Emperor. The city is now an islet due to the Three gorges dam damming projects and easily accessible by boat from Chongqing.

Baidi is also known as the City of Poems because so many poets, including the famous Li Bai, wrote about it. Some, like Du Fu, even resided there for a while. Baidicheng's coordinate is 31.045126 north, 109.545877 east.

Baidi was also where Liu Bei, first emperor of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms era, died.

In 2006, the Chinese government established Baidi city as a National Heritage site.