(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on September 15, 2014.)
| The ancient Hongshan Pagoda (洪山宝塔) stands on the mountain behind Baotong Temple (宝通寺), Wuhan, Hubei (湖北, 武汉市) |
August 4, 2012 - After lunch in Guiyuan Temple's vegetarian dining hall, I boarded a local bus and waved out the window as I passed Wuhan's famed Yellow Crane Tower. Originally built in 232 CE, it is now a 1985 reconstruction a kilometer away from the original site.