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Extract from the Shigu and Weixi Travel Guides: Seventy kilometres west of Lijiang,
SHIGU
(Stone Drum) is a small place named after a tablet raised here in the eighteenth century by one of Lijiang's Mu clan to mark a particularly bloody victory over Han Chinese armies. Broad and not too rough, the
Yangzi River
makes its first major bend here, deflected sharply to the northeast towards Tiger Leaping Gorge, having flowed uninterrupted in a thousand-kilometre arc from its source away on the Tibet-Qinghai border. Part of the Red Army chose this point to ford the Yangzi during the Long March in April 1936, breaking through Nationalist lines under the guidance of the spi...
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