Chengdu (1) Culture and History

We flew from Xining to Chengdu in Sichuan province. By comparison, Chengdu is a bustling modern metropolis complete with traffic chaos, an underground mass rapid transit under construction and of course pollution.

But Chengdu prides itself as an important centre in the history and literature of China. Our first stop was the shrine to Zhu Ge Liang, a main protagonist of the Three Kingdoms period.



Of course, conveniently located next to it was a new old-style shopping street.


The next stop was the beautiful garden set up in memory of the Tang poet Du Fu.