Shanghai Travel - The Site of Taihe City is located at the foot

The Site of Taihe City is located at the foot of Xicang Mountain in Taihe Village of Dali City, Yunnan Province. Leaning on Xicang Mountain on the west side and close to the Erhai Lake,Shanghai Travel, the city, strategically located and difficult to access, guarded the strategic passage from Xiaguan to Dali. The city was originally the inhabitation place of the Erhe tribe. In 25th year (737) of the Kaiyuan reign in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the ruler of Mengshezhao, with the support of the Tang regime, defeated the Erhe people, united six zhaos (zhao is a minority group in ancient southwest China), and built the Nanzhao State with the city as its first capital. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡The city was built on a large scale. As described in Tang Fanchuo's Man Book, roads in the Taihe City were built with stones and were more than one zhang (1 zhang = 3.3 m) high,China Pictures, stretching several li (1 li = 500 m). The only sites left were two tampered-earth walls. The north wall of 3,225 meters long stretched from the mountainside of the Fuding Peak northeastward to the shore of the Erhai Lake. The south wall of 3,350 meters long stretched from the foot of the Wuzhi Peak eastward to the village on the shore of the Erhai Lake. The remains of the city wall were 4-5 meters wide, and 2-4 meters high. The whole city covered an area of about 3 square kilometers. With surrounding area about 0.3 meters higher than inside ground, the Fuding Temple was built on the Fuding Peak. The base was a 4-meter-thick earth platform, covering an area of nearly 3,600 square meters. It is said that a summer resort and a solid city of the Nanzhao State were constructed here.