Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (2000)

Situated in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Mount Qingcheng is the birthplace of Taoism in China and one of the Founder Mountain Palaces of the Master Taoism, and has now become one of the main activity regions of the Chuan Chen Tao sect of Taoism, over 20 Taoist palaces and temples with their architectural styles being of characteristic features of China’s Taoist culture and West Sichuan civilian residences.

Constructed by Li Bing, the Governor of Qin’s Sichuan Prefecture in BC 256 during the Warring State Period, the Dujiangyan Irrigation System is composed of the three major carcass projects of the Fish-mouth Dividing Dam, Sand-flying Weir Floodway and Treasure Bottle Water Inlet, to divert the water from Minjiang River to West Sichuan Plain for irrigating the farm land there; and the system still plays a tremendous role, being one of the earliest water-conservancy irrigation projects existing now in our country. Around the system there are also Two-King, Dragon, Billow, Lidui Project and other historic relics. In 2000, they were included in the “World Cultural Heritage List”. Pacifying Bridge Subduing Taoist Temple