Site of Liyi City

Site of Liyi City

The Site of Liyi City is a cultural relic protection unit of Sichuan Province.

The Site of Liyi City is located on the eastern bank of the Qu River in Hongxi Village, Tuxi Town, Qu County, covering an area of 168,000 square meters.

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, it served both as a city site and an ancient battlefield site. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it continued to function as a fortress and an ancient city site. In the Qing Dynasty, the Sanjiao Temple was built on it, turning the site into a religious place integrating Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. From the Song to the Qing dynasties, the Site of Liyi City served as a refuge for the people of Qu County during times of war, maintaining its significance over a long period and preserving abundant historical information. It is an important site for studying the politics, military, warfare, and religion of northeastern Sichuan. Especially notable is its role in resisting Yuan forces for twenty years during the late Southern Song Dynasty, making it another key historical site for studying the transition from the Song to the Yuan Dynasty, after Hechuan's Fishing City. The site still contains remnants such as the mountain-climbing city walls from the Song Dynasty, fragments of the Song-era "Map Stele," the ruins of the Qing Dynasty’s Sanjiao Temple, and the “Stone Tablet Inscription for the Reconstruction of Sanjiao Temple,” among other relics from various periods. In 1986, it was designated as one of the first county-level cultural relic protection units by the Qu County People's Government, and in 2001, it was listed among the first municipal-level key cultural relic protection units by the Dazhou Municipal People's Government.

Protected Area: Bounded by the city walls and cliffs around Liyi City, covering an area of 16.8 hectares.