Wutasi - Cishou Temple - Gaoliang River - Liao-Jin Dynasty City Walls

After visiting several lesser-known scenic spots in Beijing, Wutasi is now the Beijing Stone Carving Museum, which resembles the Wutasi in Hohhot and was built during the Ming Dynasty. Inside, there are two huge ginkgo trees, and to the north is the Gaoliang River (Chang River). It was along the Gaoliang River that the Liao army suffered a great defeat at the hands of the Song army led by Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, who personally launched an attack on the Liao. Since then, the Song Dynasty was completely on the defensive against the Liao. Cishou Temple now only has one pagoda left, and it is said that the notorious thief from Beijing and Tianjin, 'Swallow' Li San, often hid there. The ruins of the Liao-Jin Dynasty city walls were discovered by a landscaping company while digging foundations for employee dormitories; it is essentially a city wall and a water gate of the moat (Liangshui River).