Baidi City or White Emperor City is not a real city, but a mini city with some temples and gates on top of Baidi Hill in Fengjie County, located at the entrance of the Qutang Gorge and 8 km from Fengjie County seat. 

It is the starting point of Three Gorges, many historic sites and stories about three Kingdoms have evolved from here. In the city, there are poems, carvings, and cultural relics of the Sui, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.  Li Po, a great poet in Tang Dynasty had a very famous poem about the city:


THROUGH THE YANGZI GORGES 

From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn
To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles,
Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me 
To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.