Qintai Road
Brick pedestrian street carved with Han dynasty scenes, named for a poet's qin and the heiress who eloped for it.
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This guide to Qintai Road in Chengdu tells the story of Zhuo Wenjun, a wealthy widow kept behind her father's walls in Chengdu, and the penniless poet Sima Xiangru, who played a qin at a family banquet aimed squarely at the screen where she sat listening. It follows how she slipped out that same night to marry him, how her furious father cut her off, and how the couple opened a wine shop on this very street, with Wenjun pouring drinks and Sima washing cups in full view of the neighbors. Years later, grown famous at court, Sima wrote home hinting he wanted a concubine.
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