Relocate


Zhang Fei, the military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period is a major character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There was a very old temple on the hillside across the Yangtze River  in Chongqing dedicated to him which was built around the Song dynasty which unfortunately was inundated in 2006 by the Three Gorges Dam. The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam; the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity; whose construction resulted in the submergence of many settlements and archaeological sites. I was rather skeptical when I read that the Zhang Fei Temple was relocated in its entirety until I came across this video clip on a fake Paris that has been constructed in China.

Just watch this!


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