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Giant Goose Pagoda must have been an amazing sight for people seeing it for the first time.

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Yep, and the views from the top must have been truly spectacular. We know from all the poems that ancient Chinese people loved climbing mountains and looking out over the world. Here was a manmade version of exactly that experience. Worth writing home about!

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An other excellent find. He uses "zhong" in the 4th to last line.

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That is right, zhong meaning middle. Here it's part of the place name "Guanzhong": the place in the middle of the mountain passes. It's the Shaanxi river plain, the heartland of the Tang empire.

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I know, I read a little bit of Chinese, but it points to the idea that there are different connections in Chinese.

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