Baidicheng, also called Baidi Fortress or White Emperor City, is an ancient fortress and temple complex on a hill on the northern shore of the Yangtze River, 5 miles (8 km) east of Fengjie County's seat in Chongqing. The article says the warlord Gongsun Shu founded the city after seeing a white dragon and declared himself Emperor of Chengjia, though it flags the source for that claim as missing. It gives no architect, construction dates, style, materials or dimensions.
Li Bai and other poets wrote about the site, nicknamed City of Poems. Liu Bei, first emperor of Shu Han, is said to have died at Baidi, though Records of the Three Kingdoms places his death at Yong'angong.
The Three Gorges Dam raised water levels and left the complex on an island linked to the bank by a bridge.
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