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Wu Hou Shrine
in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in the movie Red Cliff (Chi Bi)Red Cliff (Chi Bi), the most expensive Asian movie ever produced, is now playing in China's theaters. Set in the period of the Three Kingdoms (220-280AD), the film depicts a group of legendary heroes, including Zhuge Liang (181-234AD), the foremost military strategist and statesman of the Shu Kingdom. The exquisite Wu Hou Shrine in Chengdu was built to honor this mythical figure from the classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Shrine is located in the southern corner of Chengdu on Wuhouci Avenue. Besides halls memorializing Zhuge Liang, there are the mausoleums of his liege Liu Bei and other ministers and generals of the Shu Kingdom. Six huge stone tablets are flanked in the yard between the front and the second gates. Four of them date from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), one from the Ming (1368-1644) and one from the Tang (618-906).
