Wuhan to Jingzhou

Wuhan has a population of around 10 million.  The Yangzi River runs through the centre of Wuhan and is known as the land of 166 lakes.  Flying into Wuhan that is what you could see was a mass of little waterholes.  This is a farming (brown rice, fish - crab and grass fish, cotton and lotus) and industrial area.

Jingzhou has a population of about 4 million, a small town feeling with a lot of ancient history.  The farmland in the area have a lot of ancient burial sites some of the largest Chu tombs ever discovered.

The City Wall - Jingzhou is divided into 3 parts from outside to inside - Water City, Brick City and Earth City, originally designed for military functions.  The moat is the first in line of the protection for the city.  The Brick City or the wall was mainly built with bricks and stones, the gaps between the bricks were filled with a sticky rice substance that hardened with time resembling cement.

The Jingzhou Museum has excavated over 120,000 valuable cultural relics.  These include ancient jade plates, silks, spears, swords, lacquers and bamboo books that have recorded the earliest mathematical works.  The first thing you see when you begin your journey through is one of the earliest and most complete man corpus that remains.