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Dingwang Terrace is deep in a small lane on the south side of Liuzheng Street and was a place that literati of successive dynasties had to visit after arriving in Changsha. For more than two thousand years, it has been praised by men of letters, with poems, essays, songs, and fu sung without end, so much so that some called the city of Changsha Dingwang City.
Liu Fa, Prince Ding, was the tenth son of Emperor Jing of Han and was known for his "filial piety." After being enfeoffed as prince in Changsha, he transported rice to Chang'an and brought back soil from the capital to pile up and build the "Gazing at Mother Terrace." The Gazing at Mother Terrace later came to be called Dingwang Terrace.
From the autumn of 1912 to the spring of 1913, the young Mao Zedong lodged at the Xiangxiang Examination Hall in Xin'an Lane, Changsha, and walked every day to the Dingwang Terrace Library to read, regardless of wind or rain.
