The Road to Shu Is Hard
An opening cry sets the terms — the way into Sichuan is harder than climbing to the blue sky — and the ascent follows: peaks that turn back the sun's chariot, a plank causeway hooked into cliff faces, gibbons that give up the climb, a cuckoo calling on an empty mountain. Beyond the passes wait garrisons that may turn bandit. Written to an inherited Music Bureau title, and the work that reportedly won its author the name Banished Immortal.
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