Caishiji Yangtze Moon-Reaching Walk
A 4.2 km cliff-edge loop from the park gate to Taibai Tower and out along the Yangtze ledge to Moon-Reaching Point.
“The great Peng flew, shaking the eight corners of the world; in mid-heaven its strength failed.”
「大鹏飞兮振八裔，中天摧兮力不济。」
Caishiji is a limestone headland standing directly over the Yangtze shipping channel, where the river bends and widens beyond reckoning. Li Bai came here broken, exiled and pardoned, and died in the county behind the cliff. Walk the ledge path at dusk: the water keeps moving at the same immense pace it did in 762, and the only thing that has stopped is the poet. The legend that he drowned here reaching for the moon is not really about death—it is about a refusal to stop wanting.
采石矶是一处石灰岩岬角，正对长江主航道，江水在此转折、开阔到难以估量。李白来到这里时已被流放又获赦，身心俱损，最终病逝于矶后的当涂县城。黄昏时走一走临江栈道：江水仍以公元762年那样的体量不停奔流，唯一停下的是诗人。至于他醉后跃江揽月的传说，说的其实不是死亡，而是不肯停止渴望。
Caishiji West Gate采石矶景区西门
WGS-84: 31.6430°N, 118.4665°EEntrance to the cliff park at Dangtu, the county where Li Bai lived out his last two years after the amnesty of 759.
Inscription: 牛渚西江夜，青天无片云。
Taibai Tower太白楼
WGS-84: 31.6480°N, 118.4712°EA memorial tower and hall holding stele inscriptions of Li Bai's verse, built to honour the poet who has been worshipped here since the Tang.
Inscription: 大鹏飞兮振八裔，中天摧兮力不济。
Sanyuan Cave River Ledge Path三元洞沿江栈道
WGS-84: 31.6522°N, 118.4768°EA narrow path cut into the cliff face above the main channel, with only a low rail between the walker and a very large river.
Inscription: 孤帆远影碧空尽，唯见长江天际流。
Moon-Reaching Point揽月台绝壁
WGS-84: 31.6568°N, 118.4815°EThe outermost headland, where folklore sends the drunken poet off the cliff to embrace the moon's reflection. The truth is gentler and the view is enormous.
Inscription: 举杯邀明月，对影成三人。