Baidi or Baidicheng (Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 白帝城; 8 km east of present day Fengjie County, Chongqing) was an ancient city on the northern shore of the Yangtze River in China. The name of the city literally means City of the White Emperor. It is said that the area was once surrounded with a white mist, giving it a rather mysterious yet serene look, much like what an emperor should be like. It has also been said that someone saw a white dragon, the symbol of the Emperor come out there, and the warlord Gongsun Shu thought this was a fortuitous sign, and declared himself Emperor of Chengja. He founded the city and called himself the White Emperor. The city is now an islet due to the Three gorges dam damming projects and easily accessible by boat from Chongqing. Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: 重庆; Traditional Chinese: 重慶; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the Peoples Republic of Chinas four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China. ... Afternoon light on the jagged grey mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Amazon in South America and the Nile in Africa. ... The Three Gorges Dam (Simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; Traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; Hanyu Pinyin: ) spans the Yangtze River (the third longest river in the world) at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China. ...

Baidi is also known as the City of Poems because so many poets, including the famous Li Bai, wrote about it. Some, like Du Fu, even resided there for a while. Li Bai or Li Po (701-762) was a Chinese poet who lived during the Tang Dynasty. ... Du Fu or Tu Fu (712–770) was a prominent Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. ...

Baidi was also where Liu Bei, first emperor of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms era, died. Liu Bei (劉備;161 – 223), courtesy name Xuande(玄徳), was a powerful warlord and the founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms era in ancient China. ... The Kingdom of Shu (蜀 shǔ) (221 – 263) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty. ... The Three Kingdoms in 262, on the eve of the conquest of Shu. ...

Many consider Baidi not to be a real city, but only a collection of temples.