, let us talk about the background first. Isabella Bird, also known as Mrs. Bishop, is a 19th-century British explorer, writer, and photographer. She visited my country’s Yangtze River Valley in 1897. Many precious old photos were taken. Among them, the picture below is Bird's photographic work, because her own annotation is " Yangtze River on the village", so we don't know the specific location of the picture. However, because Bird put this picture after the paragraph describing Yibin in his book "Crossing the Yangtze River", I have always believed that this place should not be far from Yibin.
There is no coincidence and a book. Recently, when looking up relevant information in Yibin, I accidentally saw the following picture drawn by the painter Ma Qi who was born in Xichang in the early Qing Dynasty. According to the author's description, this place is Baisha Bay, Yibin. When I first saw this picture, I thought of Bird's picture, and I always felt that the two were at the same place.
Frankly speaking, the similarity between the two pictures of Chinese painting and the photo is not particularly high, but you should know that realism itself is not the strong point of Chinese painting. Here, I can also provide a reference case. The following is a picture of Banbian Temple and Banbian Temple in Yibin drawn by Ma Qi. Through this, I believe many friends will draw their own judgments on the degree of realism.
Finally, it must be noted that apart from the above information, I currently do not have any textual information to refer to, and I almost know nothing about Baishawan in Yibin. Therefore, the above information is just a bold conjecture that I personally made based on the old photos. I very much hope that friends can verify, falsify, or discuss it together.
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