白帝

Báidì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Baidi, ancient walled town above the Yangtze at Fengjie in Chongqing
2 the White Emperor, god of the west and of autumn in Chinese myth
3 Baidi, Du Fu's poem of a storm at Baidi City

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

李白在白帝听说自己被赦免了，就坐船回到了江陵。

Lǐ Bái zài Báidì tīngshuō zìjǐ bèi shèmiǎn le, jiù zuò chuán huídào le Jiānglíng.

At Baidi Li Bai heard that he had been pardoned, and sailed back down to Jiangling.

HSK 7-9

古人认为白帝掌管西方和秋天。

Gǔrén rènwéi Báidì zhǎngguǎn xīfāng hé qiūtiān.

The ancients believed the White Emperor ruled over the west and autumn.

Tips

history

The town is named after Gongsun Shu (公孙述), who made himself emperor in Shu in 25 CE and, claiming a white dragon had risen from a well there, styled himself the White Emperor. The full name of the site is 白帝城.

culture

Du Fu's 《白帝》, written nearby in 766, opens 白帝城中云出门，白帝城下雨翻盆, 'in Baidi the clouds pour out of the gates, below Baidi the rain tips from an upturned basin'.

Stroke Order

白 bái

帝 dì