There is a mountain in the southwest of Phoenix, which looks like a phoenix spreading its wings and flying, hence the name of the ancient city. The ancient city is located in the southwest of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, with a total area of 1.700 square kilometers and a population of 440,000. It is a county where ethnic minorities are mainly Miao and Tujia. In the book Border Town, there is a passage describing the phoenix: "If you look for it on an old map a hundred years ago, you can find a small spot called Zheng 'an in a very remote corner in northern Guizhou, eastern Sichuan and western Hunan. Like other small spots, there should actually be a city where three or five thousand people live ... "This is.

Excellent people, excellent people. Shen Congwen, a great literary master, wrote a song "Border Town", which described the homeland involved in his soul and dreams as picturesque, dreamy and lyrical, and also pushed this quiet and profound town to the whole world. Because Shen Congwen is a phoenix, many people think that Border Town is a phoenix in Hunan, but it is not. Look at the first sentence of Border Town: "From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road going east, near the border of Xiangxi. In a small mountain town called Tea Cave, there is a stream. " Obviously, the Border Town written by Shen Congwen is called Tea Cave. Looking through the map of western Hunan, you will find that there is no "tea cave" in Fenghuang County. When you look to the northern part of Fenghuang County, Huayuan County at the junction of Hunan, Wudu (now Chongqing) and Guizhou, you will find the "border town" here. In other words, the prototype of "Border Town" is Chadong Town, Huayuan County, Hunan Province, but this town was renamed as "Border Town" in 2008 and still marked as "Tea City" on the previously published map. )