Site of the Bronze Bird Terrace, Ye City, Linzhang, Hebei 河北临漳邺城铜雀台遗址
The Bronze Bird Terrace lies in the northwest of the Ye city site. It was one of the three terraces, the Bronze Bird, Golden Phoenix and Ice Well, that Cao Cao built against the northwest city wall of Ye. Each carried over a hundred rooms and the terraces were joined by covered passages; only traces of the rammed-earth bases remain. Liang Sicheng uses the three terraces to describe the building of Cao Wei Ye. Du Mu’s poem “Red Cliff” refers to it: “Had the east wind not favoured Zhou Yu, the two Qiao sisters would be locked deep in spring in the Bronze Sparrow Terrace.”
