About this place

Songpan is a county in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. since the ancient time, Songpan has been the gateway to Chengdu Plain. the county is 2849.5 meters above sea level, 335 km from the provincial capital of Chengdu.
The wall in the small city was built in the year of 1379.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Tibetan king Songzanganbu asked the Tang Emperer to marry the most beautiful girl of the country, the Emperer Taizong sent him Wen Prince Wencheng. when they went back from Changan to Tibet, they passed here.