Lǐ Bái de 《 Chánggān xíng 》 xiě de shì Chánggān yí duì qīngméi-zhúmǎ de fūqī.
Li Bai's 'Song of Changgan' is about a husband and wife from Changgan who were childhood sweethearts.
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culture
Two Tang poems made the name famous: in 李白's 《长干行》 a young wife looks back on growing up there with her husband, and 崔颢's four 《长干曲》 are songs of the river people. 里 in 长干里 means 'lanes; neighbourhood'.
history
干 is read gān here. It is traditionally explained as an old southern word for the strip of land between hills, which is where the long lanes of the quarter ran.
