However, in 706, he would have a brief downfall -- as he was indicted by the censor Xiao Zhizhong of having hidden a parent's death to avoid serving a mourning period, a severe breach of the Confucian requirements for filial piety -- and was demoted to be the prefect of Shen Prefecture (申州, roughly modern Xinyang, Henan).
Xinyang |
In the second half of 1959, I took a long-distance bus from Xinyang to Luoshan and Gushi.
Built in 1958, the air base is located in the town of Minggang north of Xinyang.