Splendors of the cliff tombs of Jiangkou

Peng still influences residents of Pengshan, where there are about 10 centenarians, Xia says.

The mountain is also called the Xiannyu (fairy) Mountain because of Peng's daughter San E'er who was single all her life so she could accompany her father. It is a mountain advocating filial piety, Su says.

Before the outbreak of the pandemic, Peng's descendants from Hong Kong and Guangdong province visited his tomb on the mountain each year, she says.

Pengshan is about half-an-hour's car ride from Meishan, birthplace of Su Dongpo, who was a poet, writer, painter, calligrapher, gastronome, pharmacologist and statesman in the Song Dynasty (960-1279).