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Meishan is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan province of China. Meishan is in the southwest of Sichuan Basin. Situated centrally in Sichuan Province and southeast of the Chengdu Plain, Meishan is halfway on the golden tourist route of Chengdu to Leshan. It is also bordered by Ziyang on the east and Yaan in the west. An administrative organization was first established in Meishan in the year 496 during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It was known then as Meishou, but today it is well known by all Chinese as the hometown of Su Dongpo and his two sons, all of whom are great poets of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). he Minjiang and Qingyi rivers flow through Meishan, creating broad alluvial plains along them. Most of its western and eastern regions geographically consist of low mountainous areas.