The Chained Well of Beixinqiao

Inside Dongzhimen in Beijing sits an old well at Beixinqiao, an iron chain dropping into the dark — no one knows how deep. The elders say it seals a "sea eye," and on the chain's far end is bound a rogue dragon. The Ming strategist Yao Guangxiao chained it here, saying "come out when Beixinqiao is o……