Stone Cattle Road
The Stone Cattle Road (Chinese: 石牛道; pinyin: Shíniú Dào) was an ancient Chinese road over the Qinling Mountains used by the state of Qin to conquer modern Sichuan and Chongqing in 316 BC. == Story == The story goes that King Huiwen of Qin on the Wei River wished to conquer the kingdom of Shu and Ba to the south over the impassable Qinling Mountains in the Sichuan Basin. Knowing of the King of Shu's fondness for treasure, he had his sculptors make five life-sized stone cows with gold tails and hindquarters with gold and placed them where the Shu ambassadors could see them.