Atlas of China
Huaibei 淮北Huáiběi
Coal-town teahouses and an excavated stretch of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal
About Huaibei
Huaibei is a coal city on the north Anhui plain where the province meets Jiangsu and Henan, and its one county, Suixi, distils the well-known Kouzi liquor. The Liuzi Grand Canal Site, an excavated stretch of the Sui–Tang Tongji Canal, is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site. In Linhuan, an old town that keeps stretches of its ancient wall, some twenty teahouses brew 'stick tea' from tea stalks and local spring water, a custom said to be over 600 years old.
What to eat in Huaibei
- Kouzi liquor (口子窖)
- Linhuan stick tea (临涣棒棒茶)
- Linhuan fermented-tofu pork (临涣培乳肉)
Listed sites in Huaibei
7 sites in Huaibei are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Nanhu Park 南湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Nanhu (South Lake) is a lake and wetland park in Huaibei's Lieshan district, created on land that subsided above coal workings and part of the chain of reclaimed lakes that now runs through the city. - Sijiliuyuan Pomegranate Park 四季榴园 4A scenic area · on the map
Sijiliuyuan is a rural scenic area in the hills of Lieshan district, built around more than 1,000 mu of pomegranate orchards surviving from the Ming and Qing, in an area where pomegranates have been grown since at least the Song and Yuan. - Suixi Ancient Town 濉溪古城 4A scenic area · on the map
Suixi Ancient Town is a leisure district in Suixi county town, home of the Kouzi liquor brand, that joins Qianlong Lake park to an old-style shopping quarter. - Xiangshan Park 相山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Xiangshan Park covers the southern slopes of Xiangshan, a hill on the northern edge of central Huaibei that was one of the eight views of old Suzhou prefecture. - Huaihai Campaign General Front Committee Site (Wenchang Palace) 临涣文昌宫 National heritage site · on the map
Wenchang Palace in Linhuan, a temple to the god of literature founded under the Tang and later used as an academy and a school, became the forward headquarters of the Communist Central Plains Field Army on 10 November 1948, during the Huaihai Campaign. - Linhuan Ancient City Walls 临涣古城墙 National heritage site · on the map
Linhuan, the ancient town of Zhi, is still ringed by rammed-earth walls first raised by the state of Song in the late Warring States period, nearly square in plan and shaded by tall trees. - Liuzi Grand Canal Site 柳孜运河遗址 National heritage site
Liuzi village lies on the Tongji Canal section of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal, and excavations here in 1999 and 2012–13 confirmed the canal's route and uncovered Tang boats, Song stone bridge piers and pottery from more than 20 kilns.
On the map
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