Atlas of China
Lingao 临高Língāo
A fishing coast with its own language, songs and roast suckling pig
- Type
- Countyadministered directly by Hainan
- Region
- Hainan
- Listed sites
- 11 rated 4A · 1 national heritage
About Lingao
Lingao, a county governed directly by the province, is a farming and fishing county on Hainan's north-west coast. Most of its people speak Lingao, or Be, a Kra–Dai language rather than a Chinese dialect, and the Lilimei fishermen's songs and the local puppet theatre are listed intangible heritage. On Lingao Cape at the northern tip stand a Qing-period lighthouse, listed nationally in 2013, and Hainan Liberation Park, which marks the landing of People's Liberation Army troops on 17 April 1950.
What to eat in Lingao
- Lingao roast suckling pig (临高烤乳猪)
Listed sites in Lingao
1 site in Lingao is on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Hainan Liberation Park and Lingao Cape Lighthouse 海南解放公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial park on Lingao Cape, the headland on Hainan's north-west coast where troops of the People's Liberation Army's 40th Army landed in the early hours of 17 April 1950, in the crossing of the Qiongzhou Strait that brought Hainan Island under PRC control.
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