Puyang 濮阳Púyáng

About Puyang

Puyang, on the north bank of the Yellow River where Henan meets Hebei and Shandong, became a city in 1983 after the Zhongyuan Oilfield struck oil in 1975. In 1987 a grave at Xishuipo yielded a dragon and a tiger laid out in clam shells some 6,400 years ago, hailed as China's first dragon. Dongbeizhuang village has passed down acrobatics for more than 500 years, and about 1.5 km of rammed-earth wall still stands at Qicheng, a town of the Spring and Autumn period.

Listed sites in Puyang

10 sites in Puyang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Cangjie Mausoleum, Nanle 仓颉陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A round earth mound 3 m high at Shiguan village, honoured as the grave of Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, with Ming-dynasty stone figures, lions, columns and a stone gateway in front and a Cangjie temple beside it.
• Dongbeizhuang Acrobatics Culture Park 东北庄杂技文化园区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A park in Dongbeizhuang, a village whose acrobatic tradition the national intangible-heritage list dates to the late Yuan or early Ming dynasty, more than 500 years ago, with troupes of the Liu, Qiao and Li families.
• Former Hebei–Shandong–Henan Border Region Base, Danguai 单拐革命旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Danguai, a village in Qingfeng County where the Communist Party's Hebei–Shandong–Henan sub-bureau and military region headquarters moved in September 1944; Deng Xiaoping, then acting head of the North China Bureau, worked here for three months in 1945.
• Nanle Confucian Temple 南乐文庙 4A scenic area · on the map
  The Confucian temple of Nanle County town on South Street, a provincially protected monument whose surviving Qing buildings are the main Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Shrine to Confucius's ancestors.
• Pushang Park 濮上园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large park and leisure resort around a lake on the west side of Puyang city, used for strolls, seasonal lantern fairs and family outings.
• Pushui Town 濮水小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A recently built leisure quarter in Puyang County town with pavilions and towers in traditional style, food stalls, shops and evening entertainment.
• Qicheng Ruins Park 戚城遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A heritage park in Puyang city on the site of Qi, a Spring and Autumn town of the state of Wey where, according to the Chunqiu and Zuozhuan, the feudal lords met seven times; some place the death of Confucius's disciple Zilu here in 480 BC.
• Huiluan Stele 回銮碑 National heritage site · on the map
  A Northern Song stele carved in 1055 by order of Emperor Renzong with the poem 'The Khitans Leave the Border', written in his own hand by Emperor Zhenzong after the Chanyuan peace with the Liao.
• Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army Headquarters Site 晋冀鲁豫野战军指挥部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  Baiyige village, just south of Fan County's new town, is where the Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army under Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping rested during the Civil War and, in late 1946, held a week-long meeting of its regiment-level and senior officers.
• Tangwu Gong Stele 唐兀公碑 National heritage site · on the map
  A Yuan-dynasty stele of 1356 shaped like a small roofed building: a square pillar inscribed on all four sides in clerical script under a carved stone roof with a lotus finial.

On the map

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Learn more

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