Atlas of China
Siping 四平Sìpíng
Smoked-meat pancakes, Manchu heritage and a railway town fought over in 1946–48
About Siping
Siping grew up as a railway junction on the plain between Changchun and Shenyang, and in the civil war of 1946–48 the city was fought over in four battles, the subject of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall. South-east of the city, Yehe Nara City is a 1990s reconstruction in the homeland of the Yehe clan, from whose Nara line Empress Dowager Cixi descended. Yitong, Jilin's only Manchu autonomous county, has a museum of Manchu life.
What to eat in Siping
- Li Liangui smoked-meat pancake (李连贵熏肉大饼)
Listed sites in Siping
4 sites in Siping are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Siping Campaign Memorial Hall 四平战役纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum in Hero Square in central Siping about the four battles fought for the city between March 1946 and March 1948, when Communist-led and Nationalist forces fought over this railway junction during the Chinese Civil War. - Yehe Nara City 叶赫那拉城 4A scenic area · on the map
A Manchu-style walled complex rebuilt in 1994–95 on a hill beside Zhuanshan Lake, in the homeland of the Yehe tribe, from whose Nara clan Empress Dowager Cixi's family descended. - Yimashu Forest Park 一马树森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A provincial forest park on the sandy edge of the Horqin grassland near Shuangliao, planted largely with pines that foresters first trialled on the sands some forty years ago. - Yitong Manchu Museum 伊通满族博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A county museum of Manchu history and folk culture in Yitong Manchu Autonomous County, recognised as the Yitong branch of the China Ethnic Museum.
On the map
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