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Tieling 铁岭Tiělǐng
Farm and coal country on the Liao plain, with a steam locomotive museum
About Tieling
Tieling covers farmland and coalfields on the northern Liao River plain, between Shenyang and the Jilin border, and has few big sights. At Diaobingshan, the Tiemei Steam Locomotive Museum keeps 21 steam locomotives, and in Kaiyuan's old town stands the 13-tier brick Chongshou Temple Pagoda, begun in the late Liao and finished in the early Jin. In the city, Yingang Academy, founded in 1658, is where the young Zhou Enlai studied for about half a year in 1910.
What to eat in Tieling
- Dadianzi mutton soup (大甸子羊汤)
Listed sites in Tieling
5 sites in Tieling are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Chengzishan Mountain Fortress 城子山山城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A large stone-walled mountain fortress on Chengzishan in Liangquan town, which the provincial heritage department dates to the early Tang dynasty and describes as a major city of the late Goguryeo kingdom; the national list gives Tang to Liao–Jin. - Lotus Lake Wetland, Tieling 铁岭莲花湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
An urban wetland park of about 1,040 ha around Lotus Lake in Tieling's Fanhe New District, made up of constructed wetlands, a lake with a bird island, a lotus-variety garden, a hill and a children's park. - Tiemei Steam Locomotive Museum, Diaobingshan 铁煤蒸汽机车博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A railway museum and tourist site on the Tiefa coal railway at Xiaoming town in Diaobingshan, where a depot keeps 21 steam locomotives of several types that the provincial tourism page describes as still able to run. - Chongshou Temple Pagoda, Kaiyuan 开原崇寿寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
An octagonal, 13-tier solid brick pagoda about 46 m high, standing in the grounds of the Chongshou Chan temple in Kaiyuan's old town, begun in the late Liao dynasty and finished in the early Jin. - Yingang Academy 银冈书院 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-period academy founded in 1658 by Hao Yu, a scholar exiled to Tieling, which later became a modern school; the compound has a gate, a two-courtyard layout with a lecture hall and a shrine to Hao Yu at the rear.
On the map
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