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Binzhou 滨州Bīnzhōu
A castle-like Qing manor and jujube orchards by the lower Yellow River
About Binzhou
Binzhou spreads over both banks of the lower Yellow River, a flat region of farmland and delta. Its main sight is Wei's Manor at Weiji, a castle-like family compound built between 1890 and 1893. Sun Wu Ancient City is built around the local claim that Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, was born here, and Zhanhua is the home of the winter jujube, which has its own eco-tourism area.
What to eat in Binzhou
- Qiaozhuang pan-fried buns (乔庄水煎包)
Listed sites in Binzhou
10 sites in Binzhou are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Dayuzhang Forest Park 打渔张森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Dayuzhang Forest Park is a provincial forest park of wetland, woodland and canals on the south bank of the Yellow River in Qiaozhuang town, Boxing County, centred on the headworks of the Dayuzhang Yellow River irrigation scheme. - Du Shoutian Residence 杜受田故居 4A scenic area · on the map
This is the former home of Du Shoutian, a Qing scholar-official who served as an imperial tutor, in Binbei, north of Binzhou city. - Mada Lake 麻大湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Mada Lake is a freshwater lake and reed wetland south of Boxing county town, about 7 km from east to west and up to 3.5 km wide, which became a national wetland park in 2013. - Puhu Scenic Area, Binzhou 蒲湖风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Puhu is a large lake park on the southern edge of Binzhou, between the Yellow River's main and secondary embankments, planned at about 543 hectares of which 180 had been developed by 2017. - Sun Wu Ancient City 孙武古城 4A scenic area · on the map
Sun Wu Ancient City is the main tourist zone of Huimin County town, which claims the strategist Sun Wu, author of The Art of War, as a native son. - Weiji Ancient Town and Wei's Manor 魏集古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Weiji Ancient Town is a tourist zone in Weiji town, one of Huimin County's Yellow River towns, that links two groups of Ming-Qing-style buildings, Wei's Manor and the Weiji old village, along a new old-style street. - Wudi Ancient City 无棣古城 4A scenic area · on the map
Wudi Ancient City is a walled old town of about 11.5 hectares in the centre of Wudi County, partly original and partly rebuilt in old style since 2010, with a moat and a lotus bay. - Xincheng Tianyuan Eco-tourism Area 鑫诚田园生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Xincheng Tianyuan is a large commercial farm-leisure park in Madian town, Huimin County, planned at about 15,000 mu and built round greenhouses and orchards. - Zhanhua Winter Jujube Eco-tourism Area 沾化冬枣生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
This is a jujube orchard park of about 500 mu in Xiawa town, the original home of the Zhanhua winter jujube, a crisp, apple-sized variety, about 20 km from Zhanhua town. - Zhangbafo Buddha at Xingguo Temple 丈八佛（兴国寺） National heritage site · on the map
Zhangbafo is a standing stone Buddha of the Northern Dynasties, 7.1 m high including its pedestal, which stands in Xingguo Temple in Zhangbafo village, Hubin town; the county dates the carving to the first year of the Tianping era (534).
On the map
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