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Dezhou 德州Dézhōu
Famous braised chicken and the tomb of a Sulu king
About Dezhou
Dezhou is a canal and railway town in Shandong's flat north-west, and its braised chicken, a national intangible-heritage craft, spread along the railway lines as station food. The Tomb of the Sultan of Sulu holds a ruler of Sulu, in today's Philippines, who died here in 1417 on his way home from the Ming court; his descendants still tend it. Elsewhere in the prefecture are the Thousand-Year Jujube Forest and Ningjin, whose acrobatics tradition is on China's national intangible heritage list.
What to eat in Dezhou
- Dezhou braised chicken (德州扒鸡)
- Wucheng xuanbing, a pan-baked meat and coriander pie (武城煊饼)
- Ningjin Daliu noodles, long fine wheat noodles (宁津大柳面)
Listed sites in Dezhou
8 sites in Dezhou are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Debai Acrobatics and Cricket Valley, Ningjin 德百杂技蟋蟀谷 4A scenic area · on the map
This is a leisure complex of about 1,000 mu (roughly 67 ha) south of Ningjin town, developed by the Debai group and themed on the county's acrobatics and cricket-keeping traditions. - Debai Hot Spring Resort, Xiajin 德百温泉度假村 4A scenic area · on the map
Debai is a hot-spring hotel complex in Suliuzhuang town, Xiajin County, in the area of the Yellow River Old Course Forest Park. - Dongzi Garden 董子园 4A scenic area · on the map
Dongzi Garden is a riverside memorial park in Dezhou commemorating the Han-dynasty Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu. - Haidao Jinshan Temple, Qingyun 海岛金山寺 4A scenic area · on the map
Haidao Jinshan Temple is a large Buddhist temple complex on the northern edge of Qingyun, rebuilt from 2004 after an older temple that Dezhou's tourism bureau dates to the Sui dynasty was destroyed in the Ming. - Quancheng Ole Fortress Dream World 泉城欧乐堡梦幻世界 4A scenic area · on the map
Dream World is a theme park in Qihe County with zones styled on European and Western themes, such as a Dutch family town, a western town and a castle, dozens of rides including several roller coasters, a horse show, an international circus and fireworks. - Quancheng Ole Fortress Ocean and Polar World 泉城欧乐堡海洋极地世界 4A scenic area · on the map
This is a large indoor aquarium in Qihe County, completed in 2011, with more than ten halls including a tropical rainforest, an undersea tunnel, shark and turtle halls, a polar animal hall, a seal island and a 5D cinema. - Thousand-Year Jujube Forest, Leling 千年枣林景区 4A scenic area · on the map
This rural tourist area in Zhuji town, Leling, is built around old jujube (Chinese date) orchards, with more than a thousand trees that the local government says are over 1,000 years old, a garden of nearly 600 jujube varieties and a 'mother-and-child' tree of more than 700 years. - Tomb of the Sultan of Sulu 苏禄王墓 National heritage site
In 1417 the Eastern King of Sulu, from an old Southeast Asian kingdom in what is now the Philippines, led a delegation of about 340 people to the Ming court and died at Dezhou on the way home, where he was buried; his wife and two sons were later laid beside him.
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