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Zaozhuang 枣庄Zǎozhuāng
A rebuilt canal town, the walls of Xue and a tribute to the philosopher Mozi
About Zaozhuang
Zaozhuang grew around a coal company with roots in 1878, but its best-known place is Taierzhuang Ancient Town, a Grand Canal town badly damaged in the 1938 battle and rebuilt between 2009 and 2013. In Tengzhou lie the ruined walls of Xue, an Eastern Zhou state later held as a fief by Lord Mengchang, and the Mozi Science and Technology Culture City, honouring the philosopher said to have been born here. Guanshi Pomegranate Garden and Weishan Lake Red Lotus Wetland add a gentler side.
What to eat in Zaozhuang
- Zaozhuang spicy chicken (枣庄辣子鸡)
- Tengzhou vegetable pancakes (滕州菜煎饼)
Listed sites in Zaozhuang
16 sites in Zaozhuang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Taierzhuang Ancient Town 台儿庄古城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Taierzhuang is a Grand Canal port town that was badly damaged in the 1938 battle and rebuilt in old canal-town style between 2009 and 2013, covering about 2 km². - Baodugu National Forest Park 抱犊崮国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Baodugu is a flat-topped crag about 584 m high and the centre of a national forest park in Shanting District. - Guanshi Pomegranate Garden 冠世榴园 4A scenic area · on the map
Guanshi Liuyuan is a large pomegranate orchard in the hills of Yicheng District, which local records trace back to the Western Han. - Moon Bay Wetland Park (Yueliangwan) 月亮湾湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Moon Bay is a lakeside national wetland park in Chengtou town, Shanting District, where the town has added a water-screen film show and other evening attractions. - Mozi Science and Technology Culture City 墨子科技文化城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
This district in central Tengzhou is organised around the Longquan Pagoda, an octagonal nine-storey brick-and-stone pagoda about 43 m high that the national heritage list dates to the Ming dynasty. - Railway Guerrillas Scenic Area 铁道游击队景区 4A scenic area · on the map
This is a memorial park and film-set complex on a hill in Xuecheng District, dedicated to the Railway Guerrillas, a local armed unit that fought Japanese forces on the railways around Zaozhuang. - Taierzhuang Battle Memorial Hall 台儿庄大战纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
This museum opened in 1993 to commemorate the Battle of Taierzhuang of March–April 1938, which Chinese accounts describe as the first major Chinese victory over Japanese forces in the war. - Weishan Lake Red Lotus Wetland 微山湖红荷湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
This wetland on the shore of Weishan Lake, in Tengzhou's Binhu town, is known for wild red lotus and reed beds; Tengzhou's government puts the reeds at about 30 km² and calls it a national wetland park. - Xiantanshan Hot Spring Town 仙坛山温泉小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Xiantanshan Hot Spring Town is a hot-spring resort in the wooded hills of Xiwangzhuang town, on the south-eastern edge of Zaozhuang. - Xiong'er Mountain Geopark 熊耳山国家地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
This national geopark in Beizhuang town, Shanting District, centres on a limestone mesa 509 m high, one of the flat-topped crags typical of southern Shandong. - Yingtai Eco Hot Spring Resort 盈泰生态温泉度假村 4A scenic area · on the map
Yingtai is a hot-spring resort in Hongxu town, south of Tengzhou city, which the Zaozhuang tourism authorities list among the city's winter hot-spring destinations. - Yiyun Stone Village 翼云石头部落 4A scenic area · on the map
Yiyun Stone Village is a hillside village of stone-slab houses in Shancheng subdistrict, Shanting District, restored in the old style after the original Xinglongzhuang village was relocated. - Biyang Ancient City Site 偪阳故城 National heritage site · on the map
These are the earthen walls of Biyang, a small Zhou-period state that a coalition of rival states destroyed in 563 BC. - Xue State Ancient City 薛国故城 National heritage site · on the map
The Xue ancient city was the capital of the state of Xue, which local accounts date from the Xia dynasty to the Warring States and where Lord Mengchang of Qi was later enfeoffed. - Zhongchenhao Kiln Site 中陈郝窑址 National heritage site · on the map
Zhongchenhao is a village in Zouwu town, Xuecheng District, where a long-running pottery kiln site is protected as a national heritage unit; the list dates the kilns from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Qing. - Zhongxing Coal Mining Company Site 中兴煤矿公司旧址 National heritage site · on the map
This is the former base of the Zhongxing Coal Mining Company in Shizhong District, which the local government says was founded in 1878 and was China's first national joint-stock company.
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