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Suzhou 宿州Sùzhōu
Ringing stones, pear blossom and a Sui-dynasty canal that still holds water
About Suzhou
Suzhou sits on the flat northern edge of Anhui, where the province meets Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan. In Si County a stretch of the Sui-dynasty Grand Canal still holds water, and part of it is on the World Heritage list. Lingbi is known for its ringing ornamental stones, Dangshan for orchards that fill with pear blossom each spring, and Yongqiao for its circus tradition; the American novelist Pearl S. Buck lived in the town from 1917 and drew on the region for The Good Earth.
What to eat in Suzhou
- Fuliji chicken (符离集烧鸡)
Listed sites in Suzhou
8 sites in Suzhou are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Caiwa Huaihai Campaign Headquarters Site 蔡洼淮海战役旧址 4A scenic area · on the map
The village of Caiwa in Xiao county, headquarters of the East China Field Army during the Huaihai campaign of 1948–49, one of the decisive battles of the Chinese Civil War. - Dangshan Pear Tree King Scenic Area 砀山梨树王 4A scenic area · on the map
Old pear orchards around Liangli village in Dangshan, the county that calls itself China's pear capital and the home of the Dangshan Su pear, centred on an ancient tree known as the 'Pear Tree King'. - Huangcangyu National Forest Park 皇藏峪 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded valley in the low limestone hills of Xiao county, named 'the valley where the emperor hid' after the tradition that Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, sheltered here before his rise. - Lingbi Modern Agriculture Expo Park 灵璧现代农业博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A showcase farm park at the core of the Lingbi Sanhe provincial modern-agriculture demonstration zone, built around four large glasshouses: an agricultural science hall, an 'urban forest' hall, a desert-plant hall and a hall of city gardens and vegetable plots. - Lingbi Stone Culture Park 灵璧奇石文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped park on the south-western side of Lingbi town, by the old Bian river, devoted to Lingbi stone, the ringing, intricately shaped limestone counted among China's four famous ornamental stones and used since antiquity for chime stones. - New Bian River Scenic Area 新汴河 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped riverside park along the New Bian River, a canal dug in the late 1960s for flood relief and irrigation, roughly parallel to the long-silted Bian canal of the Sui and Tang, where it passes the north of Suzhou city. - Suzhou Museum (Anhui) 宿州市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city museum of Suzhou in northern Anhui, opened in 2010 in a Han-style building on a raised platform and rated a national first-grade museum in 2020. - Grand Canal, Sixian Section 隋唐大运河泗县段 National heritage site · on the map
The only stretch of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal in Anhui that still carries water: 28 km of the Tongji Canal, dug in 605 to join the Yellow River to the Huai, winds through Si county, and the 5.8 km section north-east of the county town is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site inscribed in 2014.
On the map
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