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Heze 菏泽Hézé
Peony fields, Water Margin outlaws and a famous mutton soup
About Heze
Heze, in the south-west corner of Shandong, was named China's peony capital in 2012, and the Caozhou Peony Garden and the spring peony festival are its great seasonal draw. In Yuncheng, where a local saying claims 72 of the 108 Water Margin outlaws as natives, Water Margin Heroes City is a theme park. Sun Bin Tourist City honours the strategist Sun Bin, and Shan County has the Baishou and Baishi Memorial Arches and a well-known mutton soup.
What to eat in Heze
- Shan County mutton soup (单县羊肉汤)
- Cao County roast beef (曹县烧牛肉)
- Dongming stuffed pig's stomach (东明粉肚)
Listed sites in Heze
13 sites in Heze are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Caozhou Peony Garden 曹州牡丹园 4A scenic area · on the map
Caozhou Peony Garden is a large peony park on the north side of Heze city, described by the city government as holding 1,237 peony varieties and more than 600 herbaceous peony varieties. - Fulong Lake Resort, Shan County 浮龙湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Fulong Lake is a large reservoir-lake resort of about 21 sq km of water in the south-west of Shan County, on the course of the old Yellow River, with a lakeside plaza, a long jetty, islands, a rose garden and a Taoist temple, the Laojun Temple. - Jianshan Scenic Area, Shan County 幵山 4A scenic area · on the map
Jianshan is a lakeside park in the development zone on the east side of Shan County town, laid out around a small hill and Jianshan Lake, with a walking path round the water, boats and a glass bridge. - Jinshan Scenic Area, Juye 金山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Jinshan is a low hill in Hetaoyuan town, about 1.5 km from north to south and rising to 133 m, with karst caves, springs and walking paths; part of it lies in a provincial geopark. - Shan County Science and Technology Museum 单县科技馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The museum is a modern science centre of about 24,500 square metres in the north of Shan County town. - Sun Bin Tourist City 孙膑旅游城·亿城寺 4A scenic area · on the map
Sun Bin Tourist City is a large park of about 999 mu (roughly 67 hectares) in Jishan town, Juancheng County, built on the site of the old Yicheng Temple and opened in 2008. - Water Margin Heroes City 水浒好汉城 4A scenic area · on the map
This is a theme park built in the style of a Song-dynasty town, in Yuncheng County, the home area of Song Jiang, Chao Gai and other characters in the novel Water Margin. - Yellow River Old Course Wetland Scenic Area, Cao County 曹县黄河故道湿地风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
This wetland scenic area of about 512 hectares lies in Weiwan town on the bed the Yellow River left behind when it changed course in 1855, beside the Taihangdi reservoir. - Baishou and Baishi Memorial Arches 百寿坊及百狮坊 National heritage site · on the map
These are two stone memorial arches of the Qianlong era standing about 100 m apart in the old centre of Shan County: the Baishi Arch of 1769, carved with a hundred lions, and the Baishou Arch of 1765, carved with the character for longevity in a hundred scripts. - Guanyin Temple Pagoda, Yuncheng 郓城观音寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
Yuncheng's Guanyin Temple Pagoda, also called the Tang Pagoda, is an octagonal storeyed brick pagoda built in 931 in the Five Dynasties period, when the Later Tang ruled. - Juye Confucian Temple 巨野文庙 National heritage site
Juye Confucian Temple is a Ming-dynasty temple moved to its present site in 1383, of which only the Dacheng Hall survived the temple's closure in 1947. - Wohua Pagoda 卧化塔 National heritage site · on the map
Wohua Pagoda, also called Tian Pagoda, in Datianji town is a Tang-dynasty pagoda that the county describes as the oldest surviving above-ground building in south-west Shandong. - Yongfeng Pagoda, Juye 永丰塔 National heritage site · on the map
Yongfeng Pagoda is an octagonal brick pavilion-style pagoda in the south-east corner of Juye old town, about 31 m high with five surviving storeys; local records say it was begun in the Tang dynasty and finished in the Song.
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