Linyi 临沂Línyí

About Linyi

Linyi, one of Shandong's largest cities by area, spreads over the Yimeng hills, where Mount Meng (Yimengshan) Scenic Area and the Firefly Water Cave and Underground Grand Canyon are both 5A sights. The calligrapher Wang Xizhi was born here in ancient Langya, and his former residence stands in the city; bamboo slips of Sun Tzu's Art of War were found in tombs at Yinqueshan in 1972. Wholesale markets drive the economy, and Tancheng is known as a home of ginkgo.

What to eat in Linyi

• Linyi sa soup (临沂糁汤)
• Linyi stir-fried chicken (临沂炒鸡)

Listed sites in Linyi

37 sites in Linyi are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Firefly Water Cave and Underground Grand Canyon 萤火虫水洞·地下大峡谷 5A scenic area · on the map
  This 5A area has two cave attractions in Yishui County about 8 km apart.
• Mount Meng (Yimengshan) Scenic Area 沂蒙山景区 5A scenic area · on the map
  Mount Meng is Shandong's second-highest mountain (Guimeng Peak, 1,156 m) and forms the Mengshan park of the Linyi Yimengshan UNESCO Global Geopark.
• Cangma Mountain and Guan Mountain 苍马山·冠山 4A scenic area · on the map
  Cangma Mountain and Guan Mountain are two wooded hill areas north-east of Linshu town, listed together as one 4A scenic area.
• Daigu Landform Scenic Area, Mengyin 岱崮地貌 4A scenic area · on the map
  Daigu is the type locality of the 'gu' landform: flat-topped mesas capped by a 20–30 m layer of Cambrian limestone, with about 30 clustered around Daigu town in Mengyin County.
• Dongfang Ruihai International Hot Spring Resort 东方瑞海国际温泉度假村 4A scenic area · on the map
  Dongfang Ruihai is a hot-spring resort and hotel complex in the south of Yishui town, on about 250 mu (roughly 17 hectares) that the county government says holds thermal baths, restaurants and conference rooms; the hotel was rated four-star in 2010.
• Former Shandong Provincial Government and 115th Division HQ, Dadian 山东省政府和八路军115师司令部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A manor of the Zhuang family, built in the Ming and Qing dynasties in Dadian town, which in the 1940s housed the Eighth Route Army's 115th Division headquarters and the Shandong provincial government set up under the Communist Party.
• Guantang Hot Spring Resort 观唐温泉度假村 4A scenic area · on the map
  Guantang is a hot-spring resort of about 790 mu (roughly 50 hectares) in the Tangtou hot-spring zone in the north of Hedong district.
• Hongshizhai Resort 红石寨 4A scenic area · on the map
  Hongshizhai is a leisure resort on the shore of Xiangshan Lake in Tongjing town, developed by the operator of nearby Zhuquan village.
• Huangshan Dongyi Culture Park 皇山东夷文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Huangshan Dongyi Culture Park is a park at the foot of Huang Hill in Linyi's Economic and Technological Development Zone, built around the Linyi Dongyi Culture Museum.
• Jiujianpeng Village Scenic Area 九间棚 4A scenic area · on the map
  Jiujianpeng is a mountain village at about 640 m on Longding Mountain in Difang town, whose people once lived in a natural rock shelter and later built roads, brought in electricity and terraced the slopes.
• Lanling National Agricultural Park 兰陵国家农业公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Lanling National Agricultural Park is a large farm-tourism park in Bianzhuang subdistrict, built to show modern vegetable and fruit growing, with greenhouses, soilless-cultivation displays and picking gardens.
• Linyi Science and Technology Museum 临沂市科技馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  Linyi Science and Technology Museum is the city's municipal science museum, a large modern building in the Beicheng New Area near the meeting of the Yi, Fang and Liuqing rivers.
• Linyi Zoological and Botanical Garden 临沂动植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Linyi Zoological and Botanical Garden is a large municipal park in the south-east of Hedong district, combining a zoo, planted botanical areas and landscaped lakes.
• Longyuan (Dragon Garden) Tourist Area 临沂龙园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Longyuan is a resort and rural-tourism complex next to the Tangtou hot-spring zone in Hedong district, built in Huizhou and Suzhou-garden style around a dragon-culture theme, so its buildings are modern rather than historic.
• Maquan Leisure Park 沂蒙马泉休闲园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Maquan Leisure Park is an orchard-and-farm park in the hills of Tongjing town, Yinan County, developed from 2012 as a 'pastoral complex' with agricultural demonstration and elder-care themes.
• Menglianggu Campaign Memorial Area 孟良崮 4A scenic area · on the map
  Menglianggu is a small mountain of about 1.5 sq km in Mengyin County where, in May 1947, People's Liberation Army forces surrounded a Nationalist army unit in the Menglianggu campaign of the Chinese Civil War.
• Tancheng Ginkgo Eco-Tourism Area 郯城银杏生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A 9.9 sq km belt of old ginkgo groves along both banks of the Yi River in south-west Tancheng, which the county government calls China's largest ancient-ginkgo area, with about 48,000 fruit-bearing trees over a century old.
• Tanguo Ancient City, Tancheng 郯国古城 4A scenic area · on the map
  Tanguo Ancient City is a modern district built in Han–Tang style on Huangting Road in Tancheng, which opened in May 2021 and draws on local stories such as Confucius's visit to the Tan ruler.
• Tiangu Natural Underground Gallery 天谷·天然地下画廊 4A scenic area · on the map
  Tiangu is a karst cave in Liuhuyu village, Yuandongtou town, whose stalactites are shaped like birds, animals and landscapes, hence the name 'natural underground gallery'.
• Tianshang Wangcheng (Royal City in the Sky) 天上王城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Tianshang Wangcheng occupies the flat top of Jiwang Gu, a cliff-edged mesa of about 577 m with a ring of stone walls and old foundations from the Spring and Autumn period.
• Tianyu Natural Museum 天宇自然博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  Tianyu Natural Museum, opened in 2004, is a large natural-history museum in Pingyi town with 28 exhibition halls and more than 390,000 items, mainly fossils and mineral and gem specimens from different geological periods.
• Wuji Guigu 无极鬼谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  Wuji Guigu is a commercial scenic area in the hills and lake country of Zhulu town, themed on Guiguzi, the Warring States-period thinker.
• Xueshan Rainbow Valley 雪山彩虹谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  Xueshan Rainbow Valley is a leisure park in a wooded valley on the eastern side of Yishui town, best known for an artificial rainbow made with sprayed water and light that the park says can be seen in every season.
• Yayougou Scenic Area 压油沟 4A scenic area · on the map
  Yayougou is a rural tourism area in the hills of Lanling County, laid out around a Yimeng stone-house village with flagstone lanes, converted guesthouses and folk performances.
• Yimeng Huakai Tourist Area, Yishui 沂蒙花开 4A scenic area · on the map
  Yimeng Huakai is a family-oriented park with an agricultural theme at Yinjiayu village in Quanzhuang town, Yishui County, which the county government lists as a 4A scenic area.
• Yimeng Red Film and TV Base 沂蒙红色影视基地 4A scenic area · on the map
  The Yimeng Red Film and TV Base, also known as Hongsao Hometown Tourist Area, was set up in 2008 in Changshanzhuang village, an old stone village in Mamuchi township, as a location for filming wartime dramas; more than 400 films and series have been shot there.
• Yimeng Yunpu Dongtian, Fei County 沂蒙云瀑洞天 4A scenic area · on the map
  A scenic area in Fei County laid out in four parts: the Finger-moving Stone (a balancing rock), Tianmeng Lake, the Yunpu Dongtian zone of rock formations and small waterfalls, and a water park.
• Zhisheng Hot Spring Resort 智圣汤泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  Zhisheng is a large hot-spring resort at the north-eastern edge of Yinan town, themed on Zhuge Liang, the Three Kingdoms strategist whom Yinan counts among its natives, with Han-style buildings set in a Jiangnan-style garden.
• Zhujialin Eco-Tourism Area 朱家林 4A scenic area · on the map
  Zhujialin is a rural area in the hills of Andi town that Yinan County has redeveloped since 2016 as a 'pastoral complex' of themed guesthouses, a 'field living room' and flats for creative start-ups.
• Zhuquan Village, Yinan 竹泉村 4A scenic area · on the map
  Zhuquan ('Bamboo Spring') is an old village of stone houses built around springs and bamboo groves, renamed in the Qianlong era.
• Former Residence of Wang Xizhi and Xiyanchi Tombs, Linyi 王羲之故居 National heritage site
  A small classical-style garden in central Linyi commemorating the calligrapher Wang Xizhi, whom the city counts among its natives.
• Han Que Gate Towers, Pingyi County Museum 皇圣卿阙、功曹阙 National heritage site · on the map
  Two Eastern Han stone que (free-standing gate towers), the Huangshengqing Que of AD 86 and the Gongcao Que of AD 87, are displayed indoors in the Han Que Room of Pingyi County Museum in Lianhuashan Park.
• New Fourth Army Headquarters Site, Linyi 临沂新四军军部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  A memorial park and museum in Linyi's Hedong District marking the site where the New Fourth Army headquarters was last based, in 1946-47, and where the East China Military Region and East China Field Army were set up.
• Old Capital of the Tan State, Tancheng 郯国故城 National heritage site · on the map
  These are the remains of the capital of the small Zhou-period state of Tan, on the north side of Tancheng, which stayed a county and commandery seat from the Qin and Han to the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
• Old Capital of the Zeng State, Lanling 鄫国故城 National heritage site · on the map
  Remains of the capital of the Zeng state, a small state of the Zhou period, in the villages of Cheng and Chenghou in Lanling County, which was still occupied in the Han.
• Sites of the Daqingshan Breakout Battle 临沂大青山突围战遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  These sites commemorate the Daqingshan breakout of 30 November 1941, when thousands of people from Eighth Route Army, Shandong Party and government offices and the Anti-Japanese University's First Branch broke out of a Japanese encirclement at heavy cost; the dead included the German journalist Hans Shippe.
• Yinan Han Tombs (Beizhai) 沂南北寨汉墓 National heritage site · on the map
  A museum built over an Eastern Han tomb group at Beizhai village, near Yinan county town, which opened in 1996.

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