1、Many travelers are interested in coming to visit my hometown, Zoucheng city, during their vacation time. It is because Zoucheng city has many historical sites and beautiful scenery so that visitors linger. And I would give you a detailed introduction of my beloved hometown in the following.Zoucheng
2、is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, the north of Zoucheng is the hometown of Confucius, Qufu, and the south is Tengzhou. The city has a total area of 1616 square kilometers, with a population of 1 million 150 thousand. Landform types of Zoucheng are generally divided into two categorie
3、s: low mountains, hills and sloping fields. According to the terrain, it can be divided into low mountains, hills, plains, depressions and water these five types. Advantageous geography seat makes Zoucheng rich in natural resources. The main mine resources are coal, granite, limestone, kaolin and ma
4、rble etc. Zoucheng has a long history and rich tourism resources. It is a famous cultural city with a history of three thousand years. Zoucheng in ancient times known as the “Zou Lu shrine”, is the birthplace of Confucianism Chinese in Xia dynasty, it belong to Xuzhou, the Qin dynasty set the “Zou C
5、ounty“, followed by October 1992, the county into a city called Zoucheng city. Zoucheng was the hometown of Mencius, a great thinker, educator and representative of Confucian school in the Warring States Period, therefore, Zoucheng has the praise of “Kong Meng hometown nation, cultural birthplace”,
6、“The land of the Oriental gentleman, the town of sages”, it is a famous historical and cultural city, an emerging energy industry base, an excellent tourism city in China, the top ten investment and pioneering cities in the country, and thirty-first in Chinas top 100 counties(cities). The place prop
7、itious for giving rise to great men. Not only has the famous person Mencius, but also have other outstanding figures. Such as Menciuss mother, she moved three times to find an environment that she felt suitable for the childs upbringing. And Kuang Heng, an economist in the Western Han Dynasty, who s
8、tudies very hard. Long history, splendid culture, leaving a large number of precious historical and cultural heritage of Zoucheng, there are all kinds of cultural relics at more than 300, including 2 national key cultural relics protection units, the provincial key cultural relics protection units 8
9、. Four Meng and Four Mounts have been well-known for a long time. Four Meng mean Meng Temple, Meng Mansion, Meng Forest and Mengmu Forest, while Four Mounts means the cliff carves of Mount Tie, Mount Gang, Mount Ge and Mount Jian. Meng Temple was where people feted Mencius, with 5 layers yards and 6
10、4 halls, accounting for 4 hectares. The main building Mencius Hall seats at the middle axes from south to north, repaired by all past dynasties as much as 38 times. The building remained waw to rebuild at the period of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, 17 meters tall, with 7 parts, 2 layers of pick and gr
11、een glaze cover. At the two sides of the middle axes there are Sleeping Hall, Qisheng Hall, Mengmu Hall, Zhiyan Hall, Tiaozhu Temple, Dongxi Corridor, Feteware House, Xingsheng House and Stele Booth for Emperor Kangxi and Qianlong. In the temple there are verdant ancient trees, mainly Chinese junipe
12、rs, and interspersed by ancient pagoda trees, gingkgos and wisterias. Meng Mansion, near Meng Temple, was the inhabitancy of Menciuss lineal descent offspring, the front part as office and the back as house, with halls and houses some 116 in all, and stone lion sculp at the both sides of the black-p
13、aint gates.After tourists visited Four Meng, enjoyed the cliff carves of Mount Tie, Mount Ge, Mount Gang and Mount Jian, they can climb Mount Yi. Although Mount Yi is not high, it sets the grandeur of Mount Tai, the wonder of Mount Huang, and the precipitous rise of Mount Hua, forming a unique beaut
14、y of nature. Many famous figures like Confucius, Qin Shihuang, Li Si, Mencius, Sima Qian, Hua Tuo, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Dongpo, Wang Anshi, Ou Yangxiu, Huang Tingjian, Dong Qichang and Zheng Banqiao etc had climbed here, and they left more than 300 famous cliff stone and stele, which add luster to the
15、singular history and culture of Mount Yi There are some 360 kinds of animals and plants, abundant crops such as wheat, corn, peanut, and cotton. The variety of fruits is also remarkable, such as famous Chinese date, hawthorn, apple and peach. Chinese date has quite a long history, with a high record
16、 of 6,500 hectares planting area and 10 millions plants, so far named Three Date Series of Shandong with Gold Silk Date of Leling and Ring Date of Liaocheng. Besides special local product, famous scenery, historical figure, Zoucheng also has delicious foods. Like hot and sour trotters, which is made
17、 of pigre trotters and lettuce. Tastes delicious, fat but not greasy. Handmade pancake, like the moon circle, like copper Zheng as large as Shanxi paper thin, yellow color like feathers. The production method is to wheat, corn, millet and other grains with crushed stone paste, and then, uses the gri
18、ddle makes the handmade pancake. I think the handmade pancake, which material is corn meal, tastes fragrant and sweet. In addition to these two delicacies, Zoucheng has many other delicacies, such as leek fragrant small pie, Braised Pork Balls in Gravy Sauce, Stir the pot tofu and so on.Zoucheng is
19、a warm temperate zone, and is a continental monsoon climate zone in East Asia. Its seasons are alternate clearly, precipitation concentration, rain heat synchronization, the difference between hot and cold seasons and dry wet seasons are obvious. It is suitable for sightseeing all the year round. Vi
20、sitors can see different scenery and enjoy different cuisines in different seasons.If tourists want to go sightseeing in Zoucheng, they need to check the weather of these days of travel, with umbrellas or sunscreen, bring enough money and book the hotel in advance.Welcome to my hometown of Zoucheng.
