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English version of Xuzhou’s scenic spots and historical sites

Xuzhou is located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, only 300 kilometers away from Nanjing, the provincial capital of Jiangsu.

Xuzhou has a mild climate with distinct seasons. Plains form the most part of Xuzhou alternating with hilly lands. Yi river, Shu river, the Grand Canal and the earlier course of Huanghe River all run through the city while Luoma Lake and Weishang Lake are scattered on the southern and northern fringes of the city.

The original name of Xuzhou is “Pengcheng”, with 6000-year splendid culture. During the time of Emperor Yao, Dapeng State was established here. It has a 2500-year city building history, and is one of the first cities in Jiangsu Province. Xuzhou was one of the nine states under the rule of Emperor Yu of the Xia Dynasty (21 century B.C.) when he was in charge of the regulation of rivers and watercourses. At that time Xuzhou was a name for a wide area, in which Pengcheng functioned as the center town.

Xuzhou used to be in the territory of Chu State in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was the capital of Xichu during the time of warfare between General Xiang Yu and General Liu Bang. After Liu's success it became the fief of his relatives for hundreds of years afterwards. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao (the chancellor at that time) assigned a prefectural governor to administer Pengcheng and this was the first time the present name Xuzhou was used. The city was officially set up in 1945 and came under the direct control of Jiangsu Province since 1953. The city nowadays has jurisdiction over four counties of Fengxian , Peixian, Tongshan, Suining, two county-class cities of Pizhou and Xinyi, and five districts of Yunlong, Gulou, Quanshan, Jiuli and Jiawang. It covers an area of ??11,258 square

Xuzhou tourist attractions in English Introduction

Xuzhou is northern jiangsu province and the huaihai region largest city, is the place with the approval of the state council of the legislative power of a major city, jiangsu province of the construction of the key planning is three metropolitan core city and four mega cities, and also one of the euro-asian continental bridge for China six central city and one of the central city of huai hai economic zone, and is the second euro-asia continental eastern end a population of more than three million extra large city. Xuzhou "front, west meets east central huaihai, nanping, north dominates the huaihe river qilu", known as the "five provinces," said. The beijing-shanghai railway, the longhai railway, the beijing-shanghai high iron, XuLan passenger dedicated line in this intersection, the beijing-hangzhou grand canal alongside and the city of xuzhou throughout the north and south, north shore weishan lake. The road extends in all directions, north, the beijing-tianjin, south of huning, west receives lanzhou-xinjiang, the east seashore over to China's important water and land transport hub and things, north and south economic contact important "crossroads. Xu sent writer WangMaoFei such evaluation of their own hometown: a state, han dynasty, three to the west of chu, qianlong four cruise, five provinces, six thousand years civilization, chairman seven visit, eight hundred ShouPengZu, nine north by emperor xuzhou, zhang li huaihai road.

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Xuzhou is the birthplace of Han culture. The horse drama stage, singing stage, swallow tower, crane-releasing pavilion and other famous monuments at home and abroad are still there today. A huge group of tombs of the Han and Chu kings (including Han terracotta warriors and horses and ancient portraits of the Han Dynasty) have been unearthed one after another and are listed as nationally protected cultural relics. Musician Ma Ke and painter Li Keran were both born and raised in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is two Chinese culture places of origin, plays Ma Tai, the song wind Taiwan, the swallow's tower, to put the crane pavilion and so on to hear the Chinese and foreign historical site, until now still. The huge Chinese Chuwangling tombs (including Chinese burial figures of warriors and horses, Chinese paint a portrait ancient) are unearthed one after another unearthed, juxtaposes for the national key protection cultural relic. Musician Mark, painter Li Keran are the Xuzhou person who is locally born.