From June 18 to 21, 2013, I traveled around Zaozhuang, visiting places such as Tai'erzhuang, the Tai'erzhuang Memorial Hall, Baodugu Forest Park, Tengzhou, and the Honghe Wetland of Weishan Lake. Zaozhuang is truly a wonderful place.
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Tai'erzhuang Memorial Hall
The Battle of Tai'erzhuang was fought between March and mid-April 1938, when the Chinese Nationalist forces confronted elite divisions of the Japanese army attempting to attack Xuzhou from Shandong along two routes. The Japanese 5th Division under Itagaki Seishirō primarily targeted Linyi, while the 10th Division under Itagaki Seishirō and the Itagaki Ryūnosuke-led forces attacked Tengxian, Lincheng, and Tai'erzhuang. This battle was part of the larger Xuzhou Campaign during the War of Resistance against Japan.
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Zaozhuang City is locatedinShandong Province,and is the fourthprefecture-level cityestablished in the province.It lies to the east of the Yishan Mountain range, bordersWeishan Laketo the west, connects toXuzhou—a key site of the Two Hans culture—to the south, and neighborsJining—the hometown of Confucius and Mencius—to the north. During World War II,the Battle of Tai'erzhuangtook place here. Zaozhuang is a modern city built and prospered because of coal. It boasts a 7,300-year-old ancestral culture, 4,300-year-old city-state culture, 2,700-year-oldCanal culture,and 130-year-old industrial culture. Located along the golden tourism route of “one mountain, one water, Two Hans, three Confuciuses,” it is a vibrant and uniquely charming emergingtourist city.It combines the boldness of a northern city with thedelicate beauty of a southern water town,earning the titles “Water Town North of the Yangtze · Canal Ancient City” and the reputation of being the “Pearl of Southern Shandong.”
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