# Tieling

Tieling (铁岭; Tiělíng) is a city in the north of Liaoning Province of China, northeast of the provincial capital Shenyang.
In history, there were many scholars and wizards who came from Tieling. A number of literary and artistic sketches have become popular in China, and Tieling has become the "hometown of champions" and "hometown of sketches". With its agricultural resources, coal resources and power industry, Tieling is known as the "granaries of Liaoning" and "Energy city". Tieling mountains and rivers are beautiful, Longshou Mountain has more than 30 ancient and modern cultural landscapes such as Sun Temple, ancient stele forest and Ciqing Temple, and Chengzishan Mountain City is a national cultural relic protection unit. Tieling has rich folk customs and unique regional charm. It is also the "hometown of Quyi sketches" and "Hometown of duet". The Yangko drama created by Tieling people has become a new kind of drama in the garden of Chinese drama.

## Understand
### History

The area has been settled at least since the Shang Dynasty (1700-1027 BCE) and there has been a town here at least since the first year of Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (713). Under the Republic of China (1911-1949) Fengtian Province was changed to Liaoning Province, and Tieling territory belonged to Liaoning Province. During World War II in China Yang Jingyu led the Communist First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance with a base area in Tieling.

### Geographical environment

Tieling City is located in the northern part of Liaoning Province, in the middle of the Songliao Plain. It is adjacent to Shenyang City and Fushun City in the south, and Jilin in the north The province is connected to Siping City and Fushun City to the east. It borders Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County and Liaoyuan City of Jilin Province, and is adjacent to Faku County and Kangping County of Shenyang City to the west, as well as Horqin Zuoyihou Banner and Tongliao City of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The city is 134 kilometers long from east to west and 162 kilometers wide from north to south. The total area 13,000 square kilometers. Among them, the urban area is 638 square kilometers.
Topography: The terrain of Tieling City is generally high in the east and low in the south, high in the north and low in the south, and slightly higher in the west. Mountains and hills are arranged on the east and west sides, and the central part is the Liaohe Plain that flows slowly from north to south. The city can be divided into two major landform areas: the low hilly area in the east and the low hilly plain area along the Liaohe River in the west. The eastern low hilly area is located east of the Harbin (Erbin) Dalian (Lian) Highway. It is the southward extension of the Changbai Mountains. The terrain gradually decreases from east to west. It mainly includes Tieling County, Changtu County, the eastern part of Kaiyuan City and Xifeng County and Qinghe District all cover an area of ​​6,800 square kilometers, accounting for about 52.3% of the city’s total area; the western Liaohe River low-hill plain area is located to the west of the Harbin (Erbin) Dalian (Lian) Highway and is impacted by the Liaohe River and its tributaries The plain formed by the plain slopes gently from north to south, mainly including most of Changtu County, the western part of Kaiyuan City and Tieling County, and all of Diaobingshan City. It covers an area of ​​approximately 6,185 square kilometers, approximately 47.7% of the city's total area. Of the city's total area, mountains and hills account for about 40%, plains about 45%, and rivers and others about 15%. It is roughly divided into "four mountains and half water, four half fields, and one half roads and manors."
Climate: Tieling City has a mid-temperate continental monsoon climate with cold and dry winters and warm and rainy summers, abundant sunshine in the same season with rain and heat, and distinct dry and wet seasons. The city's annual precipitation is 600 mm.

### Natural resources

Tieling City has more than 100 species of wild vascular plants, including more than 1,000 species, including more than 700 medicinal species and more than 200 species such as brewing species, aromatic oils, fibers, and tannins. The main medicinal plants include cork bark, Amaranthus agaricus, ash, Acanthopanax senticosus, Lespedezae, Chinese wolfberry, Southern snake vine, kiwi fruit, Schisandra chinensis, Platycodon, Polygonatum odorifera, Adenophora adenophora, and Pangolin. , Asarum, ginseng, Fritillaria, clematis, Fushoucao, Fangfeng, Anemarrhena, Motherwort, Ligusticum chuanxiong, licorice, agrimony, wolfberry sophora, peony, polygala, skullcap, etc. Animal resources: There are more than 200 species of terrestrial vertebrates in Tieling City, of which birds are the most numerous, followed by mammals.
Thechengzi Reservoir and Zhenziling Reservoir, all of which are distributed on first-level tributary of the Liaohe River in the east. climate is cold and there are few species of amphibians and reptiles. Main wild animals: mammals include hedgehogs, wolves, sables, sables, ermines, weasels, roe deer, badgers, lchengzi Reservoir and Zhenziling Reservoir, all of which are distributed on first-level tributary of the Liaohe River in the east.ynxes, foxes, sticky rats, tigers, roe deer, musk deer, black bears, etc.; poultry There are sparrows, swallows, magpies, cuckoos, crows, wild ducks, quails, owls, larks, thrushes, pheasants, flying dragons, storks, mandarin ducks, swan geese, cuckoos, red-billed gulls, etc. Insects include butterflies, dragonflies, ants, crickets, locusts, ladybugs, pine caterpillars, flies, etc.; arthropods include spiders; invertebrates include earthworms; fish include crucian carp, carp, ship nails, wheat ears, etc. Loach, snakehead fish, catfish, grass, horse mouth, shrimp, mussel, snail, crab, etc.; amphibians include frogs, toads, water roosters, purple-breasted frogs, snakes, turtles, horse snakes, tiger-spotted colubrids, and red-spotted frogs.
Coal is the most important mineral resource in the city, and coalbed methane reserves have also been developed and utilized. In addition, there are copper, iron, lead, zinc, gold and other metal mineral deposits.

## See

* Longshou Mountain (龙首山; Lóngshǒushān, Dragon Head Mountain) (Youzhou District). Longshou Mountain is located in Yinzhou District of Tieling City, east of Chai River, west of the city, across the north and south of Yinzhou. It is 1 km wide from east to west, 3 km long from north to south, and the highest peak is 156 meters above sea level. Because it came from the southeast, to the Chai River bank suddenly lifted up, like the head of a dragon, so the name Longhead mountain, it is a famous scenic spot in Tieling, in May every year, the mountains, the valley is full of colorful roses, intoxicating flowers floating in the wind. The spring scenery here is beautiful, and the autumn scenery is even more elegant. The cool autumn wind blew red maple leaves, in the dense layers of trees, visitors continue. "Dragon Head looking for autumn" is one of the eight sights of the Chai River. Longshou Mountain has a long history and is the place where Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty stayed in the east. Longshou Mountain has been developed and constructed several times. On it, you can enjoy many cultural relics and monuments, overlooking the new appearance of the ancient city. Ciqing Temple is located at the top of the north peak of Longshou Mountain, formerly known as Xiufeng Temple and Water tide Temple, also known as Sanqing Temple. The temple is an ancient and simple Siheyuan style building, there are main hall, east and west side hall, Buddhist pavilion, drunk Weng floor. In front of the courtyard, there are two stela pavilions, half wall and Suyun. The main hall faces three wide, two deep eaves under the corridor, the square has bright painting. There are three Buddha statues such as Shakyamuni in the temple, and there are eight vajra clay statues. Zuiweng Building was originally a mountain gate, rebuilt in 1921 into a wooden structure of hard mountain two-story building, the first floor for access to the temple, the second floor used to be a place for scholars to write poems, is now transformed into a guest lounge, there are a number of famous paintings and paintings chanting Longshou mountain. The pagoda of Xiufeng Temple is located a hundred meters south of Ciqing Temple. It is an octagonal nine-level solid brick pagoda with dense eaves. It was also built during the reign of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in 1591. The tower has brick statues of Buddha and Buddhist niches. The pagoda of Xiufeng Temple has Taoran Pavilion in the north, Drip Cui Pavilion in the south, and Kuixing Tower in the south of Drip Cui Pavilion. There is also a small stone pavilion to the east of the pagoda of Xiufeng Temple, and the stone tablet inside the pavilion records the reconstruction of the ancient pagoda. Ciqing Temple was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Liaoning Province in 1988.

## Do

Tieling City has abundant tourism resources and has three national AAAA-level tourist attractions (Lianhua Lake National Wetland Park, Diaobingshan Steam Locomotive Museum and Qinghe Reservoir Tourist Area). The famous Eight Scenes of Tieling in history (White Pagoda with clouds, Maofeng with clouds and trees, Dragon's head looking for autumn, Pengdu sailing, Red cliffs covered with snow, Yuan Lake covered with moon, Mountain Guo facing smoke, Chaihe River crossing at night), Changtu Eight Scenes (Wangsi Gui Crow, mist and rain at Nanqiao, orioles at Yuling Mountain, clear snow at Jinshan Mountain, wild geese falling at Guanshan Mountain, Qingyun Stone Buddha, Mitsui Mirage, evening ferry across the Tongjiang River) and the Eight Scenic Spots of Xifeng (Sacred Tree) Qing Stele, Chengshan Jade Barrier, Kou River Qiuyue, Monkey Stone Spring Shadow, Rock Pine Late Show, Qingdian Stone Man, Huangting Fishing Fire, Camelback Drinking Stream) are all located here. The earliest existing ancient pagoda in northern Liaoning - Yuantong Temple Pagoda, Xiangyang The temple, Pu'an Temple, Xianzhou Ancient City, the largest ancient city in the north, and Yingang Academy, where Zhou Enlai studied, are all well preserved. There are 4 national key cultural relics protection units, 4 national intangible cultural heritages, and 22 A-level and above tourist attractions.
As a "big city" in art works, Tieling has distinctive features. Tieling city tourism business cards mainly include Yingang Academy, Tieling finger painting, Red Mansion culture, sketch art, and industrial culture; in terms of natural scenery, Tieling area has Bailuzhou wildlife Reserve, Lizi Mountain Forest Park, Dajiaoshan Natural Scenic Area, Zhenziling Reservoir and Baoxing Reservoir, Wujiao Lake, etc.; the city also has Green Garden Xiaomaju Ski Resort, Longshan Golf Club, Tieling New City "Ten Thousand Mu Flowers", etc. "Sea", Taiyang Mountain Scenic Area, Lakeside Villa, Tieling Museum and other modern tourist resorts.

## Eat

Local specialties include Tieling green onions, Diaobingshan coal carvings, Changtu Huo goose, Kaiyuan garlic, ring white mushrooms, sika deer, Liao asarum, hazel mushrooms, flue-cured tobacco, Shanyanwang wine, hazelnuts, and hawthorn.