The interesting places in Liaocheng are as follows:
1. Dong'e Ejiao City. Dong'e Ejiao City, located in Luoshen Lake Park in the western suburbs of Dong'e County, is a comprehensive cultural tourism destination integrating donkey hide gelatin health preservation, film and television drama shooting, leisure tourism, and traditional Chinese medicine culture promotion and education.
It is now a national scenic spot and a key cultural industry project in Shandong Province. It is one of the "100 places you must visit in Shandong". The scenic area is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery. The main attractions include Dazhamen Film and Television Base, Gongjiao Museum, Donkey-hide Jiao Pavilion, etc.
2. Liaocheng Dongchang Lake Tourist Area. Dongchang Lake Scenic Area is a national-level tourist attraction. Relying on Dongchang Lake, which has vast waters and beautiful scenery and surrounds the ancient water town of China, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is famous at home and abroad, passes through the scenic area, embodying the characteristics of "water, ancient times and culture", creating a "city with beautiful scenery" in Liaocheng. There is a lake, a city in the lake, and the city, lake and river are integrated into one."
3. Liaocheng Yanggu Jingyanggang Tourist Area. Jingyanggang tourist area is the place where Wu Song fought the tiger described in "Water Margin". It is also the site of the Longshan Cultural City ruins. It is a key scenic spot on the Water Margin tourism line.
The main attractions include Sanwanbuogang Hotel, villagers notice office, county government notice office, mountain temple, Wu Song Tiger Hunting Site, stone tablets, Hu Xiaoting Pavilion, Wu Song Temple, Lake Island, Diaoyutai, Forest of Steles , Tiger Pond, Monkey Mountain, Deer Garden, Archery Range and more than 20 places. There is a lake covering more than 100 acres in the northern part of the scenic area, which is available for tourists to fish and boat.
The entertainment projects in the scenic area include Shandong Kuaishu, tiger and chicken fights, sheep fighting, opera, martial arts performances, etc. The stone tablet "Where Wu Song Killed Tigers" was erected during the Southern Song Dynasty.
4. Liaocheng Lion Tower. It is located at the head of Central Cross Street in the old city of Yanggu County. According to "Water Margin", it was originally called the Restaurant under the Lion Bridge or the Restaurant under the Lion Street Bridge. It was the place where Wu Song fought against Ximen Qing, and was later called the Lion Tower. The year of creation is unknown. It was originally a two-story earth building. In 1958, it was renovated into a two-story antique-style building with brick and wood structure, with 5 rooms on the upper and lower floors, and a total height of 15.5 meters.
The Lion House in Yanggu County was built in the Northern Song Dynasty and is called "one of the few restaurants in the world" by UNESCO. The "Water Margin" has spread among the people, and the story of "Wu Song fighting and killing Ximen Qing in the Lion Tower" is even more well-known, which deepens the tourism characteristics of the Lion Tower.
Climate:
It belongs to the temperate monsoon climate zone, with significant seasonal changes and monsoon climate characteristics, and is a semi-arid continental climate. The annual dryness is 1.7-1.9. Liaocheng is dry and windy in spring, with rapid warming, sufficient sunlight, and strong solar radiation; summer is hot and rainy, with hot and rainy weather in the same season; autumn is high and crisp, the temperature drops rapidly, and solar radiation weakens.
The annual average temperature in Liaocheng is 13.1℃. The annual accumulated temperature of ≥0℃ is 4884-5001℃, and the annual accumulated temperature of ≥10℃ is 4404-4524℃. The heat difference within Liaocheng City is small, with more heat distribution in Dong'e County in the southeast and less in Linqing City in the northwest. The average frost-free period is 193-201 days.
The average annual precipitation is 578.4 mm, the maximum annual precipitation is 1004.7 mm (Chiping, 1961), and the minimum annual precipitation is 187.2 mm (Linqing, 1992). The precipitation in Liaocheng City is distributed in the southeast More than in the northwest.
Nearly 70% of the annual precipitation is concentrated in summer, and local waterlogging is prone to occur in summer. There is more rainfall in autumn than in spring, droughts occur frequently in spring, and precipitation is the least in winter, accounting for only about 3% of the whole year. Liaocheng has relatively sufficient light resources, with an average annual sunshine hours of 2,567 hours, total annual solar radiation of 120.1-127.1 kcal/cm^2, and effective radiation of 58.9-62.3 kcal/cm^2.