Friday, October 10, 2008

Nanchen

Nanchen is a small village in Sishui County, in the of Shandong. It has a population of about 2,000.

Nanchen is an important production base of pesticide- and fertilizer-free healthy cereals and vegetables.

This village, though small, has a cultural history dating back more than 3000 years. A Han Dynasty tomb, roughly 2 millennia old, was excavated in 1984, at the foot of the sacred Zhaoyang Hill. To the west of the village is the mausoleum of a Song Dynasty princess.

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