Taitou () is a town of around 58,000 people in the north of

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

province, People's Republic of China. Located in the northwest of Weifang city, it is under the administration of the county-level city of Shouguang city, to the southeast, and has an area of . Within the town are 42 administrative villages. In 1958, Taitou was created as a

people's commune The people's commune () was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the People's Republic of China during the period from 1958 to 1983, until they were replaced by townships. Communes, the largest collective units, were div ...

, then changed to a town in 1984. In 2000 it absorbed the town of Niutou (). Taitou was the site of Martin C. Yang's ethnography ''A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province'' (1945).

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