Shajiabang (

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: ) is a town in

Changshu Changshu (; Suzhounese: /d͡ʐan¹³ ʐoʔ²³/) is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. It borders the prefecture-level city of Nantong to the northeast across the Yangt ...

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; a tourist village located adjacent to

Yangcheng Lake Yangcheng Lake () is a freshwater lake about northeast of the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, and ranges in depth from . The lake is -long from north to south, with an average width of from east to west. It is the most famous area of origin ...

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Province,

. There is a scenic area in the town named Shajiabang Resort.

Tourism attractions

Shajiabang Resort covers an area of . It comprises various tourist attractions such as the Revolutionary Traditional Education Area, the Redstone folk culture village, the National Defense Education Park, and a reed maze.

Cultural reference

*Shajiabang has found fame as the subject of the

Chinese opera Traditional Chinese opera (), or ''Xiqu'', is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. It is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China, and evolved gradually over more tha ...

Shajiabang Shajiabang ( Chinese: ) is a town in Changshu, Suzhou, China; a tourist village located adjacent to Yangcheng Lake in Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal provi ...

'' which was nationally popular in 1960s to 1970s (previously written ''Shachiapang''). *There is a TV series named "Sha Jia Bang" which is acted by Chen daoming and Xuqing. It tells the story of Aqing, a woman who helps the Chinese army to fight against the Japanese army with the aid of some local residents.

Local products

*Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, the best known. *Duck blood-black glutinous rice sushi *Green dumplings *Pictures made from reeds

References

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