Brief introduction of deping town

Deping Town is located in the north of Linyi County, at the junction of Linyi, Lingxian, Ningjin, Leling and Shanghe counties. With a total area of 144.32 square kilometers, it governs 26 communities with a total population of 63,000. Provincial Highway 3 15 runs through the whole territory and is an important transportation hub from Jinan in the south, Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Binzhou in the east and Dezhou in the west. There are Linyi No.2 Middle School and Linyi No.2 People's Hospital, which are the cultural, educational and medical centers in the north of Linyi County. Deping has a history of more than 2,000 years, which was divided into enfeoffment in ancient times, established in the pre-Qin Dynasty and established in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Mi Fei, a writer in the late Han Dynasty, Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xianggong and Ge Shouli, a storyteller and a singer were all born in Deping. Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher and poet in Song Dynasty, was once the supervisor of Deping Town. Its Zhangba ancient Buddha is a national second-class protected cultural relic, and Cao Zhonghan's tomb is a municipal key protected cultural relic. Its Deping Dayang Song is an intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province, and Deping Square Rice Wotou and Deping Smoked Chicken are famous snacks in Texas.