Cangzhou

Cangzhou is a prefecture-degree city in japanese Hebei province, People's Republic of China. At the 2010 census, Cangzhou's built-up or metro vicinity fabricated from Yunhe, Xinhua districts and Cang County in huge element being conurbated had a populace of 1,205,814 population, at the same time as the prefecture-diploma administrative unit in standard has a populace of 7,134,062. It lies approximately ninety kilometres from the principle port town of Tianjin, and 180 km from Beijing. The metropolis has traditionally been known in China for its wushu Chinese martial arts and acrobatics in particular, the Wu Qiao university.

Cangzhou is also famed for its historic thousand-one year-antique forty-ton sculpture, the Iron Lion of Cangzhou. The sculpture is reportedly the biggest cast-iron sculpture within the global, solid in 953 inside the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms duration. The famed lion has even given its call to a locally brewed beer and is a image of the metropolis. Cangzhou is domestic to a traditional Chinese shape of musical acting arts, Kuaiban Dagu. The city hosts seven mosques for Muslim adherents by way of and big Hui. One of them, the West Mosque, has accrued at its museum clearly one of China's notable collections of Islamic manuscripts and artefacts.