Historical Sites
A famous local site are the ruins of the Ming Ancestors' Mausoleum (明祖陵, Ming Zuling), built by the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in honor of his ancestors who lived here.
The mausoleum site was flooded ca. 1680, when the Yellow River changed its course, merged with the Huai River, and the Hongze Lake appeared. (The nearby Ming-era city of Sizhou (泗州) was completely flooded by the same lake as well). In the 1960s, the lake waters receded; the stone figures of the mausoleum's Spirit way were subsequently recovered from the mud and re-erected. (33°5′7″N 118°28′18″E / 33.08528°N 118.47167°E / 33.08528; 118.47167)
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