Location of Heze in Shandong

Heze is in the southwest of Shandong Province. It has a total area of 12,239 square kilometers. As of October 2022, Heze City has two municipal districts and seven counties under its jurisdiction.

Heze was originally a natural ancient Ze, Jishui by the confluence of the He Shui, He Shui out of the connection between the ancient Jishui, Surabaya two major water systems, the Tang renamed Longchi, the Qing Dynasty called the Xiayue Lake. Qing Yongzheng thirteen years (1735) rise Caozhou for the prefecture, attached to Guo set up the county, because of the south of the "He Mountain", north of the "Lei Ze", given the name Heze. Heze has a long history and enjoys the reputation of "the center of the world", and the nine zones of "Yugong", including Heze, Leize, Dainoze and Mengzhuze, are all located in the territory.

Customs of Heze

1, sheep fighting

Heze sheep fighting is said to have originated in the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Cao was defeated by Yuan Shao, retreated to Caozhou, people tired of horse exhaustion, morale is low, suddenly saw two sheep against each other, very powerful, the spirit of a revitalization, that is, to call his subordinates to watch, infected with the group of passionate, counterattack, defeated Yuan Shao. Sheep fighting usually have "free style" and "standardized" two kinds.

2, cockfighting

Heze cockfighting has a long history. In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period there are more than ten meters high cockfighting platform, folk "cockfighting platform Huai Gu" music circulated. Cockfighting has a set of strict rules, by the referee according to the rules. To participate in the fight, the chicken, the ancient name of the abetting chicken, commonly known as the bite chicken, is a valuable ornamental fighting chicken species, fighting before most of the specialized breeding and training.

3, face painting

Face painting is commonly known as pinching people, wheat flour and glutinous rice flour as the main material, add the appropriate amount of pigment and water into different colors of dough, steamed in a pot with the appropriate amount of antiseptic, moth-proof, anti-drying agent, the use of knives, cutting hairpins, and other simple tools and a unique process, molded into figures, birds and animals, fish and insects, flowers, mountains, pavilions, and other ornamental value of the arts and crafts.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Heze City