Liaocheng.

Liaocheng is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong, where the province meets Hebei and Henan. The Grand Canal and the Yellow River cross here, and four smaller rivers run with them. The land is the Yellow River's alluvial plain, flat and farmed, and the city has long been the meeting point of two ways of life: the Yellow River culture of the fields and the canal culture of the merchants. More than four hundred monuments and ancient sites survive in its territory, and six heritage points and two stretches of waterway are on the Grand Canal World Heritage list. It is a national historical and cultural city. The old town was Dongchang Prefecture through the Ming and Qing, and its name comes from the ancient town that the Zuo Zhuan already called the western frontier of Qi.