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Tianjin is best read along its water. The Hai River gathers five tributaries and reaches the sea at a single point, and that one channel made a canal port, a treaty port, nine foreign concessions and a ring of industrial districts. Far to the north, Jizhou is the only mountain country the municipality has. Between the two lie the salt flats, the rice plain and a town that has printed for the New Year for four centuries.

Tianjin
Heping District Hebei District Hongqiao District Hedong District Nankai District Hexi District Binhai New Area Dongli District Jinnan District Jizhou District Wuqing District Ninghe District Beichen District Jinghai District Baodi District Xiqing District Tianjin Eye Tianjin railway station Wanghailou Church Dabei Temple Quanyechang Five Great Avenues Nanshi Food Street Tianjin cuisine Peiyang University site Tianjin West railway station Dazhigu Ancient Culture Street Tianhou Palace Tianjin Drum Tower Tianjin Cantonese Guild Hall Tianjin Confucian Temple Tianjin Cultural Centre Tianjin Radio and Television Tower Binhai New Area Taku Forts Port of Tianjin Tanggu Dongli Lake Xiaozhan Dule Temple Mount Panshan North Canal Wuqing and Yangcun Ninghe Beichen Duli aged vinegar Yangliuqing Shi Family Courtyard Shawo radish Kite Wei

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A city read along one river

Tianjin.

The river, the concessions and the mountains beyond

Tianjin is best read along its water. The Hai River gathers five tributaries and reaches the sea at a single point, and that one channel made a canal port, a treaty port, nine foreign concessions and a ring of industrial districts. Far to the north, Jizhou is the only mountain country the municipality has. Between the two lie the salt flats, the rice plain and a town that has printed for the New Year for four centuries.

Tianjin Eye

Tianjin Eye

The Tianjin Eye stands at the centre of a road bridge over the Hai, the only Ferris wheel built into a bridge, and from the top the whole course of the river is visible.

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Begin with the classics

Four places open onto the river, the coast, the mountains and a workshop.

Five Great Avenues

Heping District

Five Great Avenues

Two thousand garden houses of mixed national styles, filled in with silt dredged from the Hai.

A photograph of Taku Fort dated 2006 shows the site as it appeared then.

Binhai New Area

Taku Forts

The river-mouth batteries that were fought over in 1858, 1859 and 1860, and opened as a museum in 1997.

Dule Temple

Jizhou District

Dule Temple

A Liao temple of 984 in the Jizhou district town, whose Guanyin Pavilion holds a clay figure 16.08 metres tall.

Look a little closer

Follow the water, the timber of a Liao hall, and the blocks of a print workshop.

  1. Five tributaries, three hundred streams, three different lengths, and a name first written down in 1613.

  2. A Liao temple of 984, an unrecorded Tang beginning, and what the 1976 Tangshan earthquake did to a sixteen-metre clay figure.

  3. Pear and jujube blocks, over-printing, hand colour, a banned subject and a craft that lost its blocks twice.

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  1. Tianjin Eyekele_jb1984 / CC BY-SA 2.0 · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
  2. Five Great Avenuesxiquinhosilva / CC BY 2.0 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
  3. A photograph of Taku Fort dated 2006 shows the site as it appeared then.Tippecanoe8 / Public domain · Public domain Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
  4. Dule TempleEditQ / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗