Jimo District (), formerly Jimo City (), is a
District of
Qingdao
Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...
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Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
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Location
Jimo is located in the southwest of the
Shandong Peninsula, bordered by the
Yellow Sea on the east and
Mount Lao on the south.
Climate
Jimo has a moderate
monsoon climate. The yearly average temperature is about , and average annual precipitation is .
History
Jimo was established in the Eastern
Zhou Dynasty, at which time it was the second largest settlement in Shandong. The Siege of Jimo in 279 BC, otherwise unremarkable, is remembered for the ruse that ended it.
Tian Dan was a general of the
State of Qi who had just lost 70 cities to the
Yan. When Jimo, their penultimate city, was under fire, he collected more than 1,000 oxen, tied sharp daggers to their ears, tied straw to their tails, and dressed them in colourful cloth to make them look like
dragon
A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...
s. At dead of night the Qi set the tails alight and drove the oxen towards the enemy camp. The panicking enemy soldiers were wiped out, and the Qi regained all the lost cities.
German Colony and the Siege of Tsingtao
On the 6th of March, 1898, the city of Tsimo (Jimo) became part of the
Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory was a German colonial empire, German leased territory in Qing dynasty, Imperial and Republic of China (1912–1949), Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914. Covering an area of , it centered on Jiaozhou Ba ...
. By the time of the
First World War, the Germans had set up a small outpost in Tsimo, which on the 13th of September, 1914, was taken by advancing Japanese cavalry during the
Siege of Tsingtao.
After its capture, Japanese cavalry and engineers alongside the 23rd Infantry Brigade would arrive at Tsimo on the 18th of September. During the siege, an airfield was built and by the 21st of September, Japanese Army
Nieuport IV.Gs began operating from Tsimo in an unsuccessful attempt to bomb the German airfield and destroy the lone
Rumpler Taube. After the end of the war, the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory (along with Tsimo) was ceded to Japan and returned to the Chinese in 1922.
Administrative divisions
As 2017, this district is divided to 8 subdistricts and 7 towns.
;Subdistricts
;Towns
Tourism
Aoshan Bay and
Tian-Heng Island are its main tourism resources.
Transport
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Line 11 (Qingdao Metro)
References
Official website
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Aoshan Bay
Geography of Qingdao
County-level divisions of Shandong
Districts of China
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