Dingzhou

Dingzhou is a city in the Hebei province of China. Dingzhou is in Baoding prefecture, about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang and had a population of 131.992 in 1999. China's tallest pre-modern pagoda, the 84 m tall Liaodi Pagoda, is located here, built in the year 1055 during the Song Dynasty. In 1973 a tomb was excavated near Dingzhou dating to 55 BCE and containing several fragments of Chinese literary works, including an early manuscript of the Analects of Confucius.