Ruicheng County is located in the Shanxi

Shanxi

' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....

 province of China

China

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. The town of Ruicheng has the following features:

Yongle Gong

Yongle Gong (Palace of Eternal Joy), is a Taoist temple

Temple

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out...

 noted for the wall paintings inside its three main halls. It was moved to Ruicheng in 1959 to preserve it when the Sanmenxia Dam

Sanmenxia Dam

The Sanmenxia Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the middle-reaches of the Yellow River near Sanmenxia on the border Shanxi and Henan Province, China. The dam is multi-purpose and was constructed for flood and ice control along with irrigation, hydroelectric power production and navigation....

 was built, putting the town of Yongle, the previous location of the temple, under water. The temple is 4 km north of the town on the main road.

Yellow River

The Yellow River

Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He, formerly known as the Hwang Ho, is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into...

 lies just south of Ruicheng. A pumping station

Pumping station

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 on the river doubles as a monument

Monument

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 to Yu the Great

Yu the Great

Yu the Great , was a legendary ruler of Ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by founding the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character....

, the legend

Legend

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ary figure credited with controlling the course of the Yellow River and saving many lives in the process.

Food

Apples are to be found in abbundance in Ruicheng, being the most popular variety of fruit

Fruit

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grown by local farmers.