Jimo, Qingdao
district of Qingdao, Shandong, China
Jimo District (Chinese: 即墨区; pinyin: Jímò Qū), formerly Jimo City (即墨市), is a District of Qingdao, Shandong.
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 12.9 °C (55.2 °F), and average annual precipitation is 693.7 millimetres (27.31 in).
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 dragons. 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.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q713349. Authority coordinates are 36.383, 120.467. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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