The last two share names with the long peninsulas where they are situated, which project into the Taiwan Strait to form large bays. There are also four townships : Nanpu, Chitu, Huxi and Chiling. The latter two are protected ethnic townships, both for the She people.
In Huxi She Township there is a fortified compound called Zhaojiabao, where a party of Southern Song royals in flight from the Mongol invaders of the late 13th century are said to have taken up a residence long in term and low in profile. With the Ming restoration of Han Chinese ethnic supremacy to the empire some ninety years and five generations later, the Zhao family revealed their pedigree and the compound received its current name. Zhaojiabao has its own exit right on the Shenyang—Haikou expressway, about 40 minutes south of downtown Zhangzhou. Another fortified compound, Yianbao, dating from the Kangxi era is located in the same Huxi She Autonomous Township as well. The ruins of the Liu'ao Fortress are located near the tip of the Liu'ao Peninsula. The fortress - a contemporary of the better known Chongwu Fortress in Hui'an County - was constructed in 1388 by the Hongwu Emperor's general Zhou Dexing.
''Tulou''
Although most of the famous Fujian Tulou are located in Fujian's interior, there are a few tulou structures in Zhangpu County as well. According to a 2001 survey of Fujian's tulou, out of the province's 3733 tulou known to the researchers, 125 were located within Zhangpu County. Among them were 60 round tulou, 48 rectangular ones, and 17 of other types. A characteristic feature of the tulou of Zhangpu County was the use of granite blocks for the lower part of the wall, as opposed to boulders/cobblestones which were used for a similar purpose in Fujian's interior. Although the local folk tradition may claim greater antiquity for some tulou elsewhere, several of the oldest tulou whose age is documented are located in Zhangpu county. According to Huang Hanmin, the oldest currently known construction date for any of China's tulou is 1558 - which is the date that appears above the main gate of Yidelou, a rectangular tulou in Makeng Village, Sui'an Town, Zhangpu County. It is a three-storey rectangular compound with walls 1.3 m thick; the compound is surrounded by an elliptic wall 1.6 m tall. It was damaged by bombs dropped from a Japanese aircraft in 1934. Several more tulou of comparable age are found within Zhangpu County as well. Merely two years "younger" than Yidelou is another three-storey rectangular tulou, Yiyanlou, located in Guotian Village of Xiamei Town, Yiyan Lou and dated 1560 by a similar door inscription. In Yuntou Village of the same town, Qingyunlou is dated 1569. Yanhailou in Tanzitou Village, Jiu Town dates from 1585, and the construction of Wanbilou, which is located inside the Zhaojiabao started in 1600. Out of the 56 "exemplary tulou" listed in Huang Hanmin's monograph, 6 are in Zhangpu County. One of them, Jinjiang Lou, located in Jinjiang village of Shentu Town, was built in 1791-1803, and consists of 3 concentric rings. It is one of the fewtulou located in the immediate proximity of Fujian's sea coast.
Notable people
Huang Daozhou, scholar and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty
