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Foochow Romanized
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: ''Kŭ-chèng Gâing'') is a county lying in the northeastern
Fujian
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province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of
Ningde
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City and is located in the southwest part of the municipality. It is also known as "the town of the former worthy", as
Zhu Xi
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, a famous Chinese scholar once lived there. It is also known as Kutien or Kucheng.
*Area:
*Population: 429,463
History
The county was set up in the
Tang Dynasty
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by Liujiang in 741 AD. Since
Zhuxi, one of the famous scholars in China, lived there, it is also called "the town of the former worthy."
In 1895 the county was the site of a
massacre of Christian missionaries.
Geography
The
Min River (Fujian)
The Min River (; Foochow Romanized: ''Mìng-gĕ̤ng''; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-kang; Kienning Colloquial Romanized: Ma̿ing-gó̤ng) is a -long river in Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is the largest river in Fujian, and an important ...
runs through Gutian, covering a distance of .
Climate
Scenic Areas
There are a number of scenic areas in Gutian.
* The thousand-year-old
Auspicious Tower ().
* The
Xishan Academy of Classical Learning (), where
Zhuxi once taught.
* The
Linshui Palace ().
* The
Temple of Paradise ().
* The
Green Screen Lake ().
Subdivision
Gutian has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 7 villages. It has a total population of 430,000.
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Shanyang Town Shanyang may refer to the following locations in China:
*Shanyang County (山阳县), county in Shaanxi
** Shanyang Formation (山阳组), geological formation
*Shanyang District (山阳区), Jiaozuo, Henan
*Huai'an District, Jiangsu, formerly Shan ...
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Hetang town ()
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Daqiao Town ()
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Pinghu Town ()
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Xincheng Town ()
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Huangtian Town ()
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Fengdu Town
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Shuikou Town
Shuikou may refer to:
*Shuikou, Meizhou, a town in Xingning City, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, China
*Shuikou, Yanling, a town in Yanling County, Huzhou, Hunan Province, China
* Shuikou, Gutian, a town in Gutian County, Ningde, Fujian Province, C ...
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Dajia Village
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Zhuoyang Village ()
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Jixiang Village ()
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Songji Village ()
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Hubin Village {{disambig
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*Hubin (Buczacz County) - village in 19th Century in Buczacz County, today in Ukraine
Chinese places
*Hubin District (湖滨区), - a district of Sanme ...
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Panyang Village ()
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Fengpu Village ()
Agriculture
Gutian county is known as "The Land of Fungi" (). Fungal exports include snow fungus (''
Tremella fuciformis'') () and
shiitake
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(''Lentinula edodes'') (). Other exports include
perch
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carp
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honey peaches (), reddish slab stones () and
Younai plums ().
Communications and public works
Gutian's transportation systems include railways, highways and seaways. Waifu () Railway is long. Abundant water resources have led to the building of the first national underground hydropower station,
Gutian Xishui Hydroelectric Power Station, which has the largest volume in
East China
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A concept abolished in 1978, for economical purposes the region was defined from 1949 to 1961 by the Chinese Central Governme ...
.
Miscellaneous
Gutian is the original home of many countrymen residing abroad. The number of overseas Chinese from this area amounts to more than 200,000, many now resident in
Sitiawan
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The region spans an area of . In the year 2000, the populatio ...
,
Perak
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in Malaysia. It is also a "national model county", which is famous for its culture, physical education and broadcasting TV programs.
See also
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Kucheng Massacre
The Kucheng massacre (; Pinyin: ''Gǔtián Jiào'àn''; Foochow Romanized: ''Kŭ-chèng Gáu-áng'') was a massacre of Western Christians that took place at Gutian (at that time known in the west as ''Kucheng'') Fujian, China on August 1, 1895. At ...
References
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County-level divisions of Fujian
Ningde