Li County or Lixian is an
administrative division
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
During the Republican era, many of China' ...
of
Longnan in southeastern
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
, a northwestern
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
China
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. The
2010 Chinese census found a population of 458,237, a decline of around 25,000 from the
year 2000
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but still placing it second in size within its prefecture.
[. Cited in ''Geohive''.]
China – Gansu Sheng
". 2013. Accessed 5 December 2013.
The
county seat
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is
also
Also or ALSO may refer to:
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* Alsó-Fehér County, a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary
* ALSO Gr ...
known as Lixian,
formerly romanized
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as Li Hsien. It is located at the confluence of the
Western Han
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and
Yanzi rivers
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, tributaries of the
Jialing and
Yangtze
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watersheds. Commanding a valley connecting the
Yellow
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and
Yangtze
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river systems, it was an important outpost of the
Shang
The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and f ...
and
Zhou dynasties
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and was the initial seat of the
Ying
Ying may refer to:
People
* Yíng (嬴), a Chinese surname, the ancestral name of Qin Shi Huang, first Emperor of China in the Qin Dynasty, and some contemporary rival royal families such as the Zhaos
* Yīng (应), a Chinese surname from the Z ...
family who later established the
kingdom
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* A monarchy ruled by a king or queen
* Kingdom (biology), a category in biological taxonomy
Kingdom may also refer to:
Arts and media Television
* ''Kingdom'' (British TV series), a 2007 British television drama s ...
and
empire of Qin.
Geography
Lixian is bordered within Longnan by the
counties
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of
Xihe to the east,
Wudu
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to the south, and
Tanchang to the west. The
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Dingxi
Dingxi (), also known as Longyou () is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Gansu province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,524,097 inhabitants, of which 422,383 lived in the built-up (or metro) area ...
and
Tianshui
Tianshui is the second-largest cities in Gansu, city in Gansu list of Chinese provinces, Province, China. The city is located in the southeast of the province, along the upper reaches of the Wei River and at the boundary of the Loess Plateau and ...
lie to the northwest and northeast, respectively.
Sir
Eric Teichman
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He was a son of Emil Teichmann and Mary Lydia Schroeter, and younger b ...
, the British diplomat and
orientalist, described the territory in 1916 before its modern development:
...the path rom Tianshuicrosses the Tsin-ling Shan, and passes from the basin of the Huang Ho
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into that of the Yang-tse by an easy pass. The south-eastern corner of Kan-su
Gansu (, ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kansu) is a provinces of China, province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative dis ...
, south of the Tsin-ling Shan range, differs greatly from the rest of the province. The bare loess
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Loess is a periglacial or aeolian ...
hills of Central Kan-su with their waterless valleys give way to jungle-covered mountains with abundance of water, and coolie
A coolie (also spelled koelie, kuli, khuli, khulie, cooli, cooly, or quli) is a term for a low-wage labourer, typically of South Asian or East Asian descent.
The word ''coolie'' was first popularized in the 16th century by European traders acros ...
transport takes the place of camel
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s, carts, and mule
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s. The people are in close touch with Sechuan.
The Liba
gold deposit () lies within the county limits.
Climate
Agriculture
Huaniu apples are a speciality agricultural product of the region.
History
Scientists from
Lanzhou University
Lanzhou University () is a major research university in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Founded in 1909, it is one of the key universities under China's Ministry of Education (Double First Class University Plan, former Project 985 and Project 211). It ...
have established that widespread agriculture began in Li County around 6,400
years ago as part of the
Banpo phase of the
Yangshao culture
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of the
Wei River
The Wei River () is a major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. It is the largest tributary of the Yellow River and very important in the early development of Chinese civilization.
The source of the Wei River is close to ...
valley. The warm, humid climate of the mid-
Holocene
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made the area productive for
millet
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prior to the drier conditions which began about 2000 BC.
[An C.B. & al. "Lanzhou University: Evolution of prehistoric agriculture in central Gansu Province, China: A case study in Qin'an and Li County", ''Chinese Science Bulletin'', Vol. 55, No. 18, pp. 1925 ff. (2010), excerpted in ''Issues in General Science and Scientific Theory and Method'', 2011 ed.]
p. 641
By the time of
ancient China
The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the reign of king Wu Ding. Ancient historical texts such as the '' Book of Documents'' (early chapte ...
, Lixian was part of the territory of Xichui (
lit. "the Western March").
[Li Feng. ''Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BC'']
pp. 264 ff
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge
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), 2006. Accessed 3 December 2013. During the
Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...
,
Zhongjue Zhongjue -- (), formerly romanized as Chung Chüeh -- was a figure in the legendary prehistory of China.
In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying made Zhongjue the great-great-grandson of ...
and his son
Feilian
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controlled Xichui from the midst of the area's
Rong
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Places China
*Rong County, Guangxi, Yulin, Guangxi, China
*Rong County, Sichuan, Zigong, Sichuan, China
Nepal
*Rong, Ilam, a rural municipality in Ilam District, Nepal
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*Rong, Norway, a village in Øygarden m ...
tribes. Feilian's son
Elai
Elai ({{zh, t=惡來, p=Èlái) was a bodyguard for King Zhou of the Chinese Shang dynasty. He was an ancestor of Feizi, the founder of the state of Qin. His brother Jisheng ( 季勝) was an ancestor of Zaofu, the founder of the state of Zhao. Acc ...
served
King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
Zhou as his bodyguard and was killed when King
Wu overthrew him and founded the
Zhou dynasty
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.
Sima Qian
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. ''Records of the Grand Historian
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'', Annals of Qin"br>Guoxue
Accessed 29 April 2012.
Under the Zhou, however, Elai's familythe
House of Ying
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Warring States period
In 771 BC, a coalition of feudal lords and the Western Rong tribes overthrew King You and drove the Zhou out of the Wei valley. During ...
continued to control the area. His great-great-grandson was
Daluo who had two sons by different mothers in the early 9th century BC.
[ Cheng, his son by the daughter of the Marquis of Shen, inherited Xichui and the other son, ]Feizi
Feizi (; died 858 BC), also known by the title Qin Ying, was the founder of the ancient Chinese state of Qin, predecessor of the Qin Dynasty that would conquer all other Chinese states and unite China in 221 BC.
Mythical origin of Qin
Accordi ...
, initially went without and served as his brother's horse breeder
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.[Han Zhaoqi. ''Annotated Shiji'', "Annals of Qin", pp. 345–346. Zhonghua Book Co., 2010. ISBN 978-7-101-07272-3.] His reputation grew to the point that King Xiao charged him with breeding and providing the imperial cavalry. He proved so successful that, when the Marquis of Shen blocked his inheritance of Daluo's estate, King Xiao created him lord of nearby Qin Qin may refer to:
Dynasties and states
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* Qin dynasty (秦), founded by the Qin state in 221 BC and ended in 206 BC
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(present-day Zhangjiachuan, Gansu).[ During the 842 BC ]Compatriots Rebellion
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, the Zhou king Li was overthrown at Hao and forced into a prolonged exile; the Rong took the occasion to attack and massacre Cheng's clan at Xichui. King Xuan named Feizi's great-grandson Qin Zhong commander over the Zhou expeditions against the Rong around 827 BC[ but the Rong killed him at Qin in 822. His son Zhuang and his four younger brothers successfully invaded the Rong lands with 7,000 Zhou soldiers and recovered both Qin and Xichui.][
At some point during ]Spring and Autumn period
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, barley
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and wheat
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were introduced into the area in addition to its traditional millet.[ Created a ]duke
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over Xichui, Zhuang moved his family's capital to the site,[ establishing the ]city
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of Quanqiu.[ When Zhuang died in 778 BC, his eldest son Shifu () refused to inherit official duties but chose instead to live a life on his ]chariot
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, fighting the Rong in revenge for his grandfather's death.[ His younger brother Xiang opted to marry his sister Mu Ying to King ]Feng Feng may refer to:
*Feng (surname), one of several Chinese surnames in Mandarin:
**Féng (surname) ( wikt:冯 féng 2nd tone "gallop"), very common Chinese surname
**Fèng (surname) ( wikt:鳳 fèng 4th tone "phoenix"), relatively common Chinese fa ...
of the Rong () and, the next year in 776 BC, he moved his capital from Quanqiu to Qian (, present-day Longxian in Shaanxi
Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see #Name, § Name) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichu ...
).[ Shifu led the defense of Quanqiu against the Rong who subsequently invaded. Overcome, he was captured and lived among the Rong for a year before being released.][ When the ]Quanrong The Quanrong () or Dog Rong were an ethnic group, classified by the ancient Chinese as " Qiang", active in the northwestern part of China during and after the Zhou dynasty (1046–221 BCE). Their language or languages are considered to have been me ...
overcame Hao in 771 and ended the Western period of the Zhou, Xiang was granted a promotion
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by King Ping
Ping may refer to:
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* Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933
* Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom
* Ping, a c ...
and no longer suffered subordinate status.[
Under the ]Qin Qin may refer to:
Dynasties and states
* Qin (state) (秦), a major state during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China
* Qin dynasty (秦), founded by the Qin state in 221 BC and ended in 206 BC
* Daqin (大秦), ancient Chinese name for the Roman Emp ...
and Han
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* Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group.
** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...
dynasties
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, it was part of Longxi Commandery Longxi Commandery ( Chinese: trad. , simp. , ''Lǒngxījùn'') was a commandery of imperial China in present-day Gansu, named due to its location west of Mount Long (the southern portion of Mount Liupan).
Qin dynasty
Establish ...
, headquartered at Didao (present-day Taoyang
Taoyang is a town and the county seat of Lintao County, Dingxi, Gansu, China. It is located centrally in Lintao at a junction of major roads.
The town relies mainly on agriculture, supported by favourable irrigation supply from the Tao River
...
in Lintao County
Lintao County ) is administratively under the control of Dingxi, Gansu province.
History
Until the 20th century, Lintao was known as Didao ().
The Battle of Didao was fought in the area in 255 CE, during the Three Kingdoms era.
In the 8th ce ...
). During the Northern Wei dynasty
Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei (), Yuan Wei () and Later Wei (), was founded by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of the Northern dynasties, it ruled northern China from 386 to 535 during t ...
, it was part of Hanyang Commandery, headquartered at Hanyang (present-day Tianshui
Tianshui is the second-largest cities in Gansu, city in Gansu list of Chinese provinces, Province, China. The city is located in the southeast of the province, along the upper reaches of the Wei River and at the boundary of the Loess Plateau and ...
). Under the Western Wei
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, this was changed to Hanyang County. During the Tang
Tang or TANG most often refers to:
* Tang dynasty
* Tang (drink mix)
Tang or TANG may also refer to:
Chinese states and dynasties
* Jin (Chinese state) (11th century – 376 BC), a state during the Spring and Autumn period, called Tang (唐) b ...
, Lixian was known as Changdao (, ) and was part of Qinzhou
Qinzhou ( postal: Yamchow, , Jyutping: ''Jam1 zau1'' (Canton) /''Ham1 zau1'' ( Local) ) is a prefecture-level city in south-central Guangxi, southern China, lying on the Gulf of Tonkin and having a total population of 3,302,238 as of the 2020 c ...
(), a province centered variously at Shanggui
Tianshui is the second-largest city in Gansu Province, China. The city is located in the southeast of the province, along the upper reaches of the Wei River and at the boundary of the Loess Plateau and the Qinling Mountains. As of the 2020 censu ...
(present-day Tianshui) and Chengji
Qin'an County () is a county in the east of Gansu province of the People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Tianshui. Its postal code is 741600, and in 1999 its population was 567,553 people. As of 2 ...
(present-day Qin'an).[Dudbridge, Glen. ''A Portrait of Five Dynasties China: From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880–956)'']
pp. 8 ff.
Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2013. Accessed 14 Dec 2013. The area was the home of the noted 10th-century memoirist Wang Renhui ().[ Li County was separated from Tianshui's jurisdiction during the ninth year of Chenghua (AD 1473) during the ]Ming dynasty
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.
Li County's loess
Loess (, ; from german: Löss ) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. Ten percent of Earth's land area is covered by loess or similar deposits.
Loess is a periglacial or aeolian ...
is prone to erosion and landslides. Amid the increasing collectivization of agriculture from 1964 to 1978, just seven flows damaged of farmland, destroyed 17,544 homes, and killed 1,142 people.
During the Cultural Revolution
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, the area received a bit of local notoriety for its flagging grain production. The "experiences of Li County" were used by regional officials to caution against implementation of Tachai-style collectivism in the mid-1970s. The collective farms in the area saw decreasing year-on-year yields of grain until, by 1976, all 29 of the county's communes
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, relig ...
were consuming more grain than they produced. This provoked official action, which denounced the complaints as "sabotage" and "poison", in the period between the fall of the Gang of Four and the rise of Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CC ...
's economic reforms.[The Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ]
Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East
', Vol. 3. "A Grain-deficient County in Kansu". BBC, 1977.
The area is also subject to earthquakes
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, with 25 recorded as having a magnitude
Magnitude may refer to:
Mathematics
*Euclidean vector, a quantity defined by both its magnitude and its direction
*Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object
*Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector
*Order of ...
of 5.0 or higher. The largest recorded was an 8.0-magnitude quake that struck on July 21, 1654; most recently, a 6.6-magnitude quake struck on July 22, 2013.
Administrative divisions
Present-day, Li County includes 22 towns
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and 6 townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
:
;Towns
-Towns are upgraded from Township.
-Towns are established newly.
-Former Towns are merged to other.
;Townships
-Former Townships are merged to other.
See also
* Dabaozishan Site and Graves
External links
Official website
References
{{authority control
County-level divisions of Gansu
Longnan