Lushan County () is a county of
Sichuan Province
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China. It is under the administration of
Ya'an
Ya'an (, Tibetan: Yak-Nga ) is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province, China, located just below the Tibetan Plateau. The city is home to Sichuan Agricultural University, the only 211 Project university and the largest ...
city.
Historical Monuments
An ancient monument, located in Lushan County and dating to 205 AD of the
Eastern Han Dynasty
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, is the remains of the mausoleum of
Fan Min ().
[ (snippet view only on Google Books)] It is known as "Fan Min's
Gate Towers and Sculptures" (), and,
according to the archaeologist
Chêng Tê-k'un (1957), includes the earliest extant full-size
tortoise-born stele.
[. The author's name would be spelled Zheng Dekun in Pinyin.]
The stele has rounded top with a dragon design in
low relief
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- a precursor to the "two intertwined dragons" design that was very common on such steles even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, over a thousand years later.
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2013 earthquake
The earthquake was centered in the district and causing more than 100 deaths and property damage directly and indirectly by the quake and by landslides. In an immediate response, the People's Liberation Army sent about 8,000 soldiers to the impact site, as well as 1,400 provincial rescue workers and 120 support vehicles.
Climate
Notes
References
* (Posthumous publication, based on research done in 1909-1917)
County-level divisions of Sichuan
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