Qi County or Qixian () is a county of

Kaifeng Kaifeng () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China. It is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, and is best known for having been the Chinese capital during the Nort ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is a ...

, People's Republic of China, with an area of 1243 square km and a population of 1.05 million.

History

From

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 ...

Western Zhou The Western Zhou ( zh, c=, p=Xīzhōu; c. 1045 BC – 771 BC) was a royal dynasty of China and the first half of the Zhou dynasty. It began when King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye and ended when the Quanrong n ...

, Qi County was the place of the

State of Qi Qi, or Ch'i in Wade–Giles romanization, was a state of the Zhou dynasty-era in ancient China, variously reckoned as a march, duchy, and independent kingdom. Its capital was Linzi, located in present-day Shandong. Qi was founded sh ...

. In

Qin Dynasty The Qin dynasty ( ; zh, c=秦朝, p=Qín cháo, w=), or Ch'in dynasty in Wade–Giles romanization ( zh, c=, p=, w=Ch'in ch'ao), was the first dynasty of Imperial China. Named for its heartland in Qin state (modern Gansu and Shaanxi), ...

, Qi was named as Yongqiu ( Chinese: 雍丘). It was the site of the

Battle of Yongqiu The siege of Yongqiu (雍丘之戰, pinyin: ''Yōngqiū zhī zhàn'') was a siege for Yongqiu (current Qi County, Kaifeng) in 756 AD during the An Shi Rebellion, by the An Lushan rebels against the Tang army. The Tang army, led by Zhang Xun, f ...

in 756. In

Song Dynasty The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the res ...

, Yongqiu was renamed to Qi. Cai Wenji, a

Han Dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by th ...

poet and composer, was born shortly before 178 in Yu Prefecture (), Chenliu Commandery (), in what is now Qi County, Kaifeng, Henan.

Administrative divisions

Qi County has 8

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an or ...

and 13

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

. ;Towns: * (), Wulihe (), Fuji (), Yuzhen (), Gaoyang (), Gegang (), Yanggu (), Xingkou () ;Townships: * (), Zongdian (), Banmu (), Zhulin (), Guanzhuang (), Hugang (), Sumu (), Shahuo (), Pingcheng (), Nigou (), Shiyuan (), XIzhai (), Chengjiao ()

Climate

Notable people

Cai Yong Cai Yong (Chinese: ; 132–192), courtesy name Bojie, was Chinese astronomer, calligrapher, historian, mathematician, musician, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty. He was well-versed in calligraphy, music, mathematics and astrono ...

(132—192), musician and calligrapher of

. * Cai Wenji (177--?), poet and composer of Han Dynasty, Cai Yong's daughter. * Mu Qing (1921—2003), journalist, author and photographer.

References

External links

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Official website of Qi County government
{{authority control County-level divisions of Henan Kaifeng