Shuangfupu () is a

town 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 ori ...

in Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, China. It is surrounded by Laoliangcang Town and Hengshi on the west, Yujia'ao Township on the north, Dachengqiao Town and Zifu on the east, and Huitang Town on the south. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 36,374 and an area of .

Administrative division

The town is divided into seven villages and one community: * Shuangfupu Community () * Quanjing () * Huilongshan () * Maitian () * Yuxin () * Hexuan () * Sujiang () * Shuangming Village ()

Geography

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 ...

is known as "Mother River", a tributary of the

Xiang River The Xiang River is the chief river of the Dongting Lake, Lake Dongting Drainage basin, drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan, Hunan Province, China. It is the 2nd largest tributary (after Min River (Sichuan), Min River ...

, it flows through the town. Jindong Reservoir () is the largest reservoir and largest water body in the town.

Economy

The region abounds with

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Prunus mume ''Prunus mume'' is an East Asian and Southeast Asian tree species classified in the ''Armeniaca'' section of the genus ''Prunus'' subgenus ''Prunus''. Its common names include Chinese plum, Japanese plum, and Japanese apricot. The flower, long ...

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

and

watermelon Watermelon (''Citrullus lanatus'') is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it is a highly cultivated fruit worldwide, with more than 1,000 varie ...

are important to the economy. There are several shoe enterprises in the town, such as Jiemei (), Luge () and Fuqiang ().

Education

There is one

senior high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

located with the town limits: Ningxiang Fifth Senior High School ().

Culture

Huaguxi The flower-drum opera or Huaguxi () is a form of Chinese opera originating in Hunan province. Some other provinces, such as Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, also have Huaguxi. It is known in China for its earthy quality, and is often referred to as t ...

is the most influential local theater.

Transportation

The Provincial Highway S209 () from

Yutan Subdistrict Yutan Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, China. It borders Baimaqiao Subdistrict to the southwest, Chengjiao Subdistrict to the north and Lijingpu Subdistrict to the southeast. As of 2018, it has a population of 2 ...

, running through Shuangfupu Town, Hengshi Town, Laoliangcang Town, Liushahe Town, Qingshanqiao Town to Loudi City. The Provincial Highway S224 () runs northeast to Meitanba. The County Road X091 passes across the town east to west. The County Road X097 travels south to Huitang.

Attractions

Baiyun Temple is a

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temple on Huilong Mountain () built during the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

and later destroyed and rebuilt several times. The temple is where

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

carried out social research in 1917.

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lu ...

is the main target of worship along with the Three Saints of the West, the Ksitigarbha, and the twenty four Heavens.

References

{{Ningxiang Divisions of Hunan Divisions of Ningxiang

Ningxiang Ningxiang () is a county-level city and the 2nd most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changsha. The city is bordered to the north by Heshan Distric ...