Yangshan County (
postal: Yeungshan; ) is a county in the northwest of
Guangdong Province
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, China, bordering
Hunan
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province to the north. It is under the administration of the city of
Qingyuan
Qingyuan, formerly romanized as Tsingyun, is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong province, China, on the banks of the Bei or North River. During the 2020 census, its total population was 3,969,473, out of whom 1,738,424 lived in the ...
.
A military camp was established in the area in the late Qin dynasty. It was Emperor Han Wu Di who formally recognized Yangshan as a county. A Tang dynasty poet, Han You (Chinese: 韓愈), visited it and wrote a poem about his journey, "The Travel Diary of Swallow Pavilion" (Chinese: < 燕喜亭記>).
In
Grand Theft Auto V
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, according to
Trevor Philips
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, Los Santos Triads leader Wei Cheng and his son Tao Cheng were born in Yangshan.
other information: according to local gazette of Guangdong ( 《 廣東史志> ), yangshan county is hometown of about six thousand overseas chinese, these overseas chinese settle in Malaysia, United States of America, etc.
Climate
References
County-level divisions of Guangdong
Qingyuan
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