Jonê County (also ''Cone'', ''Chone'', ''Choni''; ; local pronunciation: /tɕɔ^Ln�

) is an administrative district in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,

Gansu Province 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 Tibeta ...

, China. It is one of 58 counties of Gansu. It is part of the

Gannan Prefecture Gānnán Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; ) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu, Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east and Ngawa Tibetan and Q ...

. Its postal code is 747600. Its area is , and its population is over 100,000 people. It is administered from Liulin.Dorje (2009), p. 812.

Description

The county covers both banks of the middle section of the Lu-chu. The country town and adjacent

Jonê Monastery Chone Monastery (Tibetan: Wylie: ; Chinese: Jonê; Pinyin: Zhuōní), also Chone Gonchen Ganden Shedrubling, or Choni Monastery was originally a Sakya monastery. It is situated adjacent to Liulin, Jonê County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefec ...

are on the north bank. The side valleys on the southern side used to be branches of the ancient kingdom of Jonê.

Historical Tibetan Yang Surname Zhouni Tusi

Among Tibetan at Amdo, Jonê exist The Zhouni Tusi (), ruled by the Tibetan Ga clan or Mandarin Chinese

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() clan, was a

Tusi ''Tusi'', often translated as "headmen" or "chieftains", were hereditary tribal leaders recognized as imperial officials by the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties of China, and the Later Lê and Nguyễn dynasties of Vietnam. They ruled certain et ...

chiefdom kingdom called Zhouni Kingdom, Choni Kingdom, or Jonê Kingdom ruled by the Gatsang (dga' tshang) family at Tibet. In 1404, whereupon they informed the Ming Emperor Yongle of this fact and were recognized as local rulers, and were given a seal of authority and the surname Yang (). The Yangs ruled Zhouni from 1404 until 1949.Tibetan Historical Polities

retrieved 19 Aug 2017

List of Kings of Jonê

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History

:"There are traditions of Tibetan soldiers left behind fter the late 10th centuryat several border outposts, such as Jonê, where they established viable settlements, and of the remaining Tibetan conscript troops, called the Wun Mo, carving out considerable territory for themselves until they were perhaps absorbed into that amalgam of people of Tibetan stock, which came to form the

Hsi Hsia Kingdom The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (), officially the Great Xia (), also known as the Tangut Empire, and known as ''Mi-nyak''Stein (1972), pp. 70–71. to the Tanguts and Tibetans, was a Tangut-led Buddhist imperial dynasty of China tha ...

(982—1224)." Jonê was part of a separate kingdom formed, according to legend, after its invasion by warriors who migrated across the mountains from Szechuan conquering the local tribes in 1404. The contemporary descendants of the Jonê royal line claim that their line is Tibetan, and that their ancestors migrated from central Tibet through Sichuan. The

Yongle Emperor The Yongle Emperor (; pronounced ; 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424), personal name Zhu Di (), was the third Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424. Zhu Di was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dyn ...

(May 2, 1360 – August 12, 1424) named one of these invading warriors hereditary chief (''

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'') called Zhouni Tusi (), bestowing the family name of "Yang" ("") and an imperial seal upon his line. The Jonê king (co-ne rgyal-po) established a palace on the north bank of the Tao River. The family holding the Yang seal continued to rule over 48 Tibetan clans in Jonê as an autonomous kingdom from the early 15th century for 23 generations, until 1928, when it was placed under the control of the

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government. In the late Qing Dynasty and Republican Period, many nomadic regions had considerable ''de facto'' independence, despite the claims and perspective of the Chinese rulers. Among the six monasteries in the county, all of them Tibetan

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establishments, is the great

. The American botanist Joseph Rock spent almost 2 years in Jonê ("Choni", in his spelling) in 1925–26. He resided in the compound of the local chief (the 19th-generation ''

'' Yang Jiqing ()), making it the base for his exploration of southern Gansu and eastern

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. His account of the culture of this "almost unknown Tibetan principality", as he described it, illustrated with color photographs, was published in the ''

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''.Michael Woodhead, ''In the footsteps of Joseph Rock''. Chapter 10,
Seeking the Mountains of Mystery: Travels to Choni and Amnye Machen
. As of 2012, Jonê was apparently closed to foreign visitors.

Administrative divisions

Zhuoni County (卓尼县) is divided to 11 towns 3 townships and 1 ethic townships. ;Towns: ;Townships: * Daogao Township () * Qia'gai Township () * Kangduo Township () ;Ethic Townships: * Shaowa Tu Township ()

Climate

Footnotes

References

*Cabot, Mabel H. (2003). ''Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia, 1921-1925'', pp. 148–157. Aperture Publishers in association with the Peabody Museum, Harvard. . *Dorje, Gyurme (2009). ''Footprint Tibet Handbook''. Footprint Publications, Bath, England. . *Ekvall, Robert B. (1939). "Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border", University of Chicago.
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