Mount Jigong
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Mount Jigong () is a mountain in Shihe District,
Xinyang Xinyang (; postal: Sinyang) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Henan province, People's Republic of China, the southernmost administrative division in the province. Its total population was 6,234,401 according to the 2020 census. As of t ...
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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 al ...
Province, China, located near the border with
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...
Province to the south. The name, which means Rooster Mountain or Cockerel Mountain, is derived from its shape. It used to be a summer retreat for Western missionaries and, later, for Communist officials.Ian Johnson
China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined
New York Review of Books, 22 November 2012
From 1898 to 1936, over 300 villas of various styles were built on the mountain by foreign missionaries of different countries and the area became a famed summer resort. It is 38 km from downtown Xinyang.


Climate

Mount Jigong has a humid subtropical climate (
Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
''Cwa'').


References

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Jigong Ji Gong (, 22 December 1130 – 16 May 1209), born Li Xiuyuan and also known as "Chan Master Daoji" () was a Chan Buddhism, Chan Bhikkhu, Buddhist monk who lived in the Southern Song. He purportedly possessed supernatural powers, which he used ...
Tourist attractions in Henan Xinyang