Taihe County, Jiangxi
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Taihe County () is a county of southwest
Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...
province, People's Republic of China, situated on the west (left) bank of the Gan River. It is under the jurisdiction of the
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Ji'an Ji'an () is a prefecture-level city situated in the central region of Jiangxi province of the People's Republic of China while bordering Hunan province to the west. It has an area of and as of the 2020 census, had a population of 4,469,176, of ...
, to the north-northeast. Its area is almost the size of that of
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Administrative divisions

์Nowadays, Taihe County consists of 16 towns and 6 townships. ;16 towns ;6 townships


Demographics

The population of the district was in 1999. Government of Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, China - 2008 Period, ''in'
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History

According to recent archaeological discoveries, the history of Taihe County may date back to the western Zhou dynasty. Readers of English who are interested in this county should read John W. Dardess, ''A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). The book was preceded by a number of articles about the county, including John W Dardess, "A Ming Landscape: Settlement, Land Use, Labor, and Estheticism in T'ai-ho County, Jiangxi," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 49.1 (1989): 295-364.


Education


Culture

Its famous landmark is K'uai-ko Pavilion, which Huang Tingjian wrote about.


Famous Local Products

One of the most famous local products of Taihe County is Gallus domesticus, called "Taihe Wuji" in Chinese.


Climate


Scenery


Notes and references


Further reading

* * Qian Hang (), . 上海社会科学院出版社, 1995 (
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