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Longchuan County, Guangdong
Longchuan County ( postal: Lungchun; , Hakka: ''Liùngchôn'') is a county of northeastern Guangdong province, China, bordering Jiangxi to the north and on the upper reaches of the Dong and Han Rivers. It is under the administration of Heyuan City, and in 2004 had a population of 870,000 living in an area of . Bordering county-level divisions are Xingning and Wuhua County to the east, Heping County and Dongyuan County to the south and west, and in Jiangxi, Dingnan County and Xunwu County to the north. Administrative divisions Longchuan administers 24 towns: * Laolong () * Sidu () *Huangshi () * Xi'ao () * Chetian () * Beiling () * Liju () * Shanping () * Fengren () * Chiguang () * Longmu () * Huilong () * Tianxin () * Tiechang () * Dengyun () * Tongqu () * Heshi () * Huangbu () * Zishi () * Tuocheng () * Yanzhen () * Xintian () * Yidu () * Mabugang () Transport Longchuan has a developed highway and railway network. Major roads include the China National Highway 205 (G205 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County (People's Republic Of China)
Counties ( zh, t=縣, s=县, hp=Xiàn), formally county-level divisions, are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in Provinces and Autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and City districts. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. The term ''xian'' is sometimes translated as "district" or "prefecture" when put in the context of Chinese history. History ''Xian'' have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin Dynasty. The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han Dynasty, the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xunwu County
Xunwu County () is a county in the far south of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Fujian to the east and Guangdong to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou. It was the focus of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, 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 List of national founde ...'s 1930 essay ''Report from Xunwu'' which surveyed conditions in the region and related them to Mao's developing theory of Chinese communism. Administrative divisions Xunwu County has 7 towns and 8 townships. ;7 towns ;8 townships Climate References Ganzhou County-level divisions of Jiangxi {{Jiangxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huilong, Heyuan
Huilong () is a town of central Longchuan County in northeastern Guangdong province, China, situated northeast of the county seat. , it has one residential community () and 14 villages under its administration. See also *List of township-level divisions of Guangdong This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative div ... References Township-level divisions of Guangdong {{Guangdong-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longmu
In Chinese mythology, Longmu (), transliterated as Lung Mo in Cantonese, was a Chinese woman who was deified as a goddess after raising five infant dragons. Longmu and her dragons developed a strong bond for each other and have thus become an example of filial devotion and parental love, an important virtue in Chinese culture. Legend Longmu's historic name was Wen ShiIn ancient China, many females were not given a formal name and were referred to outside of their family as " urnameShi", meaning "of the urnamefamily". (). She was born in 290 BC (during the Qin Dynasty) in Guangdong province, near the Xi River (). Her family's ancestral home was in the Teng County () in Guangxi province. She was the second of three daughters of Wen Tianrui () and Liang Shi (). Wen Shi frequently went to the Xi River to fish and wash clothes for her family. On one such errand, she found a large smooth white stone along the banks of the river. She took the beautiful stone home, but later discove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
