Banzai () is a town in

Pinghe County Pinghe County () is a county of the prefecture-level city of Zhangzhou, in southern Fujian province, PRC, bordering Guangdong province to the west. Administrative Division The administrative centre or seat of Pinghe County is Xiaoxi (). Towns ...

in the south of

Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

province,

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. It lies on the Huashan River () about 40 minutes' drive from the county seat of Xiaoxi.

Culture & Tourism

The town is known as the boyhood home of 20th Century

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author and

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References

Township-level divisions of Fujian Pinghe County {{Fujian-geo-stub