Xia County or Xiaxian () is a county in the southwest of
Shanxi
Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...
province,
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
, bordering
Henan
Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...
province to the southeast. It is under the jurisdiction of
Yuncheng City.
History
In ancient China, it served as the previous capitals of the
Xia dynasty
The Xia dynasty (; ) is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography. According to tradition, it was established by the legendary figure Yu the Great, after Emperor Shun, Shun, the last of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Fiv ...
and the
Wei kingdom, and was previously known as Mingtiao. It was the site of the
Battle of Mingtiao, which took place in about 1600 BCE.
A notable site in the county is Sima Wengong Temple (), the family home and burial place of
Sima Guang, a Song dynasty historian.
Climate
See also
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List of administrative divisions of Shanxi
References
County-level divisions of Shanxi
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