Chongwu
Town () is a
township-level division of
Hui'an County,
Quanzhou
Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...
Prefecture-level city,
Fujian Province,
China
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.
Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peninsula jutting into
Taiwan Strait. The town's historical center, the Old Chongwu Fortress (, ''Chongwu Gu Cheng'') is a walled city dating to the late 14th century (
Hongwu Emperor
The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (), courtesy name Guorui (), was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398.
As famine, plagues and peasant revolts in ...
's reign; the conventional date is 1384). The traditional Hui'an County
vernacular architecture, making heavy use of the local granite, is largely preserved within the walled city.
A large sculpture park is located on the narrow strip south of the fortress, between the city wall and the beach.
A memorial hall and a
small temple (
解放军庙) on the beach just west of town commemorate an engagement between the PLA infantry and the Nationalist air force that took place here in 1949.
A significant amount of hospitality establishment, from luxury to budget hotels, are located outside the walled city.
Chongwu's eastern peninsula, extending east of central Chongwu into
Taiwan Strait, contains a number of fishing and farming villages. Toward the east, the peninsula is split in two by the scenic Ben Ji An Bay (). A Neolithic archeological site, Dazuoshan (), is found on the "north fork" of the peninsula.
Climate
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Fujian
This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Fujian, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative division ...
References
Township-level divisions of Fujian
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