Wushan County () is a

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in the east of

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. It is under the administration of the

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. Its postal code is 741300, and in 1999 its population was 418,648 people. The population in 2017 was 500,000 people.

History

Humans have inhabited the area since at least 38,000 years ago. The county was knows as Xinxing () during the

Eastern Han Dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by th ...

(188 AD). During the

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it was named Ningyuan (). Since the

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it holds the current name.

Administrative divisions

Wushan County is divided to 13 towns and 2 townships. ;Towns ;Townships * Zuitou Township() * Yan'an Township ()

Climate

Economy

Agricultural produce from Wushan are wheat, artichoke, flax, rapeseed, tomato, carrot,

Amaranth grain Species belonging to the genus ''Amaranthus'' have been cultivated for their grains for 8,000 years. Amaranth plants are classified as pseudocereals that are grown for their edible starchy seeds, but they are not in the same botanical family ...

, Codonopsis and

Angelica ''Angelica'' is a genus of about 60 species of tall biennial and perennial herbs in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching as far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Greenland. They gr ...

. Iron, copper and molybdenum mines are also present in the county.

Culture

;Cuisine Wushan food is a mix of Lanzhou, Sichuan and Tibetan cuisine. Specialities from the region are: * Donut shaped

Youtiao ''Youtiao'' (), known in Southern China as Yu Char Kway is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough of Chinese origin and (by a variety of other names) also popular in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines. Conventionally, ''youtiao ...

* Pork and beef hotpot * Barbecue

trout Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', '' Salmo'' and '' Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salm ...

Liangpi Liangpi () is a Chinese dish composed of cold skin noodles made from wheat or rice flour. It is a specialty dish originating from the cuisine of Shaanxi Province, but has now spread throghout all of China. In northwestern areas of China, it is of ...

* Dandan noodles * Jiaotuan: sticky corn-flour jelly * Jiangshui (): a kind of sour vegetable soup * Tianpei: Sweet

highland barley Highland barley, Tibetan barley or Himalayan barley ( Tibetan: ནས་; Wylie: nas; Chinese: ; qīngkē, or 藏青稞; zàng qīngkē) is the principal cereal cultivated on the Tibetan Plateau, used mainly to make tsampa and liquor ( chang). ...

dessert * Fried artichoke balls (): Deep-fried flour-artichoke balls * Sanfan (): glutinous flour soup with beans * Guanguan tea () – a kind of tea brewed with

rock sugar Rock candy or sugar candy, also called rock sugar, or crystal sugar, is a type of confection composed of relatively large sugar crystals. This candy is formed by allowing a supersaturated solution of sugar and water to crystallize onto a su ...

jujube Jujube (), sometimes jujuba, known by the scientific name ''Ziziphus jujuba'' and also called red date, Chinese date, and Chinese jujube, is a species in the genus '' Ziziphus'' in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. Description It is a smal ...

, Chinese wolfberry and

longan ''Dimocarpus longan'', commonly known as the longan () and dragon's eye, is a tropical tree species that produces edible fruit. It is one of the better-known tropical members of the soapberry family Sapindaceae, to which the lychee and rambu ...

in a clay pot on a fire.

History

Administrative divisions

Climate

Economy

Culture

References

See also