Yangcheng Lake Large Crab
Yangcheng may refer to the following locations in China: * Yangcheng County (阳城县), Jincheng, Shanxi * Yangcheng Lake (阳澄湖), in Suzhou * Yangcheng, Qingyuan County, Hebei (阳城镇), town * Yangcheng, Ruicheng County (阳城镇), town in Shanxi * Yangcheng, Yangshan County (阳城镇), town in Guangdong * Yangcheng (historical city) (阳城), close to Dengfeng in Henan *Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

Yangcheng County
Yangcheng County () is a county in the southeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering Henan Province to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jincheng and located in the latter's southwest confines. It is home to the AAAAA-rated House of the Huangcheng Chancellor. History In 2002, two EPB officials in Yangcheng County were sent to jail for failing to stop a chemical plant from putting toxic waste into the drinking-water system. Administrative divisions Climate Popular culture The movie '' Inn of the Sixth Happiness'' is based on the story of Gladys Aylward Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book ''The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward'', by Alan Burgess, published in 19 ...'s missionary activities in the county. References External links www.xzqh.org County-level divisions of Shanxi {{Sha ...
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Yangcheng Lake
Yangcheng Lake () is a freshwater lake in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, about northeast of the city center. The lake is long from north to south, with an average width of from east to west with a surface area of about , and ranges in depth from . Yangcheng lake is located between Lake Tai and the Yangtze River. It crosses the boundary between the Suzhou and the county-level cities of Changshu and Kunshan. The -long Yangcheng West Lake Tunnel (阳澄西湖隧道) runs underneath the lake, and the lake itself is served by both a mainline high-speed railway station Yangchenghu railway station and 2 stations of the Suzhou Metro system: Yangchenghu South station on Line 5 and Yangchenghu East on Line 11. The lake is the most famous native habitat for the Chinese mitten crab, which is considered a regional delicacy. The crabs migrate from Yangcheng Lake towards the Yangtze The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the w ...
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Yangcheng (historical City)
Yangcheng () was the first capital of the Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) of China. In ancient texts, the city was founded by Yu the Great (founder of the Xia), or was his residence. In the Bamboo Annals and '' Shiben'', Yangcheng was located near Mount Song and the Wudu and Ying rivers (close to modern Gaocheng, Henan). Archeology Yangcheng may be located at the '' Wangchenggang'' () site in Henan. In 1977, An Jinhuai ()Fang: page 111 excavated a small east-west oriented walled city at ''Wangchenggang''.;Fang: page 107 it is dated to the second period of the Longshan era, or approaching the start of the Xia.Fang: page 110 In 2002–2005, a larger walled city was discovered and radiocarbon dated as the earliest and largest Xia-period site at ''Wangchenggang''. An and Sun Zuoyun () believed the small city to be Yangcheng, and this interpretation remained popular through the rest of the 20th century. One criticism was that the city was too small to be a capital of a major stat ...
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Dengfeng
Dengfeng (; postal: Tengfeng) is a county-level city of Henan Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhengzhou. Dengfeng has an area of and a population of 630,000. It occupies the southwestern corner of Zhengzhou and is its westernmost county-level division. Dengfeng is located at the foot of the Mount Song, one of the most sacred mountains in China. The city is one of the most renowned spiritual centers of China, and is home to various religious institutions and famous temples such as the Taoist Zhongyue Temple, the Buddhist Shaolin Temple (a renowned center for martial arts), as well as the Confucian Songyang Academy and the Gaocheng Observatory, hence its poetic expression derived from Chinese literature as the spiritual "center of heaven and earth". Parts of the city were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010. History The first Xia dynasty capital, Yangcheng, was built west of Gaocheng Township on the Ying River u ...
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