Fate () is a

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within the

county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...

Shulan Shulan ( zh, s=舒兰 , t=舒蘭 , p=Shūlán) is a county-level city in northern Jilin province, Northeast China. It falls under the administration of Jilin City, to the south-southwest. Administrative divisions Shulan is divided into 5 subd ...

, in the north of

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Province in Northeast China. It is located on the right (eastern) bank of the

Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea border through China's northe ...

, west of downtown Shulan, and north of the prefectural capital of

Jilin City Jilin City, Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kirin (, International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA:/ki.rin/) is the second-largest city and former capital of Jilin province in northeast China. As of th ...

. According to the local government, the town occupies ; as of 2003, its population was 38,105, most of which (35,654) is rural population.法特镇人民政府
(Fate Town's People's Government), on the site of the Shulan City Government. It was formerly organised as a

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().

Economy

Fate Town is primarily agricultural. There are 9,000 hectares of cropland there (5,000 ha dry fields and 4,000 ha rice paddies). Annual production of rice is 38,000 tons, and of maize (corn), 50,000 tons. Fruits (1,000 tons a year) and vegetables are grown as well, and animal husbandry and aquaculture are important.

History

During the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

, the so-called Outer

Willow Palisade Willow Palisade (; mnc, m=, v=Biregen Jase, ᠠ=Biregen Jase) was a system of ditches and embankments that was planted with willows, was intended to restrict movement into Manchuria (including Northeast China and Outer Manchuria), and was built ...

, separating the Mongolian and Manchurian lands to the west and east respectively, ended near Fate. A local historical site is the so-called "Yellow Fish Circle" (黄鱼圈, ''Huang Yu Juan''; ): a large round pool with stone walls constructed during the Qing dynasty, and used to store live sturgeon (the

Amur sturgeon The Amur sturgeon or Japanese sturgeon (''Sinosturio schrenckii'') is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae found in the Amur River basin in China and Russia. They migrate outwards to the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. The species ...

and

Kaluga sturgeon The kaluga (''Sinosturio dauricus''), also known as the river beluga, is a large predatory sturgeon found in the Amur River basin from Russia to China and near Hokkaido in Japan. With a maximum size of at least and , the kaluga is one of the bi ...

黄鱼圈的故事
(The story of the Yellow Fish Circle) ), considered a delicacy by the Manchu Qing Emperors. The fish, caught in the Sungari River in the spring and summer, was kept in the pool until winter, when it became possible to ship it, frozen, to the imperial court in Beijing without being spoiled on the way. The pool has been described as being 500 m in circumference and over a ''

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'' (around 3.3 m) deep; other sources claimed somewhat greater sizes, some 50,000-60,000 square meters in area and 5 meters deep. The present name of the site, 黄鱼圈 (''Huángyú juān'', literally "Yellow Fish Circle"), is said to be a corruption of the original homophonic 鳇鱼圈 (''Huángyú juān'',

Circle).Standard dictionaries translate "黄鱼" (literally, "Yellow fish") as a variety of croaker, but that makes no sense in the situation, as croaker is a sea fish, and not a freshwater fish, while 鳇鱼 is indeed the

External links

法特镇
(Fate Town) on Hudong.com

References

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