Qinyang () is a

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 ...

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, China, bordering

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 to the north. It is administered by the

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Jiaozuo Jiaozuo ( zh, s= , p=Jiāozuò ; postal: Tsiaotso) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Henan province, China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yellow River, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the south, Xinxiang to th ...

. The current population of Qinyang is estimated at 470,000. In 1999, the population stood at 444,480.

History

Qinyang was known as ''Yewang'' () during the

Qin dynasty The Qin dynasty ( ) was the first Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China. It is named for its progenitor state of Qin, a fief of the confederal Zhou dynasty (256 BC). Beginning in 230 BC, the Qin under King Ying Zheng enga ...

, changed to ''Henei'' county () during the Sui, and served as the capital seat of Huaizhou during the Tang, Hwai-king (Hwaiking) Foo () under the Qing, and received the current name in 1913.

Geography

Location Located between 112'46'~113°02' east longitude and 34°59'~35°18' north latitude, Qinyang which lies in the northwest of

Province occupies a total area of 623.5 square kilometers. It was beside the

Yellow River The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...

in the late 19th century, but the river's floods have since moved it further south. Qinyang is now located along the Zhan (, ''Zhànhé''), a tributary of the

. A part of the

Taihang Mountains The Taihang Mountains () are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces. The range extends over from north to south and has an average elevation of ; its principal peak is ...

called the Shennong Mountain is in the rural area of Qinyang City. The southeast of Qinyang City is 128 kilometers away from

Zhengzhou Zhengzhou is the capital of Henan, China. Located in northern Henan, it is one of the nine National central city, national central cities in China, and serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational center of the province. Th ...

, the provincial capital, 90 kilometers away from

Luoyang Luoyang ( zh, s=洛阳, t=洛陽, p=Luòyáng) is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zheng ...

in the east and 36 kilometers away from

in the east.

Terrain

here are many plains in the territory, , and the rest are mountainous and hilly areas. The north is Taihang Mountain, the south is overlooking the

, and the mountains and plains coexist. The terrain is generally high in the northwest and low in the southeast. From north to south, there are three types of mountains, hills and plains. The famous mountain peaks include Zijin Mountain (commonly known as Xiaobeiding), Yuntai Mountain, Yunyang Mountain and Yangshan, all of which belong to the tail of the Taihang Mountains. Among them, Zijin Mountain and Yuntai Mountain are above 1,100 meters above sea level.

Climate

Qinyang City is a warm temperate continental climate with four distinct seasons, dry and windy springs, hot and rainy summers, warm and cool nights in autumn, and cold and dry in winter. The annual average temperature is . The highest temperature is , the lowest temperature is . The seasonal temperature changes obviously. The average temperature in spring is , the average temperature in summer is , the average temperature in autumn is , and the average temperature in winter is . The annual average precipitation is , of which the winter precipitation is the least, the average precipitation is , accounting for 4.9% of the whole year; the spring precipitation is slightly more, the average precipitation is , accounting for 17.3% of the whole year, and the precipitation in autumn is more, averaging , accounting for 25.6% of the whole year; the summer precipitation is the most, the average precipitation is , accounting for 52.2% of the whole year; the annual maximum precipitation is , the minimum precipitation is , and the precipitation is concentrated in seven, eight and nine. Three months, the intensity of precipitation is large, often causing floods. The average annual frost-free period is 210 days.

Administrative divisions

, this county is divided to 4 subdistricts, 6 towns and 3 townships. ;Subdistricts ;Towns ;Townships * Changping Township () * Wangqu Township () * Wangzhao Township ()

Notable individuals

Li Shangyin, one of the most outstanding poets of the late Tang dynasty, is from Huaizhou Hanoi (now Henan Qinyang). Zhu Zaiyu, a famous musician, born in the Ming dynasty Wang Gong (now Henan Qinyang), is Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's eighth generation.

References

External links

Government website
{{authority control Cities in Henan County-level divisions of Henan Jiaozuo