Longnan,_Jiangxi

Longnan, Jiangxi

Longnan, Jiangxi

County-level city in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China


Longnan (simplified Chinese: 龙南; traditional Chinese: 龍南; pinyin: Lóngnán) is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou Municipality, in the far southwest of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Guangdong province to the south.

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Administrative divisions

In the present, Longnan City has 8 towns and 5 townships.[1]

8 towns
  • Longnan (龙南镇)
  • Wudang (武当镇)
  • Yangcun (杨村镇)
  • Wenlong (汶龙镇)
  • Chenglong (程龙镇)
  • Guanxi (关西镇)
  • Liren (里仁镇)
  • Dujiang (渡江镇)
5 townships
  • Taojiang (桃江乡)
  • Dongjiang (东江乡)
  • Lintang (临塘乡)
  • Nanxiang (南享乡)
  • Jiahu (夹湖乡)

Traditional vernacular architecture

Longnan is notable for the variety of traditional Hakka walled villages in Jiangxi.[2] [3] By one count, there are around 370 of them within the city's boundaries.[2] They are known locally as weiwu () or wei ();[2] Longnan is also regarded as "the Hometown of Weiwu in China" 新华网-客家围屋之乡. Some of the most famous weiwu are Guangxi Wei 百度百科-关西围屋 and Yanyiwei.关西围屋与燕翼围 Some researchers call them "Jiangxi tulou" (literally, "[tall] earthen buildings"), as opposed to the better known Fujian tulou.[4]

Climate

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Famous people from Longnan


Notes

  1. "南京市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
  2. Chen Liang, Another cluster of Tulou in Longnan of Jiangxi bordering Fujian. China Daily. Published on www.whatsonxiamen.com on 2008-07-19
  3. Knapp, Ronald G. (2000), China's old dwellings, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 275–277, ISBN 0-8248-2214-5
  4. Huang Hanmin (黄汉民) (2009), 福建土楼-中国传统民居的瑰宝 [Fujian Tulou: a jewel of China's traditional residential architecture], Sanlian Books (三联书店), p. 114, ISBN 9787108031754 (Revised edition)
  5. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 28 June 2023.



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