Dingzhou
Dingzhou
Định Châu thị | |
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 Dingzhou skyline seen from Shuohuang Railway | |
 Location in Baoding | |
  Dingzhou Location in Hebei | |
| Coordinates:38°30′58″N114°59′24″E/ 38.516°N 114.990°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hebei |
| Prefecture-level city | Baoding |
| Area | |
| •County-level city | 1,283.7 km2(495.6 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 53.00 km2(20.46 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 58 m (189 ft) |
| Population (2017) | |
| •County-level city | 1,249,000 |
| • Density | 970/km2(2,500/sq mi) |
| •Urban | 414,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+8(China Standard) |
| Postal code | 073000 |
| Area code | 0312 |
| License Plate Prefix | Ký F |
| Website | www |
| Dingzhou | |||||||||
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| Chinese | Định Châu | ||||||||
| Postal | Tingchow | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | [Seat of]Ding( "Orderly" )Prefecture | ||||||||
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| Former names | |||||||||
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| Lunu | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | Lư nô | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | Lư nô | ||||||||
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| Boling | |||||||||
| Chinese | Bác lăng | ||||||||
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| Dingxian | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | Định huyện | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | Định huyện | ||||||||
| Postal | Tingsien | ||||||||
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Dingzhou,orTingchowinPostal Map Romanization,and formerly calledDing CountyorDingxian,is acounty-level cityin theprefecture-level cityofBaoding,Hebei Province.As of 2009, Dingzhou had a population of 1.2 million. Dingzhou has 3subdistricts,13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township.[2]Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding andShijiazhuang,196 kilometers (122 mi) southwest ofBeijing,and 68 kilometers (42 mi) northeast of Shijiazhuang.
History
[edit]Dingzhou was originally known asLunuin earlyimperial China.[3]A tomb about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) southwest of Dingzhou from 55BCE was discovered and excavated in 1973. It contained several fragments ofHan literature,includingmanuscriptsofConfucius'sAnalects,theTaoistWenzi,and theSix Secret Teachings,a military treatise. The identity of the tomb's occupant is unknown, but Chinese archaeologists have speculated that it belonged toLiu XiuorXu Xing.[4]
Dingzhou took its present name around 400CE when it became the seat ofDing Prefectureunder theNorthern Wei,displacing the earlierAn Prefecture.[3]In the mid-6th century, its territory held 834,211 people living in 177,500households.[3]Under theSui,the seat ofBoling Commanderyat present-dayAnpingwas renamed "Gaoyang". In 607, Dingzhou then became the eponymous seat of a newBolingcommanderyand retained that name and status under theTang[5]until it returned to the name Dingzhou between 621 and 742 and again after 758.[3]Its territory held only 86,869 people in 25,637 households in 639 but recovered to 496,676 people in 78,090 households by 742.[3]
In 1055, under theSong,the city became the home of the 84-meter-tall (276 ft)Liaodi Pagoda,which is today China's tallest surviving pre-modernpagoda.
Under theearly Republic,it was known asDingxian(then romanized"Tingsien" or "Ting Hsien" ) from its status as the seat ofDing County.From 1926 to 1937, the county was the site of theNational Association of Mass Education Movement'sTing Hsien Experimentof theRural Reconstruction Movement.In the 1990s, theNew Rural Reconstruction Movementmaintained a training and outreach center.
Administrative divisions
[edit][2] Towns:
- Qingfengdian(Thanh phong cửa hàng trấn),Dongting(Đông đình trấn),Liqingu(Lý thân cố trấn),Mingyuedian(Minh nguyệt cửa hàng trấn),Daxinzhuang(Đại tân trang trấn),Xingyi(Hình ấp trấn),Zhuanlu(Gạch lộ trấn),Liuzao(Lưu sớm trấn),Pangcun(Bàng thôn trấn),Gaopeng(Cao bồng trấn),Ziwei(Tử vị trấn),Dingningdian(Dặn dò cửa hàng trấn),Dongwang(Đông vượng trấn),Kaiyuan(Khai nguyên trấn)
Townships:
- Dongliuchun Township(Đông lưu xuân hương),Zhoucun Township(Chu thôn hương),Daluzhuang Township(Đại lộc trang hương),Yangjiazhuang Township(Dương gia trang hương),Zhaocun Township(Triệu thôn hương),Xicheng Township(Tây thành hương),Xizhong Township(Tức trủng hương),Haotouzhuang Hui Ethnic Township(Số trang hồi tộc hương)
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Dingzhou (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.0 (62.6) |
23.1 (73.6) |
30.5 (86.9) |
34.0 (93.2) |
38.3 (100.9) |
41.0 (105.8) |
42.0 (107.6) |
37.8 (100.0) |
35.2 (95.4) |
32.1 (89.8) |
24.9 (76.8) |
21.0 (69.8) |
42.0 (107.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.9 (37.2) |
7.0 (44.6) |
14.2 (57.6) |
21.4 (70.5) |
27.2 (81.0) |
31.6 (88.9) |
31.9 (89.4) |
30.3 (86.5) |
26.5 (79.7) |
20.0 (68.0) |
10.9 (51.6) |
4.3 (39.7) |
19.0 (66.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.8 (27.0) |
1.0 (33.8) |
7.8 (46.0) |
15.1 (59.2) |
21.0 (69.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
27.0 (80.6) |
25.5 (77.9) |
20.6 (69.1) |
13.7 (56.7) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
13.2 (55.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −7.4 (18.7) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
2.2 (36.0) |
9.1 (48.4) |
14.9 (58.8) |
19.8 (67.6) |
22.5 (72.5) |
21.4 (70.5) |
15.9 (60.6) |
8.8 (47.8) |
0.9 (33.6) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
8.3 (46.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.6 (−1.5) |
−17.3 (0.9) |
−8.5 (16.7) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
4.3 (39.7) |
10.8 (51.4) |
16.1 (61.0) |
13.0 (55.4) |
5.4 (41.7) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
−19.5 (−3.1) |
−19.5 (−3.1) |
| Averageprecipitationmm (inches) | 2.2 (0.09) |
4.8 (0.19) |
9.1 (0.36) |
23.5 (0.93) |
33.0 (1.30) |
57.8 (2.28) |
142.6 (5.61) |
113.2 (4.46) |
47.5 (1.87) |
24.2 (0.95) |
12.0 (0.47) |
2.0 (0.08) |
471.9 (18.59) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.6 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 8.3 | 11.4 | 10.3 | 6.9 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 64.3 |
| Average snowy days | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 10.7 |
| Averagerelative humidity(%) | 55 | 51 | 49 | 53 | 57 | 61 | 75 | 79 | 74 | 68 | 65 | 58 | 62 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 160.4 | 172.0 | 219.4 | 235.2 | 264.9 | 229.7 | 190.5 | 194.5 | 195.9 | 181.1 | 156.8 | 155.2 | 2,355.6 |
| Percentpossible sunshine | 53 | 56 | 59 | 59 | 60 | 52 | 42 | 47 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
[edit]Dingzhou is one of the transportation hubs inNorth China.
Railroads
[edit]- Jingguang railway:Dingzhou Railway Station
- Jingshi Passenger Railway:Dingzhou East Railway Station
- Shuohuang Railway:Dingzhou South Railway Station
Highways
[edit]Places of interest
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- Liaodi Pagoda:The tallest existing pre-modern Chinese pagoda
- Dingzhou Confucius Temple:A well-preserved Confucius temple in Hebei
See also
[edit]- Shengyou,a village in Dingzhou
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^abMinistry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development,ed. (2019).China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017.Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 46. Archived fromthe originalon 18 June 2019.Retrieved11 January2020.
- ^abĐịnh Châu thị - khu hành chính võng
- ^abcdeXiong (2017),"Dingzhou".
- ^Asian History
- ^Xiong, Victor Cunrui (2017),"Boling",Historical Dictionary of Medieval China,Lanham:Rowman & Littlefield, p.69,ISBN9781442276154.
- ^Trung Quốc khí tượng số liệu võng – WeatherBk Data(in Simplified Chinese).China Meteorological Administration.Retrieved25 August2023.
- ^ Trung Quốc khí tượng số liệu võng(in Simplified Chinese).China Meteorological Administration.Retrieved25 August2023.
Bibliography
[edit]- Sidney D. Gamble,Foreword by Y.C. James Yen. Field work directed by Franklin Ching-han Lee.Ting Hsien, a North China Rural Community(New York: International Secretariat Institute of Pacific Relations, 1954; rpr Stanford University Press, 1968). xxv, 472p. 54009009. Sociological survey conducted in the 1920s and early 1930s.
External links
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