Wuxuan County
Wuxuan County
武宣县 · Vujsenh Yen | |
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 Wuxuan Old Street | |
  Wuxuan Location of the seat in Guangxi | |
| Coordinates: 23°35′38″N 109°39′47″E / 23.594°N 109.663°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guangxi |
| Prefecture-level city | Laibin |
| County seat | Wuxuan Town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,739 km2 (671 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 340,312 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Wuxuan County (Chinese: 武宣县; pinyin: Wǔxuān Xiàn; Zhuang: Vujsenh Yen) is a county in the east-central part of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Laibin.
During the Cultural Revolution, the county was the site of pitched battles between rival factions. The investigative journalist Zheng Yi wrote of these battles and cases of cannibalism of members of the fallen faction in his book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China.[1]
Administrative divisions
[edit]Wuxuan County is divided into 9 towns and 1 township:[2]
- towns
- Wuxuan 武宣镇
- Tongling 桐岭镇
- Tongwan 通挽镇
- Dongxiang 东乡镇
- Sanli 三里镇
- Ertang 二塘镇
- Huangmao 黄茆镇
- Luxin 禄新镇
- Siling 思灵镇
- township
- Jinji 金鸡乡
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Wuxuan (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 28.8 (83.8) |
32.7 (90.9) |
34.0 (93.2) |
35.7 (96.3) |
35.7 (96.3) |
37.7 (99.9) |
39.4 (102.9) |
38.7 (101.7) |
39.0 (102.2) |
36.6 (97.9) |
32.8 (91.0) |
30.4 (86.7) |
39.4 (102.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.7 (60.3) |
17.9 (64.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
26.2 (79.2) |
30.0 (86.0) |
31.7 (89.1) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.3 (91.9) |
31.9 (89.4) |
28.6 (83.5) |
23.9 (75.0) |
18.5 (65.3) |
25.9 (78.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) |
13.9 (57.0) |
16.9 (62.4) |
22.2 (72.0) |
25.8 (78.4) |
27.7 (81.9) |
28.6 (83.5) |
28.5 (83.3) |
26.9 (80.4) |
23.4 (74.1) |
18.6 (65.5) |
13.6 (56.5) |
21.5 (70.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 8.9 (48.0) |
11.1 (52.0) |
14.2 (57.6) |
19.2 (66.6) |
22.6 (72.7) |
24.8 (76.6) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.2 (77.4) |
23.4 (74.1) |
19.6 (67.3) |
14.9 (58.8) |
10.1 (50.2) |
18.3 (64.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 0.0 (32.0) |
0.4 (32.7) |
1.3 (34.3) |
7.3 (45.1) |
11.9 (53.4) |
17.5 (63.5) |
19.1 (66.4) |
20.6 (69.1) |
15.0 (59.0) |
8.5 (47.3) |
3.5 (38.3) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 55.4 (2.18) |
44.5 (1.75) |
82.4 (3.24) |
108.8 (4.28) |
200.8 (7.91) |
248.5 (9.78) |
189.6 (7.46) |
164.3 (6.47) |
92.3 (3.63) |
52.9 (2.08) |
49.0 (1.93) |
38.7 (1.52) |
1,327.2 (52.23) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 9.9 | 11.0 | 15.5 | 13.5 | 15.6 | 17.5 | 16.3 | 15.0 | 9.6 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 145.1 |
| Average snowy days | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 74 | 76 | 80 | 78 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 80 | 76 | 72 | 72 | 70 | 76 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 67.4 | 57.9 | 49.7 | 87.1 | 138.1 | 149.9 | 200.5 | 194.3 | 179.3 | 173.5 | 134.6 | 112.1 | 1,544.4 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 20 | 18 | 13 | 23 | 34 | 37 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 41 | 34 | 35 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ Zheng (1996).
- ^ 2023年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：武宣县 (in Simplified Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
References
[edit]- Zheng, Yi (1996). Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China. edited and translated by T. P. Sym. With a Foreword by Ross Terrill. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 081332615X.
Further reading
[edit]- Sutton, Donald S. (January 1995). "Consuming Counterrevolution: The Ritual and Culture of Cannibalism in Wuxuan, Guangxi, China, May to July 1968". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 37 (1). Cambridge University Press: 136–172. doi:10.1017/S0010417500019575. JSTOR 179381. S2CID 145660553.
External links
[edit]Media related to Wuxuan at Wikimedia Commons
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