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Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Pingding County is part of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, China, and is located in the Taihang Mountains in eastern Shanxi Province, with a total area of 1,394 square kilometers. As an important gateway to eastern Jin, Pingding is connected to Yu County in the north, Xiyang in the south, and Jingfu County in Hebei Province in the east, and has been a major transportation hub connecting Jin and Hebei provinces since ancient times.
Pingding has a long history, as early as in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the county has been set up, so far there have been more than 2,200 years of establishment history. It is the ancestral home of Wang Wei, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, and there are national key cultural relics protection units such as the Great Wall of Gu Guan and Niangziguan, of which Niangziguan is known as the "Ninth Pass in the World".
Pingding County is rich in mineral resources, coal reserves of 2.6 billion tons, is an important coal production base in Shanxi. In recent years, Pingding County has been actively developing ceramics, calcium-based new materials and other industries, as well as utilizing the natural scenery of the Taihang Mountains and red tourism resources to vigorously develop the eco-tourism industry.
Pingding retains a rich folk culture, such as Yazhou Drums, Wu Yazhou Drums and other traditional performing arts are listed in the national intangible cultural heritage. Pingding Sandware is the most famous specialty product, with a history of more than 1,300 years, and a reputation as the "best sandware in the world".
Le'an County belongs to Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, located in the western foot of Wuyi Mountain, since ancient times for the transportation hub of Gan and Fujian, is an important inheritance of Hakka culture. The Liukeng ancient village was built in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the 5th century, and has survived a thousand years of wind and rain, preserving more than 500 ancient buildings of Ming and Qing dynasties, such as ancestral halls, mansions, streets and lanes, etc., and the pattern of "high walls and deep alleys, green bricks and tiles" has been praised as the "first village of a thousand years of ancient times", and was selected as one of the first batch of China's traditional villages in 2012. In 2012, it was selected as one of the first traditional villages in China. In terms of natural resources, Dahuashan Mountain is famous for "majestic, strange, dangerous and beautiful", and the Jinzhu Waterfalls have a difference of more than 200 meters, with a very high concentration of negative oxygen ions, making it an ideal place for ecological recreation. In addition, Le'an flower pig, Nuo dance and other non-heritage culture is unique, both the historical sense of gravity and the beauty of natural ecology, is to explore the humanities and natural treasures of Gandong place.