Deqing County, Zhejiang
Deqing
德清县 Tehtsing | |
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Mount Mogan, near the eponymous town in the western part of Deqing County | |
Deqing Location of the seat in Zhejiang | |
Coordinates: 30°32′33″N 119°58′39″E / 30.54251°N 119.977401°ECoordinates: 30°32′33″N 119°58′39″E / 30.54251°N 119.977401°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Zhejiang |
Prefecture-level city | Huzhou |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Deqing (help·info) (Chinese: 德清县; pinyin: Déqīng Xiàn) is a county in the prefecture-level city of Huzhou, in the northwest of Zhejiang province.
Geography[]
Located in the middle of the plain between the Hangzhou Bay and the Taihu, most of Deqing County is flat, criss-crossed by numerous canals. The western end of the county is mountainous. There, the popular tourist areas of Moganshan is located. Moganshan is a scenic mountain, an hour from Hangzhou, with many pre-World War II villas built by foreigners, along with one of Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang compounds.
Zisiqiao (子思桥) Village, located within Deqing County's Xinshi Town, is renowned as a center of snake farming. The locals have been raising snakes since the 1980s; currently, about 800 people in Zisiqiao work in snake farming industry, raising some three million snakes a year. Live snakes are supplied to specialty restaurants; dried or preserved in alcohol, they are sold to manufacturers of traditional Chinese medicines; snake-infused wine is made as well.[1][2] The village is nicknamed "Snake Village" by the media, and Deqing Snake Culture Museum is a local tourist attraction.[1][3]
Administrative divisions[]
Towns:[4]
- Wukang (武康镇), (乾元镇), Xinshi (新市镇), (洛舍镇), (新安镇), (雷甸镇), Zhongguan (钟管镇), Yuyue (禹越镇), Moganshan (莫干山镇)
Religion[]
Yunxiu Temple is a Buddhist temple in Xiazhuhu Subdistrict.
Transportation[]
Deqing has two railway stations, normal trains serve through , which located on the Xuancheng–Hangzhou railway, with fairly frequent, although not particularly fast, passenger service to Hangzhou and Hefei.[5] High speed trains serve Deqing railway station, on the Nanjing-Hangzhou high-speed railway.
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b China's 'Snake Village' seeks New Year riches, AFP, 2013-02-10
- ^ 世界第一蛇村:800人与300万条蛇的神奇生活 [World's No. 1 Snake Village: mysterious life of 800 people and over 3 million snakes]. Sina Travel. 2010-10-21.
- ^ 蛇文化博物馆可以让你看得“头皮发麻 [Snake Culture Museum will make your hair stand on end]. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "湖州市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
- ^ Deqing West schedule (in Chinese)
- Deqing County, Zhejiang
- County-level divisions of Zhejiang
- Huzhou