Longnan, Jiangxi

Longnan

龙南市
Lungnan
Longnan 龙南市 Lungnan
County-level city
	, a Hakka walled village
	Location within Jiangxi
	Coordinates: 25°54′38″N 114°47′10″E / 25.9106°N 114.786°ECoordinates: 25°54′38″N 114°47′10″E / 25.9106°N 114.786°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangxi
Prefecture-level city	Ganzhou
Postal Code	341700

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.

Administrative divisions[]

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

8 towns

Longnan (龙南镇)
(武当镇)
(杨村镇)
(汶龙镇)

(程龙镇)
(关西镇)
(里仁镇)
(渡江镇)

5 townships

(桃江乡)
(东江乡)
(临塘乡)

(南享乡)
(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 (围屋) or wei (围);^[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[]

Famous people from Longnan[]

Wang Sheng, a Kuomintang general, and in his later life, Taiwan's ambassador to Paraguay

Notes[]

^ "南京市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c Chen Liang, Another cluster of Tulou in Longnan of Jiangxi bordering Fujian. China Daily. Published on www.whatsonxiamen.com on 2008-07-19
^ Knapp, Ronald G. (2000), China's old dwellings, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 275–277, ISBN 0-8248-2214-5
^ 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)

External links[]

Longnan Official Website (in Chinese)

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[1] "南京市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.

[xiamen-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)

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