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unusual facts about Gansu–Qinghai Sprachbund



2013 Dingxi earthquakes

By afternoon the two top leaders of Gansu Province, Communist Party secretary Wang Sanyun and Governor Liu Weiping, along with 1,800 police officers and local officials, had arrived in the earthquake-stricken area.

Abies chensiensis

Abies chensiensis, the Shensi fir, is a fir native to Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Abies fabri

Abies fabri is closely related to Abies delavayi and Abies forrestii, which replace it to the south and southwest respectively in southern Sichuan and Yunnan, and to Abies fargesii, which replaces it further north in Gansu.

Acer miaotaiense

miaotaiense (P.C.Tsoong) E.Murray) is a species of maple native to China, in southeastern Gansu, southwestern Henan, northwestern Hubei, southern Shaanxi, and Zhejiang.

Amdo

In 1928, the Ma Clique joined the Kuomintang, and during the period from 1928 to 1949, much of Amdo was gradually assimilated into the Qinghai province (and part of Gansu province) of the Kuomintang Republic of China.

Anxi

Guazhou County, formerly Anxi County, in Gansu province, central China

Black Bat Squadron

Flying for six and a half hours at low altitude in the dark, they arrived over the target and the sensor pallets were dropped by parachute near Anxi in Gansu province.

China National Highway 313

China National Highway 313 (G313) was a National Highway from Anxi (Guazhou), Gansu Province to Ruoqiang, Xinjiang.

Dorje Tashi

In 1989, Tashi moved to the Tibet Autonomous Region from Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu.

Duke Zhuang of Qin

King Xuan then awarded Qin the territory of Quanqiu (犬丘, also called Xichui, in present-day Li County, Gansu), formerly belonging to the senior branch of the House of Ying that was destroyed by the Rong, and Duke Zhuang moved the capital of the state from Qin (in present-day Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu) to Quanqiu.

Emperor Huizong of Song

A few years later (1141), as the peace negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Shaoxing between the Jin and the Song were proceeding, the Jin posthumously honored Huizong with the neutral-sounding title of Prince of Tianshun qun, after a commandery in the upper reaches of the Wei River (now in Gansu).

Emperor Shunzong of Tang

In 783, when a mutiny by soldiers from Jingyuan Circuit (涇原, headquartered in Pingliang, Gansu) forced Emperor Dezong to abandon Chang'an and flee to Fengtian (奉天, in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi), Li Song accompanied Emperor Dezong to Fengtian, and was said to have personally protected Emperor Dezong during the journey to Fengtian, along with his younger brother Li Yi (李誼) the Prince of Pu.

First Encirclement Campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet

After suffering a continuous series of defeat, the nationalists were forced to withdraw and called off their First Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet, and the communists declared their victory.

Fragaria pentaphylla

Fragaria pentaphylla is native to the Chinese provinces of Sichuan Qinghai Gansu Shanxi and Henan.

Gangou dialect

Gangou Mandarin is spoken in Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, at the very eastern tip of Qinghai, an area of the Gansu–Qinghai Sprachbund with a large minority population, and where even today Han Chinese were a minority in close contact with their neighbors.

Gansu Wind Farm

The Gansu Wind Farm Project is located in desert areas near the city of Jiuquan in two localities of Guazhou County and also near Yumen City, in the northwest province of Gansu, which has an abundance of wind resources.

Han Jinming

After he retired in 2000 Han immediately moved into youth management in Tianshui, Gansu where he impressed the Chinese Football Association who offered him a job as a scout and training lecturer for them.

Helian Ding

Upon hearing this, Helian Ding personally tried to intercept Qifu Mumo, who was forced to stop at Nan'an (南安, in modern Longxi, Gansu), with his territory having otherwise all fallen to Tuyuhun.

Huang Yupian

A native of Gansu province, he served as the magistrate of Qinghe (清河) county in Zhili (直隸) province, present day Hebei, from 1830.

Jigme Gyatso

On 5 November 2012 Jigme Gyatso was arrested by the Gansu Public Security Department on arriving in Hezuo from Lanzhou.

Jonê

Jonê County, an administrative district in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China.

Li Xun

Under his father Li Gao (Prince Wuzhao) and/or Li Xin, Li Xun successively served as the governor of Jiuquan (酒泉, roughly modern Jiuquan, Gansu) and Dunhuang Commanderies.

Low Wormwood

Low Wormwood (Simplified Chinese: 低苦艾) is a band from Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province.

Ma Buqing

Liangzhou District in Wuwei was previously his headquarters in Gansu, where he controlled 15 million Muslims.

Min Mountains

The Lazikou Pass, a site of strategical importance during the Long March, passes through the Min Mountains and connects northwestern Sichuan with southern Gansu.

Minqin County

Geographically, Minqin county occupies one of Gansu's panhandles, bordering in the north, east, and southeast on the Alashan League of Inner Mongolia.

Muslim groups in China

The Khafiya Sufi General Ma Anliang, especially hated the Yihewani leader Ma Wanfu, so much that when the Han general Yang Zengxin captured Ma Wanfu, Ma Anliang arranged to have him shipped to Gansu so he could execute him.

Neolithic signs in China

Dadiwan (5800–5400 BCE) is a Neolithic site discovered in Qin'an County, in the province of Gansu.

Princess Li Jingshou

When he was subsequently defeated and killed in 420 by the Northern Liang prince Juqu Mengxun, the Western Liang capital Jiuquan (酒泉, in modern Jiuquan, Gansu) fell to Northern Liang, and Princess Dowager Yin and Li Jingshou were captured.

Princess Meng

If it was Princess Meng, then she died in the Northern Wei capital Pingcheng (平城, in modern Datong, Shanxi) after Juqu Mujian's capital Guzang (姑臧, in modern Wuwei, Gansu) had fallen to Northern Wei forces and he had been taken captive, but she was still buried with honors due a princess.

Qijia

Qijia culture, early Bronze Age culture distributed around western Gansu and eastern Qinghai, China

Qin Zhong

The Xirong tribes that lived near Qin also rebelled, exterminating the senior branch of the House of Ying at Quanqiu (present-day Lixian in Gansu).

Rhododendron hunnewellianum

Rhododendron hunnewellianum (岷江杜鹃), named in honor of H. H. Hunnewell and Walter Hunnewell, is a rhododendron species native to southern Gansu and central and northern Sichuan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 1200–2400 meters.

Shen Changyin and Shen Changping

In June 2003, the Shen brothers began murdering prostitutes in Lanzhou, Gansu, China.

Shi Jinbo

After graduating in 1966, Shi joined a team researching the Western Xia caves at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in Gansu, and based on his translation of Tangut inscriptions in the caves he was able to identify a large number of caves as dating to the period during which Dunhuang was governed by the Western Xia regime (1036–1226).

Shiyang River

The catchment area of the Shiyang River covers about 41,600 km2, most of which lies within today's Wuwei prefecture-level city of the Gansu Province.

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

In his remote hideaway in the Chinese province of Gansu, the evil Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) plots the death and downfall of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, as the first step in his plan to become leader of the world's most terrible criminals.

Third Encirclement Campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet

After the failed Second Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi–Gansu Soviet in July, 1935, Chiang Kai-shek once again immediately mobilized more than 100,000 troops of warlords of Northeast China, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Suiyuan, Ningxia and Gansu to launch the Third Encirclement Campaign against ShaanxiGansu Soviet aimed to eradicate the local communists.

Turpan

The Tang Dynasty became weakened considerably after the An Lushan Rebellion and the Tibetans took the opportunity to expand into Gansu and the Western Regions.

Tuyuhun

After Tuyuhun died in Linxia, Gansu in 317, his sixty sons further expanded the empire by defeating the Western Qin (385-430) and Xia (407-431) kingdoms.

Xidagou Formation

The Xidagou Formation is an Middle Permian-age geologic formation in the Qilian Mountains of Gansu, China.

Zhang Zuo

The news leaked, however, and Zhang Guan turned his army against the capital Guzang (姑臧, in modern Wuwei, Gansu).

Zhangye

Located in the Nantaizi village of Nijiaying town, in Linzhe county of Zhangye, Gansu province is the China Danxia, a series of mountains laced with layers of reddish sandstone.


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