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unusual facts about Leifeng, Hunan


Lei Feng

Born in Wangcheng, Hunan (near the town of Leifeng, Changsha, Hunan, named in his honour), Lei was orphaned at an early age.


Baishi Town

Baishi, Xiangtan, an urban town in Xiangtan County, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

Battle of Sanhe

In August, 1858, the Taiping Army took Luzhou (庐州), modern day Anhui, and the Imperial governor of Hunan-Guangdong Guam Wing (官文) ordered Li Xubin to counter attack by taking the cities and towns of Tongcheng, Shucheng, and Taihu (太湖).

Beihai

The name of the city means "north of the sea" in Chinese, signifying its status as a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin, which has granted it historical importance as a port of international trade for Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.

Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Central and Southern China

Communists mobilized 63 divisions totaling over 41,000 troops and an additional 60,000 militia in the Central and Southern China Military Region to fight the local bandits in the regions including western Henan, western Hubei, southern Jiangxi, northeastern Jiangxi, western Hunan, southern Hunan, western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, Pearl River Delta, western Guangxi, southeastern Guangxi and the border region between Hubei, Anhui and Henan.

Central Plains War

Battles in the north were generally in Henan and Shandong and battles in the south were mainly in the area of Yuezhou, Changsha and Hunan province.

China Health and Nutrition Survey

The study population is drawn from the nine provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, and Shandong.

Convex-tailed horned toad

The convex-tailed horned toad (Xenophrys caudoprocta) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family, endemic to China, and is only known from the type locality, Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi County, in Hunan.

Criticism of Yahoo!

Yahoo! Holdings (the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo) told the Chinese government that the IP address used to send the email was registered by the Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for.

Dao-xuan

Dao-xuan was born in Hunan Province in 702, and ordained at an early age in the Vinaya school in China (律宗) at Dafu (大福) temple in Loyang.

Encirclement Campaign against Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet

The communist Southeastern Huan Independent Division guarding the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet deployed its 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment to strike Pingxiang, Jiangxi and Yichun, Jiangxi, and its 3rd Regiment was ordered to southeastern Hunan to join up with the Chinese Red Army 7th Army from Guangxi, which by then had reached the border region of Guangdong and Hunan provinces.

Fenshui Township

Fenshui, Xiangtan, a rural township in Xiangtan County, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

Fu Nai

Fu Nai (AD 1758-1811) was a statesman who made himself famous by his skillful treatment of the aborigines of Hunan.

GAC Fiat

The Changsha assembly plant was officially opened on 28 June 2012, in a ceremony attended by Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne and representatives of Hunan and Guandong provinces.

Gao Yu

In any case, by 896, when Ma had just been commissioned the acting military governor of Wu'an Circuit (武安, headquartered in modern Changsha, Hunan) (which would eventually form the foundation block for the Chu state) by then-reigning Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Ma employed Gao as his chief strategist.

Gregory Grassi

On July 4, a mob attacked the Franciscan mission in Hengyang (southern Hunan), murdering one of the friars, Cesidio Giacomantonio, and burning the mission to the ground.

Hanchang

Yueyang, Hunan Province, China - anciently called Hanchang

Hiragana

Nü Shu, a syllabary writing system used by women in China's Hunan province

Hồng Bàng Dynasty

Originally, the northern border stretched to the southern part of present-day Hunan, and the southern border stretched to the Cả River, including parts of modern Kwangsi, Kwangtung, and Northern Vietnam.

Hunan cuisine

Hunan cuisine, also known as Xiang cuisine, consists of the cuisines of the Xiang River region, Dongting Lake, and western Hunan province in China.

Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet

The range also nestled the famous Jinggangshan redoubt of the anti-Rightist troops of the abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927.

Language and gender

Nüshu script, a syllabic script used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province, China

Leifeng

Lei Feng (雷锋; 1940–1962), Chinese Communist propaganda symbol

Liang Heng

During his studies at the Hunan Teachers' College in Changsha he met Judith Shapiro, an American teacher.

Luoyang–Zhanjiang Railway

The rail corridor runs through four provinces and one autonomous region—Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong—and is designed to facilitate the shipment of goods from the Chinese interior to the Port of Zhanjiang.

Ma Xifan

The officers, headed by Yuan Quan (袁詮) and Pan Yue (潘約), welcomed Ma Xifan, who then carried the title of military governor of Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi — an honorary title as at that time, Zhennan was a Wu possession) and who was the defender of Lang Prefecture (朗州, in modern Changde, Hunan), to Changsha.

Mao Yichang

After the monarchy was overthrown and rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty in 1368, Mao Taihua married a woman in Yunnan, in 1380 bringing her to Hunan, settling in Xiangxiang county.

Mao Zejian

Mao Zejian (毛澤建) (October 1905–20 August 1929) was a cousin of Mao Zedong, who was executed by the Kuomintang in Hengshan, Hunan.

Maojia dialect

) is a mixed variety of Chinese language spoken by about 200,000 people of Au Ka (Aoka 奥卡) Miao ethnicity in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County in the southwest of Hunan, and in Ziyun, Longsheng County, Guangxi.

Miluo East Railway Station

The Miluo East Railway Station is a railway station located in Hunan, China.

Mo Yingfeng

Mo served as the vice president of Hunan Writers Association and Hunan Literature and Art Association.

My Father and I

In his absence, Xiao Yu graduates from high school and begins her university studies, and begins living with her boyfriend, a hot-tempered student from Hunan.

Princeton in Asia

Summer of Service ("SOS") is an annual English immersion program held during the summer at the Normal College of Jishou University in Jishou, Hunan, China.

Qingshanqiao Town

Qingshanqiao, Xiangtan, an urban town in Xiangtan County, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

Qingshanqiao, Ningxiang, an urban town in Ningxiang County, Changsha City, Hunan Province

Rana sangzhiensis

It is known only from Mount Tianping, in Sangzhi County, Hunan (the type locality), and from Mount Dadong in Lianxian County, Guangdong.

Shaozhou Tuhua

In Hunan it is found in the southeast, throughout most of Yongzhou prefecture (apart from Qiyang County in the northeast) and the western half of Chenzhou prefecture.

Shaozhou Tuhua (traditional: 韶州土話; simplified: 韶州土话 Sháozhōu Tǔhuà "Shaoguan tuhua"), or simply Tuhua, is an unclassified Chinese language spoken in the border region of the provinces Guangdong, Hunan and Guangxi.

Sichuanese Mandarin

This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.

Tai–Kadai ethnic groups in China

The Cao Miao people of Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi Provinces speak a Kam–Sui language called Mjiuniang, although it is believed that the people are of Hmong–Mien descent.

Taoyuan County

Taoyuan County, Hunan (桃源县), county of Changde, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Wu Guangxin

In 1916 Wu was given the task to reestablish northern military control over Yuezhou in northern Hunan.

Wu River

Wu River (Yuan River, south) is also a tributary of the Yuan River in Hunan, joining the Yuan in Hongjiang downstream of the other Wu River.

Wushi Town

Wushi, Xiangtan, an urban town in Xiangtan County, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

Yueyang East Railway Station

The Yueyang East Railway Station (Chinese: 岳阳东站) is a railway station located in Hunan, China.

Zhili–Anhui War

In April 1920, while visiting a memorial service at Baoding for soldiers who died in Hunan, one-time presidential-candidate Cao Kun added more warlords to the anti-Anhui clique alliance, including the rulers of Hubei, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhili.

Zhu Yunzhong

Zhu Yunzhong (born 1933; in Changsha, Hunan), is a descendant of the Hongwu Emperor and an heir to the Ming Dynasty.

北山

Beishan, Changsha County, town in Hunan Province, People's Republic of China


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