Pinghe County Explained

Pinghe County
Other Name:	Pinghwo; Pingho
Settlement Type:	County
Pushpin Map:	China Fujian
Pushpin Label:	Pinghe
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Fujian
Coordinates:	24.3634°N 117.3149°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	People's Republic of China
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Fujian
Subdivision Type2:	Prefecture-level city
Subdivision Name2:	Zhangzhou
Unit Pref:	Metric
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone1:	China Standard
Utc Offset1:	+8

Pinghe County is a county of the prefecture-level city of Zhangzhou, in southern Fujian province, PRC, bordering Guangdong province to the west.^[1]

Administrative Division

The administrative centre or seat of Pinghe County is Xiaoxi (Chinese: 小溪镇).

Towns (镇, zhen)

Most of Pinghe's old People's communes, after spending the 80s and even 90s as Townships, have been upgraded to Towns. There are ten towns:^[2]

Xiaoxi (Chinese: 小溪 Sió-khe)
Wenfeng (Chinese: 文峰 Bûn-hong)
Shange (Chinese: 山格 Soaⁿ-keeh)
Nansheng (Chinese: 南胜 Lâm-sèng)
Banzai (Chinese: 坂仔 Póaⁿ-á)
Anhou (Mandarin Chinese: 安厚 Ānhòu, Hokkien Chinese: 庵后 Am-āu)
Daxi (Chinese: 大溪 Tōa-khe)
Jiufeng (Chinese: 九峰 Kiú-hong)
Xiazhai (Mandarin Chinese: 霞寨 Xiázhài, Hokkien Chinese: 下寨 Ēe-chēe)
Luxi (Chinese: 芦溪 Lô͘-khe)

Townships (乡, xiang)

There are five townships:

Wuzhai (Chinese: 五寨 Gō͘-chēe)
Guoqiang (Chinese: 国强 Kok-kiâng, originally Chinese: 高坑 Ko-kheng)
Qiling (Chinese: 崎岭 Kiā-niá)
Changle (Chinese: 长乐 Tióⁿ-lo̍h)
Xiufeng (Chinese: 秀峰 Siù-hong)

Climate

Notable people:Chen, yi fei(陳義飛)： scholar and senior official of Ming dynasty(AD 1368-AD 1644)

Lai, ching te(賴清德)： president of Republic of China, president born in Taiwan, his great-great grandfather migrated to Taiwan from Ping he county.

Economy

Pinghe County is famous for its pomelos.

Tulou

Numerous Fujian Tulou, earth buildings of round, rectangular and other shapes, can be found within Pinghe County, primarily in its western part (viz., various villages of Luxi, Xiazhai, Jiufeng and Daxi Towns). One of them, the Xishuang Lou (Chinese: 西爽楼), located in Xi'an Village a few kilometers north of Xiazhai town center, has been described by some researchers as the "largest of the rectangular [tulou] in existence". Unfortunately, only parts of the compound have survived to this day.