| Taihe County | |
| Other Name: | Taiho |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Coordinates: | 26.79°N 114.909°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jiangxi |
| Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
| Subdivision Name2: | Ji'an |
| Area Total Km2: | 2666 |
| Elevation M: | 57 |
| Elevation Ft: | 188 |
| Population Total: | 512225 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset1: | +8 |
| Postal Code: | 343700 |
| Area Code: | 0796 |
| Blank Name: | GDP (RMB) |
| Blank Info: | 4.692 billion |
| Website: | http://www.jxth.gov.cn/ |
Taihe County is a county of southwest Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, situated on the west (left) bank of the Gan River. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Ji'an, to the north-northeast.
Its area is almost the size of that of Rhode Island.[1]
์Nowadays, Taihe County consists of 16 towns and 6 townships.[2]
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The population of the district was in 1999.[3] [4]
According to recent archaeological discoveries, the history of Taihe County may date back to the western Zhou dynasty.Readers of English who are interested in this county should read John W. Dardess, A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). The book was preceded by a number of articles about the county, including John W Dardess, "A Ming Landscape: Settlement, Land Use, Labor, and Estheticism in T'ai-ho County, Jiangxi," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49.1 (1989): 295-364.
Its famous landmark is K'uai-ko Pavilion, which Huang Tingjian wrote about.[1]
One of the most famous local products of Taihe County is Gallus domesticus, called "Taihe Wuji" in Chinese.