Xinxing County
Xinxing County, alternately romanized as Sunhing,[lower-alpha 1] is a county of the prefecture-level city of Yunfu in the west of Guangdong province, China.
Xinxing
新兴县 Sunhing | |
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  Xinxing Location of the seat in Guangdong | |
| Coordinates: 22°41′46″N 112°13′30″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture-level city | Yunfu |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,520 km2 (590 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | 428,410 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Xinxing County | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 新興 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新兴 | ||||||||
| Postal | Sunhing | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Newly Flourishing | ||||||||
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History
xin xing county formally established in the third year of da ye era, Sui dynasty (隋大業三年) (607 CE). Under the Qing (清朝), Xinxing County was administered as part of the commandery of Zhaoqing.[1]
Notable people:
- Huineng (惠能) (638–713): sixth ancestor of Chan
- Cheung Chu (張珠) (1892–1950)： entrepreneur of Malaysia
- Gabriel Sun Shou Kin (孫秀乾)： grew up in Hong Kong, now is an entrepreneur of Australia
- Su Shuhui (苏树辉）(1951–)： Macao politician also a calligrapher
Climate
| Climate data for Xinxing (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 30.0 (86.0) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.4 (92.1) |
35.0 (95.0) |
35.5 (95.9) |
37.5 (99.5) |
38.2 (100.8) |
38.9 (102.0) |
37.8 (100.0) |
35.0 (95.0) |
34.2 (93.6) |
29.8 (85.6) |
38.9 (102.0) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 18.9 (66.0) |
19.5 (67.1) |
22.3 (72.1) |
26.6 (79.9) |
30.2 (86.4) |
32.1 (89.8) |
33.4 (92.1) |
33.3 (91.9) |
31.7 (89.1) |
29.2 (84.6) |
25.1 (77.2) |
20.9 (69.6) |
26.9 (80.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.4 (56.1) |
15.0 (59.0) |
18.1 (64.6) |
22.4 (72.3) |
25.6 (78.1) |
27.3 (81.1) |
28.3 (82.9) |
28.1 (82.6) |
26.5 (79.7) |
23.4 (74.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
14.4 (57.9) |
21.8 (71.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 9.8 (49.6) |
11.9 (53.4) |
15.1 (59.2) |
19.6 (67.3) |
22.4 (72.3) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.8 (76.6) |
24.9 (76.8) |
23.2 (73.8) |
19.6 (67.3) |
14.5 (58.1) |
10.2 (50.4) |
18.4 (65.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −1.3 (29.7) |
1.2 (34.2) |
2.7 (36.9) |
9.0 (48.2) |
13.3 (55.9) |
16.8 (62.2) |
21.0 (69.8) |
21.6 (70.9) |
15.5 (59.9) |
8.2 (46.8) |
2.7 (36.9) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 43.4 (1.71) |
64.8 (2.55) |
84.9 (3.34) |
160.8 (6.33) |
256.4 (10.09) |
261.7 (10.30) |
226.1 (8.90) |
244.1 (9.61) |
190.5 (7.50) |
78.9 (3.11) |
47.5 (1.87) |
27.4 (1.08) |
1,686.5 (66.39) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 80 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 85 | 86 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 81 | 79 | 78 | 83 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center | |||||||||||||
Notes
- The Postal Map spelling was based on Xinxing's Cantonese pronunciation. Xinxing has also been romanized as Sin Hing,[1] Sin-hing,[2] and Sih-ching.[3]
References
Citations
- Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Gützlaff, Charles (1838), China Opened, p. 527.
Bibliography
- Bolton, Kingsley; et al. (1941), Triad Societies, Vol. 5, Abingdon: Routledge, ISBN 9780415243971, reprinted 2000.
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