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Dingzhou

{{hatnote|Not to be confused with Chongju in Korea, whose name shares the same Chinese characters as Dingzhou.}}

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Dingzhou

|native_name = {{lower|0.1em|{{nobold|{{lang|zh|定州市}}}}}}

|settlement_type = County-level city

|official_name =

|postal_code = 073000

|postal_code_type = Postal code

|image_skyline = File:Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway in Dingzhou (20170607152759).jpg

|image_caption = Dingzhou skyline seen from Shuohuang Railway

|image_map = ChinaBaodingDingzhou.png

|map_caption = Location in Baoding

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = People's Republic of China

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Hebei

|subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city

|subdivision_name2 = Baoding

|pushpin_map = China Hebei

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Hebei

|coordinates = {{coord|38.516|N|114.990|E|format=dms|type:adm3rd_region:CN-13_source:Gaode|display=it}}

|elevation_ft = 189

|elevation_m = 58

|area_code = 0312

| area_total_km2 = 1283.7

| area_urban_km2 = 53.00

| area_footnotes =

| population_total = 1,095,986

| population_as_of = 2020

| population_urban = 577,440

| population_urban_footnotes =

|population_density_km2 = auto

|timezone = China Standard

|utc_offset = +8

|website = {{url|www.dingzhou.gov.cn}}

|blank_name = License Plate Prefix

|blank_info = {{lang|zh-cn|冀F}}

}}

{{Infobox Chinese

|c={{linktext|定州}} |psp=Tingchow |p=Dìngzhōu |w=Ting-chou |l=[Seat of] Ding ("Orderly") Prefecture

}}

{{Infobox Chinese |title=Former names

|altname=Lunu |t2={{linktext|廬奴}} |s2={{linktext|庐奴}} |p2=Lúnú |w2=Lu-nu |l2=

|altname3=Boling |c3={{linktext|博陵}} |p3=Bólíng |w3=Po-ling |l3=

|altname4=Dingxian |s4={{linktext|定县}} |t4={{linktext|定縣}} |p4=Dìngxiàn |psp4=Tingsien |w4=Ting-hsien]]

}}

Dingzhou, or Tingchow in Postal Map Romanization, and formerly called Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city of Baoding, Hebei Province. As of 2020, Dingzhou had a population of 1.1 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township.[http://www.xzqh.org/html/list/764.html 定州市-行政区网] Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, {{convert|196|km|sp=us}} southwest of Beijing, and {{convert|68|km|sp=us}} northeast of Shijiazhuang.

History

Dingzhou was originally known as Lunu in early imperial China. A tomb about {{convert|4|km|sp=us}} southwest of Dingzhou from 55{{nbsp}}BCE was discovered and excavated in 1973. It contained several fragments of Han literature, including manuscripts of Confucius's Analects, the Taoist Wenzi, and the Six Secret Teachings, a military treatise. The identity of the tomb's occupant is unknown, but Chinese archaeologists have speculated that it belonged to Liu Xiu or Xu Xing.[https://asianhistory109.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/an-interesting-tomb-and-the-dingzhou-fragments/ Asian History]

Dingzhou took its present name around 400{{nbsp}}CE when it became the seat of Ding Prefecture under the Northern Wei, displacing the earlier An Prefecture.{{harvp|Xiong|2017|loc="[https://books.google.com/books?id=fCdCDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137 Dingzhou]"}}. In the mid-6th century, its territory held 834,211 people living in 177,500 households. Under the Sui, the seat of Boling Commandery at present-day Anping was renamed "Gaoyang". In 607, Dingzhou then became the eponymous seat of a new Boling commandery and retained that name and status under the Tang{{citation |contribution=Boling |contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCdCDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fCdCDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 69] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCdCDgAAQBAJ |title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval China |last=Xiong |first=Victor Cunrui |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham |date=2017 |isbn=9781442276154 }}. until it returned to the name Dingzhou between 621 and 742 and again after 758. Its territory held only 86,869 people in 25,637 households in 639 but recovered to 496,676 people in 78,090 households by 742.

In 1055, under the Song, the city became the home of the {{convert|84|m|ft|sp=us|adj=mid|-tall}} Liaodi Pagoda, which is today China's tallest surviving pre-modern pagoda.

Under the early Republic, it was known as Dingxian (then romanized "Tingsien" or "Ting Hsien") from its status as the seat of Ding County. From 1926 to 1937, the county was the site of the National Association of Mass Education Movement's Ting Hsien Experiment of the Rural Reconstruction Movement. In the 1990s, the New Rural Reconstruction Movement maintained a training and outreach center.

Administrative divisions

Towns:

Townships:

Climate

{{Weather box|width=auto

|metric first=y

|single line=y

|collapsed = Y

|location = Dingzhou, elevation {{convert|42|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)

|Jan high C = 2.9

|Feb high C = 7.0

|Mar high C = 14.2

|Apr high C = 21.4

|May high C = 27.2

|Jun high C = 31.6

|Jul high C = 31.9

|Aug high C = 30.3

|Sep high C = 26.5

|Oct high C = 20.0

|Nov high C = 10.9

|Dec high C = 4.3

|Jan mean C = -2.8

|Feb mean C = 1.0

|Mar mean C = 7.8

|Apr mean C = 15.1

|May mean C = 21.0

|Jun mean C = 25.5

|Jul mean C = 27.0

|Aug mean C = 25.5

|Sep mean C = 20.6

|Oct mean C = 13.7

|Nov mean C = 5.2

|Dec mean C = -0.9

|Jan low C = -7.4

|Feb low C = -3.8

|Mar low C = 2.2

|Apr low C = 9.1

|May low C = 14.9

|Jun low C = 19.8

|Jul low C = 22.5

|Aug low C = 21.4

|Sep low C = 15.9

|Oct low C = 8.8

|Nov low C = 0.9

|Dec low C = -5.0

|Jan record high C = 17.0 |Jan record low C = -18.6

|Feb record high C = 23.1 |Feb record low C = -17.3

|Mar record high C = 30.5 |Mar record low C = -8.5

|Apr record high C = 34.0 |Apr record low C = -1.5

|May record high C = 38.3 |May record low C = 4.3

|Jun record high C = 41.0 |Jun record low C = 10.8

|Jul record high C = 42.0 |Jul record low C = 16.1

|Aug record high C = 37.8 |Aug record low C = 13.0

|Sep record high C = 35.2 |Sep record low C = 5.4

|Oct record high C = 32.1 |Oct record low C = -3.1

|Nov record high C = 24.9 |Nov record low C = -11.2

|Dec record high C = 21.0 |Dec record low C = -19.5

|year high C = |year low C =

|year high F = |year low F =

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 2.2

|Feb precipitation mm = 4.8

|Mar precipitation mm = 9.1

|Apr precipitation mm = 23.5

|May precipitation mm = 33.0

|Jun precipitation mm = 57.8

|Jul precipitation mm = 142.6

|Aug precipitation mm = 113.2

|Sep precipitation mm = 47.5

|Oct precipitation mm = 24.2

|Nov precipitation mm = 12.0

|Dec precipitation mm = 2.0

|Jan humidity = 55

|Feb humidity = 51

|Mar humidity = 49

|Apr humidity = 53

|May humidity = 57

|Jun humidity = 61

|Jul humidity = 75

|Aug humidity = 79

|Sep humidity = 74

|Oct humidity = 68

|Nov humidity = 65

|Dec humidity = 58

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 1.6

|Feb precipitation days = 2.4

|Mar precipitation days = 2.8

|Apr precipitation days = 4.7

|May precipitation days = 6.1

|Jun precipitation days = 8.3

|Jul precipitation days = 11.4

|Aug precipitation days = 10.3

|Sep precipitation days = 6.9

|Oct precipitation days = 4.8

|Nov precipitation days = 3.3

|Dec precipitation days = 1.7

|year precipitation days =

|Jan sun = 160.4

|Feb sun = 172.0

|Mar sun = 219.4

|Apr sun = 235.2

|May sun = 264.9

|Jun sun = 229.7

|Jul sun = 190.5

|Aug sun = 194.5

|Sep sun = 195.9

|Oct sun = 181.1

|Nov sun = 156.8

|Dec sun = 155.2

|year sun =

| Jan percentsun = 53

| Feb percentsun = 56

| Mar percentsun = 59

| Apr percentsun = 59

| May percentsun = 60

| Jun percentsun = 52

| Jul percentsun = 42

| Aug percentsun = 47

| Sep percentsun = 53

| Oct percentsun = 53

| Nov percentsun = 53

| Dec percentsun = 53

| year percentsun =

|Jan snow days = 2.3

|Feb snow days = 2.8

|Mar snow days = 1.1

|Apr snow days = 0.2

|May snow days = 0

|Jun snow days = 0

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0

|Sep snow days = 0

|Oct snow days = 0

|Nov snow days = 1.6

|Dec snow days = 2.7

|year snow days =

|source 1 = China Meteorological Administration{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=25 August 2023}}

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}}

Transportation

Dingzhou is one of the transportation hubs in North China.

=Railroads=

=Highways=

Places of interest

File:Dingzhou, Baoding, Hebei, China - panoramio (9).jpg

See also

References

=Citations=

{{Reflist|30em}}

=Bibliography=

  • Sidney D. Gamble, Foreword by Y.C. James Yen. Field work directed by Franklin Ching-han Lee. Ting Hsien, a North China Rural Community (New York: International Secretariat Institute of Pacific Relations, 1954; rpr Stanford University Press, 1968). xxv, 472p. 54009009. Sociological survey conducted in the 1920s and early 1930s.

External links

{{Commons category|Dingzhou}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20061217143909/http://www.dingzhou.gov.cn/ Dingzhou City Government Website]
  • [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/31868/ Report on excavation of Dingzhou tombs]

{{Geographic Location

|Centre = Dingzhou

|North = Tang County

|Northeast = Wangdu County

|Northwest = Quyang County

|East = Anguo City

|Southeast = Shenze County

|South = Wuji County

|Southwest = Xinle City

}}

{{County-level divisions of Hebei}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:Geography of Baoding

Category:County-level cities in Hebei