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Shawan Ancient Town. Shawan Ancient Town (Chinese: 沙湾古镇) is an 800-year-old town located in the Panyu District of Guangzhou in southern China, founded during the Song dynasty. It is traditionally linked to the historical and folk Lingan culture. [1] [2] The town area covers 153 hectares; and it is divided into an east village, west ...
Qingyan Ancient Town: 2017 Originally built in the year 1378, during the Ming dynasty. Qingyan's pig's feet is a local delicacy found in the town. The pig's feet symbolize good luck. Located in Huaxi District. Guizhou: Tongren: Mount Fanjing: 2018 The highest peak of the Wuling Mountains in southeastern China, at an elevation of 2,570 m (8,430 ft).
Zini Village, Shawan Town, Fanyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Coordinates 22°53′46″N 113°17′28″E / 22.8961392°N 113.2911684°E / 22.8961392; 113.2911684
Shawan (沙湾, lit. "Sandy Bay"), a settlement in Shandong; see 1452 Yellow River floods; Shawan Ancient Town, a township in Panyu District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong; Shawan, Xinjiang, a county-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; Shawan District, in Leshan Prefecture-Level City, Sichuan
Shawan, also transliterated from Chinese to Uyghur as Savan, is a county-level city situated in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Tacheng Prefecture. It has an area of 12,468 km 2 (4,814 sq mi) with a population of 200,000.
Shawan District (simplified Chinese: 沙湾区; traditional Chinese: 沙灣區; pinyin: Shāwān Qū) is a district of the city of Leshan, Sichuan Province, China.Shawan is located on the Dadu River around 40 km (25 mi) southwest from what was then called the city of Jiading (Lu) (Chia-ting (Lu), 嘉定(路)), and now is the central urban area of the prefecture-level city of Leshan in Sichuan ...
Leshan has a long history, with written records tracing back to around 700 BC during the Kai Ming dynasty of the Shu Kingdom.Around the early Spring and Autumn period, the Ba people, led by Kai Ming Bie Ling, migrated from western Hubei and settled at the confluence of the three rivers in what is now Leshan, including present-day Fengzhouba and the Dadu River.
The ancient site was known in its native language as Caḍ́ota [citation needed], and in Chinese during the Han dynasty as Jingjue (Chinese: 精絕; pinyin: Jīngjué, Old Chinese tseng-dzot, similar to Caḍ́ota [citation needed]). Numerous ancient archaeological artifacts have been uncovered at the site.