Wuxuan County
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Wuxuan County (Chinese: 武宣县; pinyin: Wǔxuān Xiàn; Zhuang: Vujsenh Yen) is a county in the east-central part of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Laibin.
During the Cultural Revolution, the county was the site of pitched battles between rival factions. The investigative journalist Zheng Yi wrote of these battles and cases of cannibalism of members of the fallen faction in his book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China.
Administrative divisions
Wuxuan County is divided into 9 towns and 1 township:
towns
- Wuxuan 武宣镇
- Tongling 桐岭镇
- Tongwan 通挽镇
- Dongxiang 东乡镇
- Sanli 三里镇
- Ertang 二塘镇
- Huangmao 黄茆镇
- Luxin 禄新镇
- Siling 思灵镇
township
- Jinji 金鸡乡
Population
According to the data from the Seventh National Population Census, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent resident population of Wuxuan County was 340,312.
Climate
| Climate data for Wuxuan, elevation 70 m (230 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 28.8 (83.8) | 32.7 (90.9) | 34.0 (93.2) | 35.7 (96.3) | 35.7 (96.3) | 37.7 (99.9) | 39.4 (102.9) | 38.7 (101.7) | 39.0 (102.2) | 36.6 (97.9) | 32.8 (91.0) | 30.4 (86.7) | 39.4 (102.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.7 (60.3) | 17.9 (64.2) | 20.6 (69.1) | 26.2 (79.2) | 30.0 (86.0) | 31.7 (89.1) | 33.0 (91.4) | 33.3 (91.9) | 31.9 (89.4) | 28.6 (83.5) | 23.9 (75.0) | 18.5 (65.3) | 25.9 (78.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) | 13.9 (57.0) | 16.9 (62.4) | 22.2 (72.0) | 25.8 (78.4) | 27.7 (81.9) | 28.6 (83.5) | 28.5 (83.3) | 26.9 (80.4) | 23.4 (74.1) | 18.6 (65.5) | 13.6 (56.5) | 21.5 (70.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 8.9 (48.0) | 11.1 (52.0) | 14.2 (57.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 22.6 (72.7) | 24.8 (76.6) | 25.5 (77.9) | 25.2 (77.4) | 23.4 (74.1) | 19.6 (67.3) | 14.9 (58.8) | 10.1 (50.2) | 18.3 (64.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 0.0 (32.0) | 0.4 (32.7) | 1.3 (34.3) | 7.3 (45.1) | 11.9 (53.4) | 17.5 (63.5) | 19.1 (66.4) | 20.6 (69.1) | 15.0 (59.0) | 8.5 (47.3) | 3.5 (38.3) | −1.6 (29.1) | −1.6 (29.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 55.4 (2.18) | 44.5 (1.75) | 82.4 (3.24) | 108.8 (4.28) | 200.8 (7.91) | 248.5 (9.78) | 189.6 (7.46) | 164.3 (6.47) | 92.3 (3.63) | 52.9 (2.08) | 49.0 (1.93) | 38.7 (1.52) | 1,327.2 (52.23) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 9.9 | 11.0 | 15.5 | 13.5 | 15.6 | 17.5 | 16.3 | 15.0 | 9.6 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 145.1 |
| Average snowy days | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 74 | 76 | 80 | 78 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 80 | 76 | 72 | 72 | 70 | 76 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 67.4 | 57.9 | 49.7 | 87.1 | 138.1 | 149.9 | 200.5 | 194.3 | 179.3 | 173.5 | 134.6 | 112.1 | 1,544.4 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 20 | 18 | 13 | 23 | 34 | 37 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 41 | 34 | 35 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration |
Notes
Bibliography
- Zheng, Yi (1996). . edited and translated by T. P. Sym. With a Foreword by Ross Terrill. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 081332615X.
Further reading
- Sutton, Donald S. (January 1995). "Consuming Counterrevolution: The Ritual and Culture of Cannibalism in Wuxuan, Guangxi, China, May to July 1968". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 37 (1). Cambridge University Press: 136–172. doi:. JSTOR . S2CID .
External links
- Media related to Wuxuan at Wikimedia Commons