Congjiang County
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Congjiang County (Template:Zh) is a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is divided by the Duliu River (Script error: No such module "Lang".), the upper reaches of the Liu River, and borders Guangxi to the south.
It is an important transit point as the first county inside Guizhou on China National Highway 321 between Sanjiang (Guangxi) and Guiyang, the provincial capital. A large bridge spans the river and connects the city's two halves.
Administrative divisions
Congjiang County is divided into 12 towns, 4 townships and 3 ethnic townships:[1]
- towns
- Bingmei Town 丙妹镇
- Guandong Town 贯洞镇
- Luoxiang Town 洛香镇
- Xiajiang Town 下江镇
- Zaibian Town 宰便镇
- Xishan Town 西山镇
- Tingdong Town 停洞镇
- Wangdong Town 往洞镇
- Jiajiu Town 加鸠镇
- Douli Town 斗里镇
- Qingyun Town 庆云镇
- Donglang Town 东郎镇
- townships
- Gaozeng Township 高增乡
- Guping Township 谷坪乡
- Jiabang Township 加榜乡
- Jiamian Township 加勉乡
- ethnic townships
- Gangbian Zhuang Ethnic Township 刚边壮族乡
- Xiutang Zhuang Ethnic Township 秀塘壮族乡
- Cuili Yao and Zhuang Ethnic Township 翠里瑶族壮族乡
Languages
In Congjiang County, Miao consists of the following three dialects (Congjiang County Gazetteer 1999:129).
- Dialectal area 1: parts of Template:Ill (Script error: No such module "Lang".); Zhaiping Township (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Template:Ill (Script error: No such module "Lang".); Shangang (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and Gaodiao (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Bingmei (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Dialectal area 2: Zaibian (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Xishan (Script error: No such module "Lang".) (similar to Rongshui Miao)
- Dialectal area 3: Xiajiang (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Tingdong (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Kongming (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
Communities
The county seat is known as Congjiang.[2]
The community of Biasha or Basha is within the county. The population are Miao people, and the residents are allowed under the Chinese government to possess and use firearms as this is their cultural heritage.[3] Demonstrations of gun marksmanship and other activities serve as tourist attractions. Katia Andreassi of National Geographic described it as "one of the most visited towns in the area".[4] It is Script error: No such module "convert". from Congjiang town.[2]
Climate
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References
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External links
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