Chongwu
Chongwu Town (Chinese: 崇武镇) is a township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China.[1]
Chongwu
崇武镇 | |
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 Chongwu walled city | |
  Chongwu Location in Fujian | |
| Coordinates: 24°53′00″N 118°56′00″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Fujian |
| Prefecture-level city | Quanzhou |
| County | Hui'an |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peninsula jutting into Taiwan Strait. The town's historical center, the Old Chongwu Fortress (Chinese: 崇武古城, Chongwu Gu Cheng) is a walled city dating to the late 14th century (Hongwu Emperor's reign; the conventional date is 1384).[2] The traditional Hui'an County vernacular architecture, making heavy use of the local granite, is largely preserved within the walled city. A large sculpture park is located on the narrow strip south of the fortress, between the city wall and the beach.
A memorial hall and a small temple (解放军庙) on the beach just west of town commemorate an engagement between the PLA infantry and the Nationalist air force that took place here in 1949.[3]
A significant amount of hospitality establishment, from luxury to budget hotels, are located outside the walled city.
Chongwu's eastern peninsula, extending east of central Chongwu into Taiwan Strait, contains a number of fishing and farming villages. Toward the east, the peninsula is split in two by the scenic Ben Ji An Bay (畚箕垵澳). A Neolithic archeological site, Dazuoshan (大岞山新石器时代遗址), is found on the "north fork" of the peninsula.
Climate
| Climate data for Chongwu (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 25.2 (77.4) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.6 (78.1) |
28.2 (82.8) |
30.6 (87.1) |
32.5 (90.5) |
34.7 (94.5) |
36.7 (98.1) |
35.2 (95.4) |
33.7 (92.7) |
29.6 (85.3) |
25.4 (77.7) |
36.7 (98.1) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 15.0 (59.0) |
14.8 (58.6) |
16.7 (62.1) |
20.6 (69.1) |
24.7 (76.5) |
27.6 (81.7) |
29.8 (85.6) |
30.2 (86.4) |
29.2 (84.6) |
25.9 (78.6) |
21.9 (71.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
22.8 (73.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
12.0 (53.6) |
13.9 (57.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
22.2 (72.0) |
25.5 (77.9) |
27.4 (81.3) |
27.7 (81.9) |
26.5 (79.7) |
23.1 (73.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
14.6 (58.3) |
20.2 (68.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 10.2 (50.4) |
10.1 (50.2) |
11.8 (53.2) |
15.7 (60.3) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.7 (78.3) |
24.4 (75.9) |
21.1 (70.0) |
17.0 (62.6) |
12.4 (54.3) |
18.2 (64.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 3.3 (37.9) |
2.9 (37.2) |
2.0 (35.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
11.4 (52.5) |
16.0 (60.8) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.8 (71.2) |
16.7 (62.1) |
12.9 (55.2) |
7.7 (45.9) |
2.0 (35.6) |
2.0 (35.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 32.5 (1.28) |
78.5 (3.09) |
105.3 (4.15) |
130.5 (5.14) |
158.3 (6.23) |
188.7 (7.43) |
99.6 (3.92) |
122.5 (4.82) |
114.8 (4.52) |
45.0 (1.77) |
33.3 (1.31) |
23.6 (0.93) |
1,132.6 (44.59) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 74 | 78 | 81 | 83 | 85 | 88 | 87 | 85 | 78 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 80 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center | |||||||||||||
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chongwu Town. |
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Chongwu. |
- "福建省" (in Chinese). xzqh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- Walled City of Chongwu (崇武古城) Archived 2011-09-05 at the Wayback Machine. Adapted from Magic Fujian© 2007 by Dr. Bill Brown
- Lary, Diana (2015), China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945–1949, Cambridge University Press, p. 264, ISBN 1316240304