Hancheng

This article covers Hancheng (韩城), a county-level city in Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, China. For the street district of the same name Hancheng (韩城 街道) in the independent city of Yuzhou in the Chinese province of Henan, see Hancheng (Yuzhou) ; for the large communities of the same name (韩 城镇) in Hebei and Henan, see Hancheng (Fengrun) and Hancheng (Yiyang) .

Bridge in Hangcheng with the New Town in the background

Old town with pagoda

Hancheng ( 韩 城市 , Hánchéng Shì ) is an independent city in the independent city of Weinan in the Chinese province of Shaanxi . In 2004 it had 390,000 inhabitants.

In Hancheng are the Zhou-period Liangdaicun site, the tomb and the ancestral temple of Sima Qian from the time of the Western Han dynasty , the Song- period Fawang temple , Yuan- period temples such as the Dayu temple , the Puzhao- Temple , the Beiying Temple , the Jiulang Temple , the Qingshan Temple with its Great Buddha and the Sanqing Hall for viewing the purple clouds , Ming- era temples such as the Confucian Temple of Hancheng , the City God Temple of Hancheng and the Jade Emperor Earth God Temple , and the Qing- era Yuxiu Bridge , all of which, along with the Ming and Qing- era architecture of Dangjiacun, are on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China .

Web links

Commons : Hancheng  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 韩 城市 Hán Chéng Shì, Hancheng Shi ( English translation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )  

Coordinates: 35 ° 31 '  N , 110 ° 16'  E