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Xuchang

Xuchang is a prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

A prefecture-level city or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province of China and above a county of China in China's administrative structure....
in central Henan

Henan

Henan , is a Province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is ? , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty province that included parts of Henan....
province, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou , formerly called Zhengxian is a prefecture-level city, and the capital of Henan Province , People's Republic of China....
to the northwest, Kaifeng

Kaifeng

Kaifeng , formerly known as Bianliang , Bianjing , Daliang , or simply Liang , is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province of China, People's Republic of China....
to the northeast, Zhoukou

Zhoukou

Zhoukou is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province of China, People's Republic of China. It borders Zhumadian to the southeast, Xuchang and Luohe to the west, Kaifeng to the northwest, Shangqiu to the northeast, and the province of Anhui on all other sides....
to the east, Luohe

Luohe

Luohe is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province of China, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded by the cities of Xuchang, Zhoukou, Zhumadian and Pingdingshan on its north, east, south and west respectively....
to the southeast, and Pingdingshan

Pingdingshan

Pingdingshan , also known as the Eagle City, with approximately 5.2 million inhabitants is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province of China, People's Republic of China....
to the southwest.

prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

County-level city

A county-level city is a Political divisions of China#County level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by Political divisions of China#Prefecture level divisions, but a few are governed directly by Political divisions of China#Province level divisions....
and 3 counties.

rding to tradition, the city was named after Xu, an ancient state led by tribal leader Xuyou during the Spring and Autumn Period

Spring and Autumn Period

The Spring and Autumn Period was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty . Its name comes from the Spring and Autumn Annals, a chronicle of the state of Lu between 722 BC and 481 BC, which tradition associates with Confucius....
of the Zhou Dynasty

Zhou Dynasty

The Zhou Dynasty was preceded by the Shang Dynasty and followed by the Qin Dynasty in China. The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in China history?though the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty only lasted during the Western Zhou....
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Xuchang is a prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

Henan

People's Republic of China

Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou , formerly called Zhengxian is a prefecture-level city, and the capital of Henan Province , People's Republic of China....
to the northwest, Kaifeng

Kaifeng

Zhoukou

Luohe

Pingdingshan

Administration

The prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

County-level city

Weidu District
Yuzhou
Yuzhou

Yuzhou is a county-level city in Xuchang, central Henan province in the People's Republic of China. It is the site of Yangzhai, the capital of the Han during the Warring States Period....
City
Chang'ge City
Xuchang County
Yanling County
Xiangcheng County

History

According to tradition, the city was named after Xu, an ancient state led by tribal leader Xuyou during the Spring and Autumn Period

Spring and Autumn Period

Zhou Dynasty

Cao Cao

C?o Cao was a warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of China of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during its final years in ancient China....
's de facto capital during the Three Kingdoms Period. After finding the Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
capital Luoyang

Luoyang

Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province of China, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, Jiyuan to the north, and Jiaozuo to the northeast....
ravaged by war, Cao moved the imperial court and the emperor to what is now Xuchang in 196

196

Events...
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In 220, Cao Cao's son and successor Cao Pi

Cao Pi

Cao Pi , formally Emperor Wen of Wei , courtesy name Zihuan , was born in Qiao County, Pei Commandery . He was the second son of the China politician and poet Cao Cao and was the first Emperor of China and the real founder of Cao Wei , one of the Three Kingdoms....
officially declared the city as the capital of the newly-established state of Wei. The city was renamed "Xuchang", meaning "Xu Rising". The Wei emperors held court at Xuchang until the capital was moved to Luoyang in the 220s.

In 2008, a skull (probably Homo erectus
Homo Erectus

Homo Erectus is a 2007 comedy film about cavemen that was written and directed by Adam Rifkin, and starring Giuseppe Andrews, Gary Busey, David Carradine, Ron Jeremy, Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur, Adam Rifkin, and Talia Shire....
) dating from 80,000 to 100,000 years old was found in Xuchang.

Agriculture and industry

Xuchang is an important center of the Chinese tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
industry. However, due to economic reasons many farmers have chosen not to plant tobacco anymore.

The city is also famous for its human hair exports.

Tourism

Famous tourist attractions include Baling Bridge and Chunqiu Tower.

Sister city

On 18 December, 2006, the Oromia Region

Oromia Region

Oromia is one of the nine Regions of Ethiopia of Ethiopia. Covering 353,632 square kilometers stretching from the eastern border in an arc to the southwestern corner of the country, its population was estimated in 2002 at about twenty-four million, making it the largest state in terms of both population and area....
government in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
signed an agreement with Henan Province to establish a sister city

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
program with Ambo

Ambo, Ethiopia

Ambo is a spa town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Mirab Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, west of Addis Ababa, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2101 meters....
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