Hengfeng County

Hengfeng County (Simplified Chinese:横峰;Traditional Chinese 橫峰;Pinyin:Héngfēng) is a small county under the administration of Shangrao city, Jiangxi Province, P.R.China. It is located in the middle part of Shangrao city, about 30 km from Shangrao Xinzhou District which is the locality of the municipality.

Hengfeng county was set up in Year 39 of the Ming Jiajing Reign (明嘉靖39年, 1560 AD) with the name Xing'an (兴安县). Its first mandarin was Chen Qingyun (陈庆云), who assumed his office that year.

In the Year 3 of the Republic of China (民国3年，1914 AD), the name of the county was changed from Xing'an to the current name (in order to eliminate ambiguity with the like-named county in Guilin Municipality, GX).

In the 1930s Hengfeng was the centre of the Northeastern Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area (later NEJX Soviet).

The Hengfeng county's east-west distance is 28.3 km, and the north-south is 50.3 km. The total area is 655.24 square km by aircraft measure. The highest mountain is Mill-Dish Mountain(磨盘山) with its peak altitude 1366.6 meters. Xinjiang River, the main river across Shangrao city, lies in the county for 9.82 kilometres. Cengang River runs across the county. The county's intensity of river grid is 0.2 km/square km.

In the last century, the main celebrities are Fang Zhimin and Shao Shiping.

Fang, born 1900 in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province, led revolution in Jiangxi with Communism faith and Marxism theory, who had the same prestige with Mao Zedong at that time. Fang and Shao Shiping had successfully launched Yiyang-Hengfeng Uprising and built the Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base. But unfortunately he was captured by the Kuomintang troops in the Huaiyu Mountains, Yushan County, Jiangxi in his adult age in 1935 and killed in Nanchang in the same year. Lovely China he wrote in prison is his masterpiece and influenced a number of revolutionaries.

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