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'''Shangyu''' ({{lang-zh|上虞}}; [[pinyin]]: Shàngyú) is a [[county-level city]] which is part of the [[prefecture-level city]] of [[Shaoxing]] in the Northeast of [[Zhejiang]] province of the [[People's Republic of China]]. It had slightly more than 100,000 inhabitants in 2002. Shangyu is roughly fifty kilometers from north to south and about thirty kilometers from east to west. It makes up about one-fourth of the area of greater Shaoxing. The Cao E River (named after a heroic young woman who died trying to save her father) flows northward through it. Shangyu's urban center, Baiguan is located where the river flows out of the hilly area that makes up more than half of the county, into flat alluvial land. Baiguan is about 28 kilometers east of Shaoxing's urban center. The railroad from [[Hangzhou]] to [[Ningbo]] passes through Baiguan, and the new superhighway between Hangzhou and Ningbo skirts Baiguan. Shangyu has over a thousand umbrella factories. The [[Wu Chinese|Wu]] language is spoken in Shangyu. In the name "Baiguan" (百官) “bai” means “hundred” and “guan” means an imperial civil service official. The city came to be called this when it became famous for producing many scholars who became officials by passing the imperial civil service examination. |
'''Shangyu''' ({{lang-zh|上虞}}; [[pinyin]]: Shàngyú) is a [[county-level city]] which is part of the [[prefecture-level city]] of [[Shaoxing]] in the Northeast of [[Zhejiang]] province of the [[People's Republic of China]]. It had slightly more than 100,000 inhabitants in 2002. Shangyu is roughly fifty kilometers from north to south and about thirty kilometers from east to west. It makes up about one-fourth of the area of greater Shaoxing. The Cao E River (named after a heroic young woman who died trying to save her father) flows northward through it. Shangyu's urban center, Baiguan is located where the river flows out of the hilly area that makes up more than half of the county, into flat alluvial land. Baiguan is about 28 kilometers east of Shaoxing's urban center. The railroad from [[Hangzhou]] to [[Ningbo]] passes through Baiguan, and the new superhighway between Hangzhou and Ningbo skirts Baiguan. |
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Within Shangyu, just northwest of Baiguan, the Hangzhou-Ningbo highway (mostly east-west) |
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intersects with a superhighway that goes south to the seacoast and then down the coast |
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through [[Wenzhou]] and [[Fuzhou]] all the way to [[Guangzhou]]. Shangyu has over a thousand umbrella factories. The [[Wu Chinese|Wu]] language is spoken in Shangyu. In the name "Baiguan" (百官) “bai” means “hundred” and “guan” means an imperial civil service official. The city came to be called this when it became famous for producing many scholars who became officials by passing the imperial civil service examination. |
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In the tragic legend of the [[Butterfly Lovers]], the girl was from Shangyu and the boy was from Shaoxing. |
In the tragic legend of the [[Butterfly Lovers]], the girl was from Shangyu and the boy was from Shaoxing. |
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Revision as of 02:47, 1 January 2009
Shangyu (Chinese: 上虞; pinyin: Shàngyú) is a county-level city which is part of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing in the Northeast of Zhejiang province of the People's Republic of China. It had slightly more than 100,000 inhabitants in 2002. Shangyu is roughly fifty kilometers from north to south and about thirty kilometers from east to west. It makes up about one-fourth of the area of greater Shaoxing. The Cao E River (named after a heroic young woman who died trying to save her father) flows northward through it. Shangyu's urban center, Baiguan is located where the river flows out of the hilly area that makes up more than half of the county, into flat alluvial land. Baiguan is about 28 kilometers east of Shaoxing's urban center. The railroad from Hangzhou to Ningbo passes through Baiguan, and the new superhighway between Hangzhou and Ningbo skirts Baiguan. Within Shangyu, just northwest of Baiguan, the Hangzhou-Ningbo highway (mostly east-west) intersects with a superhighway that goes south to the seacoast and then down the coast through Wenzhou and Fuzhou all the way to Guangzhou. Shangyu has over a thousand umbrella factories. The Wu language is spoken in Shangyu. In the name "Baiguan" (百官) “bai” means “hundred” and “guan” means an imperial civil service official. The city came to be called this when it became famous for producing many scholars who became officials by passing the imperial civil service examination. In the tragic legend of the Butterfly Lovers, the girl was from Shangyu and the boy was from Shaoxing.