Because of its geographical location, Wenling has long suffered from typhoons. On August 12, 2004, Typhoon Rananim, the sixth strongest typhoon in PRC history, landed in Shitang Town, Wenling. On 10 August 2019, Typhoon Lekima, the third strongest in PRC history, came ashore at Chengnan Town, Wenling.
Like the majority of areas in Zhejiang, most people from Wenling speak a dialect of Wu Chinese, known as Wenling Hua. It is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin Chinese, and partially intelligible with (also Wu) Shanghainese. There is also a small portion of Min Nan speakers in the southeastern regions, especially in Shitang Town. The linguistic diversity of some regions has resulted in a segment of the population becoming fluent in speaking up to three languages, when Mandarin is included.
In 1469, Taiping County was formed in the area from Fangyan, Taiping, and Fanchang, three villages formerly incorporated into Huangyan. Yueqing County's Shanmen and Yuhuan villages were ceded in 1476.
In 1513, the county seat built 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) of city wall, roughly squared, giving it the name of "Square Castle".
In 1914, the county was renamed Wenling to distinguish it from counties with same name in Shanxi, Sichuan, and Anhui. Wenling ("warm mountain") was once another name of Wenqiao Town.
Wenling was conquered by Communist forces on May 28, 1949, and the county government was created. In March 1994, Wenling was made a county-level "city".
Transportation
Wenling Railway Station is located in Daxi Town, North-West of Wenling. It is part of the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Railway, and has connected to high speed rail lines that runs in 300 km/h. In 2017, its annual ridership is about 8.5 million.
Wenling is 26 km (16 miles) away from the Taizhou Luqiao Airport, located in the city centre of Taizhou.
Wenling also connects to the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou expressway.
Food
QianGao
QianGao (嵌糕; pinyin: QiànGāo) is made with rice cake (NianGao) and many different dishes like fried noddle, carrots, potatoes, pork, tofu, and what ever people want. The QianGao is shaped like a big dumpling and all the other dishes are stuffed inside the rice cake.[3]
ShanFenHuShanFenHu (山粉糊; pinyin: ShānFenHú) is made with ShanFen which is the powder made from potato related plants. ShanFenHu is sticky and gel-liked. Then people can add different things in it, for example, if people want it to be more salty, they can add pork, mushroom, beans, tofu, peanut and so on. If people want it to be sweet, they can add red date, raisin, lotus seed, brown sugar and so on.[4]
PaoXiaPaoXia (泡虾; pinyin: PàoXiā) is one of the most famous snacks people can buy on the street in Wenling. It is translated as "Fried Shrimp" but it is not actual shrimp. The ingredients include wheat flour, pork, cabbage. The steps to make it is first you mix the flour with water to create the gel. Then you make a thin slice of the gel. Next, you put the pork ad cabbage on the slice and make another slice on top of the pork and cabbage to wrap the food. Finally, you deep fry it to get the final product.[3]
ChuiYuanChuiYuan (炊圆; pinyin: ChūiYuán) is made with glutinous rice, dried small shrimp, tofu, carrot. First, you mix the glutinous rice powder with cold water to make the sticky gel. You then separate them into many smaller round shaped ones. Next, you put all the other ingredients inside the glutinous rice gel. In the end, you steam them to get final product.[3]
Economy
The economy of Wenling is relatively developed. In 2018, its nominal GDP exceeds 100 billion, becoming the first city (or county, district) in Taizhou to have 100 billion GDP. Its GDP per capita is about 83,300 RMB (12,607 US dollar).
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