Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County

Minhe County
民和县
民和回族土族自治县مٍهْ خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎ • Miinhoo Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xanKamalog
Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Minhe is located in Qinghai
Minhe
Minhe
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates (Minhe County government): 36°19′12″N 102°49′51″E / 36.3200°N 102.8308°E / 36.3200; 102.8308
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture-level cityHaidong
County seatChuankou
Area
 • Autonomous county1,891 km2 (730 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Autonomous county326,964
 • Density170/km2 (450/sq mi)
 • Urban
117,200
 • Rural
320,900
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
810800
Area code0972
Websitehttp://www.minhe.gov.cn/
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese民和回族土族自治县
Traditional Chinese民和回族土族自治縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMínhé Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjingمٍهْ خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྨིན་ཧོ་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or དམར་གཙང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliermin ho huʼe rigs hor rigs rang skyong rdzong or
dmar gtsang rdzong

Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County (Chinese: 民和回族土族自治县; Xiao'erjing: مٍهْ خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎; Monguor: Miinhoo Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan), known in Tibetan as Kamalog, is the easternmost county in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haidong (lit. Eastern Qinghai) Region. "Hui" refers to the Chinese Muslims, whereas "Tu" refers to the ethnic group known as “Monguor” in the West and as "Tu Zu" in China. It borders the Honggu District of Gansu on the east, demarcated by the Datong River, a tributary to the Huangshui River, which eventually flows into the Yellow River.

The County is multi-ethnic and significant to not only holding the most densely populated Tu Zu settlement in Sanchuan/Guanting in its southeastern portion, but also as the homeland of the legendary Emperor Yü the Great, who established the Xia dynasty (2070–1600 BC), the first ever recorded dynasty in the ancient Chinese history[2][3][4][5] based on recent archaeological discoveries.[6]

  1. ^ 民和县2019年国民经济和社会发展统计公报. Minhe County People's Government (in Chinese). 2020-05-07. Archived from the original on 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  2. ^ Bao Yizhi (鲍义志) (15 September 2006). 喇家遗址与大禹治水 [The Lajia Site and flood management by Yü the Great]. 青海日报 [Qinghai Daily]. Xining.
  3. ^ Bao Yizhi (鲍义志) (2007). 再说大禹故里 [More discussions on the homeland of Yü the Great]. 中国土族 [China's Tu Nationality]. 34 (2): 13.
  4. ^ Xie Zuo (谢佐) (2006). 略论河湟文化的史前文明 [On the prehistorical civilization of the Hehuang Culture]. 中国土族 [China's Tu Nationality]. 32 (4): 4–6.
  5. ^ Zhang Zhongxiao (张忠孝) (2007). 民和官亭是大禹故里 [Guanting of Minhe is the homeland of Yü the Great]. 中国土族 [China's Tu Nationality]. 34 (2): 14–16.
  6. ^ Lu, Houyuan; Yang, Xiaoyan; Ye, Maolin; Liu, Kam-Biu; Xia, Zhengkai; Ren, Xiaoyan; Cai, Linhai; Wu, Naiqin; Liu, Tung-Sheng (October 2005). "Millet noodles in Late Neolithic China". Nature. 437 (7061): 967–968. doi:10.1038/437967a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 16222289. S2CID 4385122. Retrieved 19 December 2021.