Yichun, Jiangxi

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Yichun 宜春市 Ichun
Prefecture-level city
Torch at Yichun railway station in October 2019
Location of Yichun City jurisdiction in Jiangxi
Coordinates (Yichun municipal government): 27°48′58″N 114°25′01″E / 27.816°N 114.417°E / 27.816; 114.417
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangxi
Municipal seat	Yuanzhou District
Government
• Mayor	Jiang Bin
Area
• Total	18,637.67 km2 (7,196.04 sq mi)
• Land	18,669 km2 (7,208 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	5,419,575
• Density	290/km2 (750/sq mi)
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 162.1 billion US$ 26.0 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 29,459 US$ 4,730
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code	0795
ISO 3166 code	CN-JX-09
Licence plate prefixes	赣C
Administrative division code	360900
Website	www.yichun.gov.cn

Yichun (Chinese: 宜春; pinyin: Yíchūn; Wade–Giles: I²-ch'un¹; postal: Ichun) is a mountainous prefecture-level city in the western/northwestern Jiangxi Province, China, bordering Hunan province to the west. It is located in the northwest of the province along a river surrounded by mountains. Yichun literally means "pleasant spring". Yichun has a profound Buddhist culture. "Can Lin Qing Gui"^{[citation needed]}, the monastic rules for Buddhists at the Buddhist temple^[which?], originated from Yichun. Yichun is also the birthplace of a number of literary figures, such as Tao Yuanming and Deng Gu, both of whom are famous poets in China history.