Hui'an County

Hui'an County
惠安县
Hweian, Hweianhsien
County
Walled city of Chongwu
Walled city of Chongwu
  Hui'an County
in Quanzhou
Hui'an is located in Fujian
Hui'an
Hui'an
Location of the seat in Fujian
Coordinates: 24°59′N 118°48′E / 24.983°N 118.800°E / 24.983; 118.800
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceFujian
Prefecture-level cityQuanzhou
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Hui'an (Hui'anⓘ Chinese: 惠安; pinyin: Huì'ān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hūi-oaⁿ) is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian coast, between Quanzhou and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as of late 2003, with a non-agricultural population of 289,396 people. The dialect is Hui'an dialect, related to Hokkien.

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into fifteen towns and one ethnic township. The only township in the county is Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township.

Towns

Economy

Although apparently new, these houses inside Chongwu's city wall have been built in Hui'an's traditional style, using long narrow granite blocks for both the walls and the roof.

Hui'an people have long been engaged in quarrying local granite and using it for construction purposes. Traditional houses and other structures in the region are constructed from long narrow blocks of granite.

These days, Hui'an's stone workers have built on their experience by becoming manufacturers of stone statuary for China's temples, public places, businesses, and private residences. The 25 km-long (16 mi) road (Huichong Highway) between the Hui'an County seat and the town of Chongwu has a lot of production plants and showrooms of stone-working companies, with statues of all kinds displayed in front of them.

Footwear manufacturing is developed in a number of towns in the western part of the county, closer to Quanzhou.

Dali Foods Group has its headquarters in Hui'an County.

Transportation

Hui'an stone workers produce a variety of statuary for the national market

The Hui'an Railway Station, on the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway, is located about 8 km (5.0 mi) northwest of Hui'an's county seat, and is connected to it by a new divided highway (that passes through the 1,680 m-long [1 mi] Dalingtou Tunnel [大嶺頭隧道]), with frequent local bus service. Although a lot fewer trains stop at Hui'an than at major stations such as Quanzhou, there is a train in each direction every hour or two during the day. There is no night service.

The freight-only Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo Railway runs south of the county seat.

Culture

Traditional dress in Hui'an county for young women ("Hui'an maidens") was particularly colorful featuring elaborate headgear and exposed midriffs.: 129  This gave rise to a frequent misconception that Hui'an county people were not Han Chinese, as well as the joke that the dress of Hui'an is "feudal heads, democratic bellies.": 129  Depictions of this mode of dress in popular culture include the film Village of Widows, which deals with sexual mores along the Fujian coast.: 129 

Climate

Climate data for Chongwu Town, elevation 22 m (72 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 25.2
(77.4)		 26.0
(78.8)		 25.6
(78.1)		 28.2
(82.8)		 30.6
(87.1)		 32.5
(90.5)		 34.7
(94.5)		 36.7
(98.1)		 35.2
(95.4)		 33.7
(92.7)		 29.6
(85.3)		 25.4
(77.7)		 36.7
(98.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 15.2
(59.4)		 15.3
(59.5)		 17.4
(63.3)		 21.2
(70.2)		 25.2
(77.4)		 27.9
(82.2)		 30.0
(86.0)		 30.4
(86.7)		 29.6
(85.3)		 26.1
(79.0)		 22.2
(72.0)		 17.6
(63.7)		 23.2
(73.7)
Daily mean °C (°F) 12.5
(54.5)		 12.4
(54.3)		 14.5
(58.1)		 18.4
(65.1)		 22.7
(72.9)		 25.9
(78.6)		 27.7
(81.9)		 27.9
(82.2)		 27.0
(80.6)		 23.4
(74.1)		 19.5
(67.1)		 14.9
(58.8)		 20.6
(69.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 10.6
(51.1)		 10.5
(50.9)		 12.4
(54.3)		 16.3
(61.3)		 20.8
(69.4)		 24.3
(75.7)		 25.9
(78.6)		 26.0
(78.8)		 24.9
(76.8)		 21.4
(70.5)		 17.6
(63.7)		 13.0
(55.4)		 18.6
(65.5)
Record low °C (°F) 3.3
(37.9)		 2.9
(37.2)		 2.0
(35.6)		 7.0
(44.6)		 11.4
(52.5)		 16.0
(60.8)		 21.6
(70.9)		 21.8
(71.2)		 16.7
(62.1)		 12.9
(55.2)		 7.7
(45.9)		 2.0
(35.6)		 2.0
(35.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 38.5
(1.52)		 65.5
(2.58)		 93.3
(3.67)		 99.0
(3.90)		 156.6
(6.17)		 182.4
(7.18)		 104.7
(4.12)		 135.0
(5.31)		 96.1
(3.78)		 44.0
(1.73)		 36.1
(1.42)		 37.2
(1.46)		 1,088.4
(42.84)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 6.6 9.0 12.9 12.5 13.5 12.5 6.5 8.5 7.1 3.1 4.5 5.9 102.6
Average relative humidity (%) 74 77 79 82 84 89 86 84 77 71 73 72 79
Mean monthly sunshine hours 131.4 106.5 120.0 130.9 144.1 176.8 268.7 248.0 216.1 204.5 157.7 141.6 2,046.3
Percentage possible sunshine 39 33 32 34 35 43 64 62 59 57 48 43 46
Source: China Meteorological Administration

References

  1. ↑ "Company Overview of Fujian Dali Foods Group Co., Ltd.[link removed]" Businessweek. Retrieved on March 1, 2014. "Linkou Hui'an County Quanzhou, 362100 China "
  2. ↑ "联系我们 Archived 2014-03-18 at the Wayback Machine." Dali Group. Retrieved on March 1, 2014. "福建达利食品集团有限公司 地址：中国福建省惠安林口"
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  4. ↑ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
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