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Xiang River

Index Xiang River

The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. [1]

84 relations: Bank (geography), Changsha, Chating, China, Chinese characters, Chinese folk religion, Chinese name, Chinese postal romanization, Chu (state), Classic Chinese Novels, Communist Party of China, Dongting Lake, Drainage basin, Dream of the Red Chamber, Emperor Shun, Emperor Yao, Gaotangling, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guanyin Creek, Gui River, Guilin, Haiyang Mountains, Hengyang, Huanglong River, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jin River (Xiang River), Jiu Ge, Juan River, Kaifu District, Changsha, Lanshan County, Laodao River, Li River, Lianshui River, Lingchuan County, Guangxi, Lingling District, Lingqu, List of rivers of China, Liuyang River, Longwanggang River, Lukou, Zhuzhou, Lushui River, Mao Zedong, Min River (Sichuan), Mochuan River, Muyun, Muyungang River, Origin myth, Pearl River Delta, ..., Ping Island, Qiaokou, Wangcheng, Qu Yuan, River mouth, River source, Romanization of Chinese, Shahe River (Tributary of Xiang River), Shi Xiangyun, Shizhu River, Spotted bamboo, Surface runoff, The Shian Kian Weekly Review, Tianxin District, Tongguan Subdistrict, Tributary, Vehicle registration plates of China, Wangcheng District, Warring States period, Waterways of Tongxi Creek, Wei River (Xiang tributary), Xiangjiangyuan, Xiangshuishen, Xiangtan, Xiangyin County, Xiao River, Xiaoxiang, Xing'an County, Yangtze, Yongzhou, Yu Wuling, Yuelu District, Yuelu Mountain, Zheng River, Zhuzhou. Expand index (34 more) »

Bank (geography)

In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.

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Changsha

Changsha is the capital and most populous city of Hunan province in the south central part of the People's Republic of China.

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Chating

Chating is a town of Wangcheng district, Changsha, China.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.

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Chinese name

Chinese personal names are names used by those from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora overseas.

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Chinese postal romanization

Postal romanization was a system of transliterating Chinese place names developed by the Imperial Post Office in the early 1900s.

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Chu (state)

Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was a hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state.

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Classic Chinese Novels

In sinology, the Classic Chinese Novels are two sets of the four or six best-known traditional Chinese novels.

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Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.

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Dongting Lake

Dongting Lake is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan province, China.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dream of the Red Chamber

Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels.

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Emperor Shun

Shun, also known as Emperor Shun and Chonghua, was a legendary leader of ancient China, regarded by some sources as one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

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Emperor Yao

Emperor Yao (traditionally c. 2356 – 2255 BC) was a legendary Chinese ruler, according to various sources, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

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Gaotangling

Gaotangling Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of Wangcheng District in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

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Guanyin Creek

The Guanyin Creek is a seasonal river located in the left (western) bank of Xiang River, Pingtang Subdistrict of Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan, China.

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Gui River

The Gui River (Chinese: 桂江) is a river in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, and a tributary of the Xi Jiang.

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Guilin

Guilin, formerly romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

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Haiyang Mountains

The Haiyang Mountains, in ancient times known as "Yanghai Mountains" form a mountain range in the northeastern Guangxi separating West River drainage basin of the Xi River from the Xiang River drainage basin of the Yangtze River.

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Hengyang

Hengyang is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China.

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Huanglong River

Huanglong River, historically known as Zengzigang River, is a right-bank tributary of Xiang River in Wangcheng District and the northernmost one of right-bank tributaries in Changsha section of Xiang River in Hunan, China.

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Hunan

Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.

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Jiangxi

Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".

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Jin River (Xiang River)

The Jin River is a left-bank tributary of the Xiang River located in Changsha, Hunan Province.

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Jiu Ge

Jiu Ge, or Nine Songs, is an ancient set of poems.

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Juan River

The Juan River, also known as Baiguo River, Yisu River and Xingle River, is a left-bank tributary in the middle reaches of the Xiang River in Hunan, China.

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Kaifu District, Changsha

Kaifu District is one of six urban districts of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, China.

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Lanshan County

Lanshan County is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yongzhou prefecture-level City.

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Laodao River

The Laodao River, also known as Laotang River or Liaoxu River, is a right-bank tributary of Xiang River, the 2nd largest tributary of Xiang River in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.

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Li River

The Li River or Li Jiang is a river in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

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Lianshui River

The Lianshui River, also known as Luoma River or Ganxi River, is a left-bank tributary in the middle reaches of the Xiang River in Hunan.

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Lingchuan County, Guangxi

Lingchuan County is a county in the northeast of Guangxi, China.

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Lingling District

Lingling District is one of two urban districts of Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, China.

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Lingqu

The Lingqu is a canal in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in the northwestern corner of Guangxi, China.

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List of rivers of China

This incomplete list of rivers that flow through China is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the Arctic Ocean.

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Liuyang River

The Liuyang River, also known as Liu River or Liuwei River, is a right-bank tributary of Xiang River, the largest tributary of Xiang River in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.

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Longwanggang River

Longwanggang River is a left-bank tributary of the Changsha section of Xiang River in Hunan Province, China.

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Lukou, Zhuzhou

Lukou Town() is an urban town and the seat of Zhuzhou County in Hunan, China.

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Lushui River

The Lu River is a right-bank tributary of the Xiang River.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Min River (Sichuan)

The Min River or Min Jiang (Chinese: 江, p Mínjiāng) is a in central Sichuan province, China.

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Mochuan River

The Mochuan River is a right-bank tributary of the upper Xiang River in Xin'an County, Guangxi, China.

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Muyun

Muyun is a subdistrict of Tianxin District in Changsha, Hunan province, China.

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Muyungang River

Muyungang River is the southernmost one of right-bank tributaries in Changsha section of Xiang River in Hunan, China.

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Origin myth

An origin myth is a myth that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world.

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Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRD), also known as Zhujiang Delta or Zhusanjiao, is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea.

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Ping Island

The Ping Island is a river island with a general perimeter of about and an area of in the middle north of Lingling District, Yongzhou, Hunan.

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Qiaokou, Wangcheng

Qiaokou is a town of Wangcheng district, Changsha, China.

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Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan (–278 BC) was a Chinese poet and minister who lived during the Warring States period of ancient China.

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River mouth

A river mouth is the part of a river where the river flows into another river, a lake, a reservoir, a sea, or an ocean.

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River source

The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.

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Romanization of Chinese

The Romanization of Chinese is the use of the Latin alphabet to write Chinese.

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Shahe River (Tributary of Xiang River)

Shahe River, also known as Xianing River, is a right-bank tributary of Xiang River in Hunan, China.

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Shi Xiangyun

Shi Xiangyun is a major fictional character in the classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the characters known as the Twelve Beauties.

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Shizhu River

Shizhu River is a right-bank tributary of Xiang River in Wangcheng District of Changsha, Hunan Province, China.

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Spotted bamboo

Spotted bamboo refers to several types of bamboo with stems that are mottled by dark spots, sometimes considered to be within the genus Phyllostachys and forms of Phyllostachys bambusoides, also known as teardrop bamboo and as mottled bamboo.

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Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.

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The Shian Kian Weekly Review

The Shian Kian Weekly Review (Chinese:湘江评论/湘江評論) as known as Xiangjiang Review, was a weekly review founded by the young Mao Zedong in Changsha, Hunan, on June 14, 1919.

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Tianxin District

Tianxin District is one of six urban districts of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, China.

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Tongguan Subdistrict

Tongguan is a subdistrict of Wangcheng district, Changsha, China.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Vehicle registration plates of China

Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes.

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Wangcheng District

Wangcheng District is one of six urban districts of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, China.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history of warfare, as well as bureaucratic and military reforms and consolidation, following the Spring and Autumn period and concluding with the Qin wars of conquest that saw the annexation of all other contender states, which ultimately led to the Qin state's victory in 221 BC as the first unified Chinese empire known as the Qin dynasty.

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Waterways of Tongxi Creek

The Waterways of Tongxi Creek are a group of small lakes and streams located in the left (western) bank of Xiang River, Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan, China.

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Wei River (Xiang tributary)

The Wei or Weishui River, begins in Weishan Township, is long, and has a drainage basin of.

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Xiangjiangyuan

Xiangjiangyuan Yao Township is an ethnic township of the Yao people in Lanshan County, Hunan, China.

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Xiangshuishen

The Xiangshuishen or Xiang River Goddesses are goddesses (or spirits, and sometimes gods) of the Xiang River in Chinese folk religion.

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Xiangtan

Xiangtan is a prefecture-level city in Hunan province, China.

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Xiangyin County

Xiangyin County is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yueyang City.

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Xiao River

The Xiao River is the Main Stream of the upper Xiang River located in Yongzhou, Hunan.

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Xiaoxiang

Xiaoxiang, also transliterated XiaoXiang, Hsiao Hsiang, and Chiu Chiang, in some older sources, refers to the "lakes and rivers" region in south-central China south of the middle-reaches of the Yangtze River and corresponding, more or less, with Hunan province.

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Xing'an County

Xing'an County is a county in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.

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Yangtze

The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

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Yongzhou

Yongzhou is a prefecture-level city in the south of Hunan province, People's Republic of China, located on the southern bank of the Xiang River, which is formed by the confluence of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, and bordering Guangdong to the southeast and Guangxi to the southwest.

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Yu Wuling

Yu Wuling (b. 810) was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty.

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Yuelu District

Yuelu District is one of six urban districts of Changsha City, Hunan province, China, it is the 4th most populous district (after Heshan, Dingcheng and Yueyanglou Districts) in Hunan.

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Yuelu Mountain

Mount Yuelu is located on the west bank of the Xiang River in Changsha, Hunan, China.

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Zheng River

Zheng River is a river of China.

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Zhuzhou

Zhuzhou, formerly Jianning, is a prefecture-level city of Hunan Province, China, a little to the southeast of Changsha and bordering Jiangxi to the east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_River

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