Xiangcheng County is a county under the jurisdiction of Xuchang City, Henan Province. It is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, with Funiushantou in the west and the eastern edge of Huanghuai Plain in the east. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east, with four distinct seasons. With a total area of 920 square kilometers, it governs 10 town and 6 townships; In 20 18, the total population was 88 17000.
Xiangcheng County was called "Pan" in the Spring and Autumn Period, and King Xiang of Zhou took refuge here and was named Xiangcheng. After Qin unified the six countries, Xiangcheng County has been established for more than 2200 years.
There are many cultural relics in the territory, including Ziyun Academy, one of the eight academies in China in the Ming Dynasty, Gan Ming Temple, the first Zen forest in Zhongzhou, which was built in the period of Tang Wude (6 18-626), Wuyue Temple in Baininggang, a Taoist holy place, ancient city walls and pottery pots left over from the Spring and Autumn Period, as well as cultural relics protection units and cultural relics such as Confucian Temple and Kuibi. 65438. Among them, Xiangcheng Confucian Temple, Ancient City Wall and Gan Ming Temple were approved and announced as national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.
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Xiangcheng county has a warm temperate continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. Generally, the county is controlled by continental air mass in winter, marine air mass in summer, and spring and autumn are alternate transitional seasons. The Spring Festival is short, dry and windy, and the temperature rises rapidly. The summer is long, the temperature is high, the rain is concentrated, and the spatial and temporal distribution is uneven; Autumn is short, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the precipitation gradually decreases;
Winter is long, windy, cold and less rainy and snowy. The annual average sunshine hours are 228 1.9 hours, the annual average sunshine rate is 52%, and the annual total solar radiation is 1.2 1.49 kcal/cm2. The total solar radiation, photosynthetic effective radiation and sunshine are sufficient in the crop growing season, which can meet the needs of double cropping in a year. The annual average temperature 14.7℃, and the annual average accumulated temperature is 5463.8℃.
The highest daily average temperature in July is 27.6℃, and the lowest in 65438+ 10 is 0.8℃. The extreme minimum temperature is below zero 15.3℃, and the extreme maximum temperature is 42.3℃. The wind direction changes obviously with the seasons. The north wind prevails in winter, the south wind prevails in summer, and the southwest wind is the most in the whole year. The annual average wind speed is 2.4m/s, and dry and hot winds often appear in early summer, with the highest frequency from May 24th to 29th.
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