Yichun

About Yichun

Yichun 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", the monastic rules for Buddhists at the Buddhist temple, 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.

Yichun spans 27°33′−29°06′ N latitude and 113°54′−116°27′ E longitude, bordering Nanchang, the provincial capital, and Fuzhou to the east, Ji'an and Xinyu to the south, Pingxiang to the southwest, Changsha and Yueyang (both in Hunan) to the northwest, and Jiujiang to the north.

Yichun has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) affected by the East Asian monsoon, with long, humid, very hot summers (albeit slightly cooler than much of the rest of the province) and cool and drier winters with occasional cold snaps. The...

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