Lintan County

Lintan County
Lintan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	临潭县
Traditional Chinese	臨潭縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Líntán Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། or བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་། or བཱ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	lin than rdzong or ba tse rdzong or bā tse rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Lintan Zong or Bazê Zong

Lintan County

临潭县 · བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།
Bazê
Lintan County 临潭县 · བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་། Bazê
County
	Fort in Liushun town
	Lintan (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) within Gansu (grey)
	Lintan Location of the seat in Gansu Lintan Lintan (China)
	Coordinates: 34°42′N 103°40′E / 34.700°N 103.667°E
Country	China
Province	Gansu
Autonomous prefecture	Gannan
County seat	Chengguan (Zhacêr)
Area
• Total	1,557.68 km2 (601.42 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	127,387
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	747500
Website	www.lintan.gov.cn

Lintan County (Chinese: 临潭县, Tibetan: བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།) is an administrative district in Gansu, China. It is one of 58 counties of Gansu. It is part of the Gannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747500, and in 1999 its population was 148,722 people.

Tibetans of Taozhou helped crush the Muslim rebels in the Dungan revolt (1895–1896) like they did in the 1781 Jahriyya revolt. The loyalist Muslims of Táozhōu also fight against the Muslim rebels and Muslim rebel leader Ma Yonglin's entire family was executed.^[2]^[3]

Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi's Muslim Xidaotang repulsed and defeated Bai Lang's bandit forces, who looted the city of Táozhōu but Muslim general Ma Anliang slaughtered Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi and his family after the war.^[4] The bandits were notable for anti-Muslim sentiment, massacring thousands of Muslims at Taozhou. Muslim Khufiyya Sufi general Ma Anliang was only concerned with defending Lanzhou and his own home base in Hezhou (Linxia) in central Gansu where his followers lived and not the rival Xidaotang sect Muslims under Muslim leader Ma Qixi in southern Gansu's minor towns like Taozhou so he let Bai Lang ravage Taozhou and other towns in southern Gansu while passively defending Lanzhou and Hezhou. The North China Herald and Reginald Farrer accused Ma Anliang of betraying his fellow Muslims by letting them get slaighterd at Taozhou. Ma Anliang then arrested Ma Qixi after falsely accusing him of striking a deal with Bai Lang and had Ma Qixi and his family slaughtered.^[5]

Administrative divisions

Lintan County is divided to 11 towns, 3 townships, and 2 ethnic townships.^[6]

Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Administrative division code
Towns
Chengguan Town (Zhacêr)	城关镇	Chéngguān Zhèn	སྦྲ་མཚེར་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sbra mtsher grong rdal	623021100
Xincheng Town (Xinchên)	新城镇	Xīnchéng Zhèn	ཞིན་ཁྲེན་གྲོང་རྡལ།	zhin khren grong rdal	623021101
Yeliguan Town (Gonangtang)	冶力关镇	Yělìguān Zhèn	འགོ་ནང་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	'go nang thang grong rdal	623021102
Yangyong Town	羊永镇	Yángyǒng Zhèn	གཡང་ཡོང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	g.yang yong grong rdal	623021103
Wangqi Town	王旗镇	Wángqí Zhèn	ཝང་ཆི་གྲོང་རྡལ།	wang chi grong rdal	623021104
Guzhan Town (Kurqên, Gurqên)	古战镇	Gǔzhàn Zhèn	གུར་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ།	gur chen grong rdal	623021105
Taobin Town	洮滨镇	Táobīn Zhèn	ཐའོ་པིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།	tha'o pin grong rdal	623021106
Bajiao Town (Zhubgyo)	八角镇	Bājiǎo Zhèn	བསྒྲུབས་རྒྱོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	bsgrubs rgyo grong rdal	623021107
Liushun Town (Lushün)	流顺镇	Liúshùn Zhèn	ལུའུ་ཧྲུན་གྲོང་རྡལ།	lu'u hrun grong rdal	623021108
Dianzi Town (Dênzi)	店子镇	Diànzǐ Zhèn	ཏེན་ཙི་གྲོང་རྡལ།	ten tsi grong rdal	623021109
Yangsha Town (Yangsa)	羊沙镇	Yángshā Zhèn	གཡང་ས་གྲོང་རྡལ།	g.yang sa grong rdal	623021110
Townships
Shubu Township (Qubotang)	术布乡	Shùbù Xiāng	ཆུ་བོ་ཐང་ཤང་།	chu bo thang shang	623021200
Sancha Township (Saincha)	三岔乡	Sānchà Xiāng	ཟན་ཁྲ་ཤང་།	zan khra shang	623021208
Shimen Township (Zhaggo)	石门乡	Shímén Xiāng	བྲག་སྒོ་ཤང་།	brag sgo shang	623021210
Ethnic townships
Joro Hui Ethnic Township (Zhuoluo)	卓洛回族乡	Zhuōluò Huízú Xiāng	ཅོག་རོ་ཧོས་རིགས་ཤང་།	cog ro hos-rigs shang	623021202
Changchuan Hui Ethnic Township (Changchoin)	长川回族乡	Chángchuān Huízú Xiāng	ཁྲང་ཁྲོན་ཧོས་རིགས་ཤང་།	khrang khron hos-rigs shang	623021203

Climate

Climate data for Lintan, elevation 2,810 m (9,220 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)	16.7 (62.1)	19.7 (67.5)	23.9 (75.0)	29.4 (84.9)	28.6 (83.5)	27.2 (81.0)	30.6 (87.1)	29.7 (85.5)	27.7 (81.9)	22.2 (72.0)	18.2 (64.8)	15.5 (59.9)	30.6 (87.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	2.2 (36.0)	4.7 (40.5)	8.5 (47.3)	13.1 (55.6)	16.0 (60.8)	18.4 (65.1)	20.5 (68.9)	20.4 (68.7)	16.5 (61.7)	11.7 (53.1)	8.0 (46.4)	3.8 (38.8)	12.0 (53.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−7.4 (18.7)	−4.4 (24.1)	0.0 (32.0)	5.0 (41.0)	8.7 (47.7)	12.0 (53.6)	14.1 (57.4)	13.5 (56.3)	10.0 (50.0)	4.8 (40.6)	−0.9 (30.4)	−6.0 (21.2)	4.1 (39.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−14.4 (6.1)	−10.9 (12.4)	−5.9 (21.4)	−1.2 (29.8)	2.9 (37.2)	6.6 (43.9)	9.0 (48.2)	8.5 (47.3)	5.7 (42.3)	0.3 (32.5)	−6.8 (19.8)	−12.8 (9.0)	−1.6 (29.2)
Record low °C (°F)	−24.9 (−12.8)	−22.5 (−8.5)	−21.0 (−5.8)	−10.6 (12.9)	−8.3 (17.1)	−0.5 (31.1)	0.6 (33.1)	0.1 (32.2)	−4.5 (23.9)	−11.0 (12.2)	−17.3 (0.9)	−24.6 (−12.3)	−24.9 (−12.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	4.4 (0.17)	5.7 (0.22)	13.6 (0.54)	33.0 (1.30)	68.9 (2.71)	71.5 (2.81)	100.9 (3.97)	88.4 (3.48)	73.2 (2.88)	42.0 (1.65)	6.6 (0.26)	1.7 (0.07)	509.9 (20.06)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	5.0	6.3	10.0	11.4	16.4	17.4	16.4	14.9	15.6	13.3	4.6	2.7	134
Average snowy days	8.4	9.3	12.2	8.9	3.1	0.1	0	0	0.4	6.1	6.9	5.5	60.9
Average relative humidity (%)	52	55	59	61	67	72	76	77	78	74	61	51	65
Mean monthly sunshine hours	207.8	189.3	203.7	208.4	207.8	193.5	207.8	201.0	153.9	171.4	202.2	217.5	2,364.3
Percent possible sunshine	66	61	54	53	48	45	48	49	42	50	66	72	55
Source: China Meteorological Administration^[7]^[8]