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Xiangxi is the abbreviation for Xiangxi Tujia-Miao autonomous Prefecture
which is located in northwestern Hunan Province. Well situated between
Hunan and Sichuan, touching Hubei and Guizhou, Xingxi covers an area
of 15,486 square kilometers. Xiangxi Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture
has jurisdiction over seven counties---Longshan, Yongshun, Baojing,
Huayuan, Guzhang, Fenghuang and Luxi, and one city---Jishou, the capital
of the prefecture. Twenty-five nationalities gather here, of the total
2,480,000 population, 66.6 per cent are ethnic, including 860,000
Tujia and 790,000 Miao.
Xiangxi is a wonderful place with a long history, picturesque scenery
and plain customs. Streams cross the high and precipitous mountains;
old trees reach into the sky; wild mysterious caves dot the landscape;
waterfalls fly down the high cliffs Liusha Waterfall is famous for
its greatest drop in China. Besides the magical scenery, ancient
temples and towers litter the countryside. For example, the most
famous, the Hall of Ancestry in Laosichen, Yongshun County.
The Xiangxi River is one of the main tributaries into the Yangtze.
At the river mouth here, the clean green Xiangxi River water meets
the muddy yellow Yangtze River. Along the river there is a village
named Baoping, the birthplace of Wang Zhaojun, who was a celebrated
imperical concubine of the Han Dynasty but was married into a northern
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