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24-578: The museum is located in the Wuchang District of Wuhan , Hubei Province, not far from the west shore of Wuhan's East Lake . It has a collection of over 200,000 objects, including the Sword of Goujian , an ancient set of bronze bells ( Bianzhong ) and extensive artifacts from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng and the tombs at Baoshan . The particular importance of several of the archaeological items in

48-686: A chancellor ( xiàng ). Parallel to these, some Qin commanderies were continued, placed under a governor appointed directly by the central government. By the Eastern Han dynasty, the commanderies were subordinated to a new division , the province ( zhōu ). — establishing a three-tier system composed of provinces, commanderies, and counties . Based upon legendary accounts of the Yellow Emperor 's Nine Provinces which were geographic rather than formal political areas, there were initially 13 provinces and roughly 100 commanderies. China

72-514: A museum in the People's Republic of China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wuchang District Wuchang is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan , the capital of Hubei Province , China . It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southeastern) bank of the Yangtze River, opposite

96-548: A population of 1,102,188. Other parts of what is colloquially known as Wuchang are within Hongshan District (south and south-east) and Qingshan District (north-east). Presently, on the right bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of Qingshan (for a very small section) to the northeast and Hongshan to the east and south; on the opposite bank it borders Jiang'an , Jianghan and Hanyang . On 10 October 1911,

120-482: Is named after the town. Commandery (China) A commandery ( Chinese : 郡 ; pinyin : jùn ) was a historical administrative division of China that was in use from the Eastern Zhou (c. 7th century BCE) until the early Tang dynasty (c. 7th century CE). Several neighboring countries adopted Chinese commanderies as the basis for their own administrative divisions. During

144-449: The Eastern Zhou 's Spring and Autumn period from the 8th to 5th centuries BCE, the larger and more powerful of the Zhou 's vassal states —including Qin , Jin and Wei —began annexing their smaller rivals. These new lands were not part of their original fiefs and were instead organized into counties ( xiàn ). Eventually, commanderies were developed as marchlands between

168-768: The New Army stationed in the city started the Wuchang Uprising , a turning point of the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China . In 221, warlord Sun Quan moved the capital of Eastern Wu from Gong'an county, Jingzhou (northwest of present-day Gong'an county, Hubei) to È county (in present-day Ezhou City), and renamed È to Wuchang (literally prospering from military , regarding its logistics role of

192-574: The Sichuan railway. In Wuchang on October 10, 1911, a revolt broke out against the Qing Dynasty. This event, now called the Wuchang Uprising and celebrated as Double Ten Day , was the catalyst that started the Xinhai Revolution , which led to the development of the Republic of China . In 1912, the Wuchang prefecture was abolished and a new Wuchang county (just next to the Wuchang county in

216-656: The circuit had been introduced, bringing back a three-tier system). In the Warring States period , the chief administrative officers of the areas were known as commandery administrators ( Chinese : 郡守 ; pinyin : jùnshǒu ; lit. 'defender of the jun'). In the Han dynasty , the position of junshou was renamed grand administrator ( 太守 ; tàishǒu ; 'grand defender'). Both terms are also translated as "governor". A grand administrator drew an annual salary of 2,000 dan ( 石 ) of grain according to

240-437: The major realms . Despite having smaller populations and ranking lower on the official hierarchies, the commanderies were larger and boasted greater military strength than the counties. As each state's territory gradually took shape in the 5th- to 3rd-century BCE Warring States period, the commanderies at the borders flourished. This gave rise to a two-tier administrative system, with counties subordinate to commanderies. Each of

264-459: The military bases established before the Battle of Red Cliffs ). Later in the year Cao Pi proclaimed himself the emperor of Cao Wei . Sun Quan declared independence in the following year, and started to build forts and palaces in Wuchang. Sun Quan proclaimed himself the emperor of Eastern Wu in 229, and moved the capital to Jianye . Sun Hao , the emperor of Eastern Wu between 264 and 280, moved

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288-709: The Ezhou city) was created. In 1926 the Wuchang town was promoted to a city, and merged with Hankou and Hanyang to form a new city named Wuhan . After 1949, the more urban part of the Wuchang County was absorbed into the new Wuhan City and was administratively partitioned into Wuchang, Qingshan and Hongshan districts, while the remaining, mostly rural, southern part retained the name of Wuchang County. In 1995, Wuchang County became Jiangxia District of Wuhan. Wuchang District administers: The Wuchang fish ( Megalobrama amblycephala ; 武昌鱼 ; 武昌魚 ; Wǔchāng yú )

312-574: The administration were merged into one level, typically rendered in English as prefecture, marking the end of the commandery. Some Emperors to referred to this level of administration as a jun ("commandery"), but most used zhou ("province") and the political function was the same, regardless. By the end of the Tang dynasty the term jun saw no more use in China (and a new higher tier of administrative unit,

336-413: The capital back to Wuchang in 265. In 589, the Wuchang commandery was abolished and the Wuchang county was transferred to a new commandery named Ezhou (headquartered in present-day Wuchang District), and remained in the administration since then. The Wuchang commandery was set up when È was renamed to Wuchang, and included six counties. In 223 the commandery was renamed to Jiangxia , and the capital of

360-674: The capital of Hubei province. During the Taiping Rebellion , Wuchang and the surrounding area changed hands several times after the Taiping capture of the city in the Battle of Wuchang (1852). At the end of the Qing Empire, the Wuchang Prefecture ( 武昌 府 , then transcribed as 'Ou-tchang-fou') was the capital of the combined provinces of Hubei and Hunan , called the 'two Hu' or Huguang Viceroyalty . It

384-550: The commandery moved to Xiakou (in present-day Wuchang town). The name of the town was switched back and forth between Wuchang and Jiangxia several times in the following centuries. The present-day version of Wuying Pagoda , the oldest standing architecture in Hubei Province, was built around the time of fall of the Southern Song Dynasty. After 1301, the Wuchang prefecture , headquartered in the town, became

408-409: The director-general of railways. Wuchang was not open to foreign trade and residence, but a considerable number of missionaries , both Roman Catholic and Protestant , lived within the walls. The native population was estimated at 800,000 around 1911, including cities on both banks. At that time, Wuchang was an important junction on the trunk railway from Beijing to Guangzhou; and was on the route of

432-713: The mouth of the Han River . The two other cities, Hanyang and Hankou , were on the left (northwestern) bank, separated from each other by the Han River. The name "Wuchang" remains in common use for the part of urban Wuhan south of the Yangtze River. Administratively, however, it is split between several districts of the City of Wuhan. The historic center of Wuchang lies within the modern Wuchang District, which has an area of 82.4 square kilometres (31.8 sq mi) and

456-469: The museum's collection has been recognized by the national government by including them into the list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad . On the afternoon of April 27, 2018, China's paramount leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Hubei Provincial Museum. 30°33′50″N 114°21′32″E  /  30.56389°N 114.35889°E  / 30.56389; 114.35889 This article related to

480-662: The six former states who were unwilling to submit to Qin rule. As a result, Qin Shi Huangdi set up 36 commanderies in the Qin Empire, each subdivided into counties. This established the first two-tier administrative system known to exist in China. When the Han dynasty triumphed over Chu in 206 BCE, the Zhou feudal system was initially reinstated, with Emperor Gaozu recognizing nearly independent kings and granting large territories to his relatives. These two sets of kingdoms were placed under hereditary rulers assisted by

504-557: The states' territories was by now comparatively larger, hence there was no need for the military might of a commandery in the inner regions where counties were established. The border commanderies' military and strategic significance became more important than those of counties. Following the unification of China in 221 BCE under the Qin Empire , the Qin government still had to engage in military activity because there were rebels from among

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528-528: Was greatly divided during the following five centuries, during the Jin and Northern and Southern dynasties period. The number of administrative units drastically increased due to intense warfare, fluid political boundaries, forced migrations, widespread population loss, and the loss of central government control in many areas particularly during the Sixteen Kingdoms . Although the legacy three-tier system

552-448: Was still in formal effect, rulers of various kingdoms had defined and re-defined provinces until they became increasingly sub-divided, blurring the distinction between provinces and commanderies and reflecting the chaos of China at the time. China was finally re-united by Emperor Wen of the Sui (581–618) in 589. As there were already over 100 provinces, the province and commandery levels of

576-425: Was the seat of the provincial government of Huguang, at the head of which was a viceroy of Huguang . Next to Nanjing and Guangzhou , it was one of the most important vice-royalties in the empire. It possessed an arsenal and a mint. The provincial government established ironworks for the manufacture of rails and other railway material. As the works did not pay under official management, they were transferred to

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