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25-715: Qinglian (青莲) may refer to: Qinglian, Chongqing , a town in Fengjie County , Chongqing, China Qinglian, Guangdong , a town in Yangshan County , Guangdong, China Qinglian, Jiangyou , a town in Jiangyou , Sichuan, China Qinglian, Nanchong , a town in Nanchong , Sichuan, China [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with

50-500: Is also carried out such as the growing of tobacco, navel oranges, cotton, walnuts, and silkworm farming. Fengjie has one Yangtze River crossing , the Fengjie Yangtze River Bridge . Chen Maoguo ( simplified Chinese : 陈茂国 ; traditional Chinese : 陳茂國 ; pinyin : chén mào guó , aka the "bird man", Chinese “ 鸟人 ”) protested against the low compensation received from relocation plans following

75-471: Is based on that of the closest traditional unit; when confusion might arise, the word "market" ( 市 , shì ) is used to specify the traditional unit and "common" or "public" ( 公 , gōng ) is used for the metric value. Taiwan , like Korea , saw its traditional units standardized to Japanese values and their conversion to a metric basis, such as the Taiwanese ping of about 3.306   m based on

100-611: Is the Qutang Gorge , the first of the Yangtze's Three Gorges . Notable karst phenomena, including the Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole are located within the county. It is the place where Still Life was shot, a film by Jia Zhangke that won the 2006 Venice Film Festival ( Golden Lion ). The Fengjie county was established in 314 BC as Yufu County (魚復縣). In 649 AD, the name was changed to Fengjie, an reference to

125-512: The Chinese dynasties usually proclaimed standard measurements and recorded their predecessor's systems in their histories . In the present day, the People's Republic of China maintains some customary units based upon the market units but standardized to round values in the metric system , for example the common jin or catty of exactly 500   g . The Chinese name for most metric units

150-578: The International System of Units (SI) metric system. The Weights and Measures Ordinance defines the metric, Imperial, and Chinese units. As of 2012, all three systems are legal for trade and are in widespread use. On 24 August 1992, Macau published Law No. 14/92/M to order that Chinese units of measurement similar to those used in Hong Kong, Imperial units , and United States customary units would be permissible for five years since

175-555: The Nationalist government adopted and promulgated The Weights and Measures Act to adopt the metric system as the official standard and to limit the newer Chinese units of measurement ( Chinese : 市用制 ; pinyin : shìyòngzhì ; lit. 'market-use system') to private sales and trade in Article 11, effective on 1 January 1930. These newer "market" units are based on rounded metric numbers. The Government of

200-688: The Zhou dynasty , the king conferred nobles with powers of the state and the measurement units began to be inconsistent from state to state. After the Warring States period , Qin Shi Huang unified China, and later standardized measurement units. In the Han dynasty , these measurements were still being used, and were documented systematically in the Book of Han . Astronomical instruments show little change of

225-560: The Chinese word 絲 (T) or 丝 (S) sī is used to express 0.01 mm. These correspond to the measures listed simply as "China" in The Measures, Weights, & Moneys of All Nations Metric and other standard length units can be squared by the addition of the prefix 平方 píngfāng . For example, a square kilometre is 平方公里 píngfāng gōnglǐ . These units are used to measure cereal grains, among other things. In imperial times,

250-546: The People's Republic of China continued using the market system along with metric system, as decreed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China on 25 June 1959, but 1 catty being 500 grams, would become divided into 10 (new) taels , instead of 16 (old) taels, to be converted from province to province , while exempting Chinese prescription drugs from the conversion to prevent errors. On 27 February 1984,

275-561: The State Council of the People's Republic of China decreed the market system to remain acceptable until the end of 1990 and ordered the transition to the national legal measures by that time, but farmland measures would be exempt from this mandatory metrication until further investigation and study. In 1976 the Hong Kong Metrication Ordinance allowed a gradual replacement of the system in favor of

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300-532: The bibliography is quite vast. The editions of Wu Chenglou's 1937 History of Chinese Measurement were the usual standard up to the 1980s or so, but rely mostly on surviving literary accounts. Newer research has put more emphasis on archeological discoveries. Qiu Guangming & Zhang Yanming's 2005 bilingual Concise History of Ancient Chinese Measures and Weights summarizes these findings. A relatively recent and comprehensive bibliography, organized by period studied, has been compiled in 2012 by Cao & al.; for

325-580: The construction of a road entailing the demolition of his house. He was sentenced to prison for 3 years. Chinese units of measurement#Area Chinese units of measurement , known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese . Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang , several Chinese measures use hexadecimal (base-16). Local applications have varied, but

350-464: The county is 1.04 million with male population of 540,000 persons, accounting for 51.9% and female population of 500,000 persons, accounting for 48.1%. Subdistricts: Towns: Townships: The GDP of Fengjie County ranked 25th among 40 county-level divisions (counties and districts) in Chongqing and 6th among all divisions in the northeast of Chongqing (11 counties and districts) in 2007. In 2007,

375-625: The effective date of the Law, 1 January 1993, on the condition of indicating the corresponding SI values, then for three more years thereafter, Chinese, Imperial, and US units would be permissible as secondary to the SI. Traditional units of length include the chi ( 尺 ), bu ( 步 ), and li ( 里 ). The precise length of these units, and the ratios between these units, has varied over time. 1 bu has consisted of either 5 or 6 chi , while 1 li has consisted of 300 or 360 bu . All "metric values" given in

400-512: The family income for the local rural residents. In some families, all the members are migrant labor. Their major occupations in urban areas cover restaurant operation, retailing and private business. The area of land cultivated is 58,933 ha and with a per-capita land area of 0.85 mu . The major crops grown in the area include rice, corn, potato, sweet potato, oil plant and vegetable and major animals raised include pigs, cattle, sheep, poultry and fish. Apart from conventional agriculture, cash cropping

425-655: The legendary Yellow Emperor created the first measurement units. The Xiao Erya and the Kongzi Jiayu state that length units were derived from the human body. According to the Records of the Grand Historian , these human body units caused inconsistency, and Yu the Great , another legendary figure, unified the length measurements. Rulers with decimal units have been unearthed from Shang dynasty tombs. In

450-609: The length of chi in the following centuries, since the calendar needed to be consistent. It was not until the introduction of decimal units in the Ming dynasty that the traditional system was revised. On 7 January 1915, the Beiyang government promulgated a measurement law to use not only metric system as the standard but also a set of Chinese-style measurement based directly on the Qing dynasty definitions ( 营造尺库平制 ). On 16 February 1929,

475-414: The loyalty of Zhuge Liang . Fengjie County is located in the northeast of Chongqing, bordering Wushan County in the east, Enshi City ( Hubei ) in the south, Yunyang County in the west and Wuxi County in the north. It is 500 km (310 mi) away from downtown Chongqing, and administers 30 townships, 363 administrative villages and 23 residential committee. By the end of 2008, the population of

500-432: The mass of objects. They are also famous for measuring monetary objects such as gold and silver. The Chinese word for gram is 克 kè ; this can take the Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "milli-", "deca-", and so on). A kilogram, however, is commonly called 公斤 gōngjīn , i.e. a metric jīn . These are used for trading precious metals such as gold and silver. As there were hundreds of unofficial measures in use,

525-492: The per capita net income of the peasants in Fengjie County is CNY 2,717. It is known that the "collectively owned" land in Fengjie County were allocated the second time in 2005 after the first time in 1982-1983. Since then, the land has not been reallocated. Fengjie County Government encourages rural residents affected by development projects to become urban residents. Migrant labor constitutes also an important part of

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550-460: The physical standard for these was the jialiang . In the case of volume, the market and metric shēng coincide, being equal to one litre as shown in the table. The Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "milli-", "centi-", etc.) may be added to this word shēng . Units of volume can also be obtained from any standard unit of length using the prefix 立方 lìfāng ("cubic"), as in 立方米 lìfāng mǐ for one cubic metre. These units are used to measure

575-498: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qinglian&oldid=836942923 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fengjie County The county's most famous geographical feature

600-461: The square ken . The Hong Kong SAR continues to use its traditional units , now legally defined based on a local equation with metric units. For instance, the Hong Kong catty is precisely 604.789 82  g . Note: The names lí ( 釐 or 厘 ) and fēn ( 分 ) for small units are the same for length, area, and mass; however, they refer to different kinds of measurements. According to the Liji ,

625-461: The tables are exact unless otherwise specified by the approximation sign '~'. Certain units are also listed at List of Chinese classifiers → Measurement units . The Chinese word for metre is 米 mǐ ; this can take the Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "kilo-", "centi-", etc.). A kilometre , however, may also be called 公里 gōnglǐ , i.e. a metric lǐ . In the engineering field, traditional units are rounded up to metric units. For example,

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