Xiuning County ( simplified Chinese : 休宁县 ; traditional Chinese : 休寧縣 ; pinyin : Xiūníng Xiàn ) is a county in the south of Anhui Province , China, under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Huangshan City . The southernmost county-level division in the province, it has a population of 270,000 and an area of 2,125 square kilometres (820 sq mi). The government of Xiuning County is located in Haiyang Town ( 海阳镇 ).
7-533: Xiuning County has jurisdiction over nine towns and twelve townships. Xiuning County is divided to 10 towns and 11 townships. Xiuning County is historically renowned for producing more zhuàngyuán ( 状元 : the scholar with the highest score in the national Imperial examination ), than any other place in China. Accordingly, the large public space in Haiyang Town is called Zhuangyuan Square ( 状元广场 ). In 2009,
14-824: A living in traveling to Shanghai and running a pawn brokers business (as stated by the movie shown at the Peabody Essex Museum after exiting Yin Yu Tang House). In early 2008, the BBC broadcast a series of 5 documentaries on the life of pupils at schools in China. Called "Chinese School", the three schools documented were all located in Xiuning County: Xiuning High School, the top school in the county; Haiyang Middle/High School; and Ping Min Elementary School. This series
21-770: The Tang dynasty ) and Palace examination [ zh ] (in the Song dynasty ) in ancient China and Vietnam. In China, Fu Shanxiang is known as the first (and last) female zhuangyuan (nü zhuangyuan ) in Chinese history, but under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom , not the regular imperial exams. After the Taipings captured the city of Nanjing, they offered an exam for women in January 1853 in which Fu attained
28-684: The Xiuning County People's Government unveiled a monument commemorating the 1800th anniversary of Xiuning (208-2008). In 2003, the Peabody Essex Museum , in Salem, Massachusetts, completed a 200 million dollar renovation and expansion, designed by architect Moshe Safdie , moving a 200-year-old 16-room Chinese house from Xiuning County to the grounds of the Museum. While in China this house was home to many generations who made
35-466: The highest score. In Vietnam, the first de facto trạng nguyên was Lê Văn Thịnh , a Lý dynasty scholar. He was the chief negotiator who persuaded the Song to return the 6 districts of Quảng Nguyên (today Hà Giang province ) to Vietnam. Nevertheless, the first Vietnamese person to be trạng nguyên was in fact Khương Công Phụ under Chinese Tang Dynasty. The first female trạng nguyên (nữ trạng nguyên )
42-783: Was Nguyễn Thị Duệ , who later become a consort of the Mạc Emperor Mạc Kính Cung . She had previously been a consort of the Lê Emperor Lê Thần Tông , and would serve as an official in the Revival Lê dynasty after the fall of the Mạc dynasty. Under Nguyễn Dynasty , the title trạng nguyên was not officially abolished, yet its standards were too high that it was virtually unachievable. In total, there were 596 zhuangyuan in ancient China. In total, there were 56 trạng nguyên in ancient Vietnam. In modern Chinese, zhuangyuan
49-650: Was shown on BBC 4 and was received with mixed reactions, most of which were positive. Xiuning is served by the Anhui–Jiangxi Railway . Zhu%C3%A0ngyu%C3%A1n Zhuangyuan , or trạng nguyên in Vietnamese, variously translated into English as principal graduate , primus , or optimus , was the title given to the scholar who achieved the highest score on highest level of the Imperial examination , Metropolitan examination [ ja ] (in
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