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Pingnan County
Pingnan County is a county-level city located west of Ningde, Fujian, China. Pingnan, which is located in Ningde Prefecture Level City, has a total land area of 1485 km2, with population approximately 181,000 residents. Pingnan County is "the hometown of summer mushrooms", and the annual productivity of Xiangu mushrooms is more than 6,000 tons. It's the largest export base of summer mushrooms in China. There are some famous fruits such as Younai plums, seedless persimmons, chinquapis, yangtaos, Wuyan peas and many more.
Pingnan was founded as a county during Qing Dynasty in 1735 AD. Pingnan is also one of the key towns of overseas Chinese in Fujian Province and there are more than 60,000 people overseas. There are famous tourist spots and national protected areas of mandarin ducks and macaques.
Siping Opera of Pingnan County
Pingnan County has long been known as “Hometown of Chinese Folk Operas”. Locally called “Plebeian Opera”, and praised as “Living Fossil of Siping Melody of Ming Dynasty”, Siping Opera is an old-fashioned opera originating from the region of Huizhou, Anhui in Jiajing Reign of the Ming Dynasty. It is mainly composed of Siping Melody, which is sung without makeup and acting on the stage and chimed by the backstage. At the brink of extinction in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, it was introduced into Fujian. Since then, over 400 hundred years have passed. At the height of power and splendor, the opera was once spread all over Pingnan County and 20-odd villages of its neighboring counties and cities, even to as far as Southwest Jiangxi and East Zhejiang.
Ningde Prefecture |
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Jiaocheng District |
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Fuding City - Fu'an City - Gutian County -
Pingnan County - Shouning County - Xiapu County - Zherong County - Zhouning County |