Yangshan | |
Other Name: | Yeungshan |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Settlement Type: | County |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Guangdong |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Qingyuan |
Area Total Km2: | 3372 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | China Standard |
Utc Offset: | +8 |
Yangshan County (postal: Yeungshan;) is a county in the northwest of Guangdong Province, China, bordering Hunan province to the north. It is under the administration of the city of Qingyuan.
A military camp was established in the area in the late Qin dynasty. It was Emperor Han Wu Di who formally recognized Yangshan as a county. A Tang dynasty poet, Han You (Chinese: 韓愈), visited it and wrote a poem about his journey, "The Travel Diary of Swallow Pavilion" (Chinese: < 燕喜亭記>).
other information: according to local gazette of Guangdong (《 廣東史志>), yangshan county is hometown of about six thousand overseas chinese, these overseas chinese settle in Malaysia, United States of America, etc.
In Grand Theft Auto V, according to Trevor Philips, Los Santos Triads leader Wei Cheng and his son Tao Cheng were born in Yangshan.