Dao County 道县 | |
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  Daoxian Location of the seat in Hunan | |
| Coordinates:25°31′37″N111°36′04″E / 25.527°N 111.601°E /25.527; 111.601[1] | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hunan |
| Prefecture-level city | Yongzhou |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,441.03 km2 (942.49 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[3] | |
• Total | 605,799 |
| • Density | 248.174/km2 (642.766/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 4253XX |
Dao County (simplified Chinese:道县;traditional Chinese:道縣;pinyin:Dào Xiàn) is acounty inHunan Province, China. It is under the administration ofYongzhou prefecture-level City.
Located on the southern margin of the province, it is adjacent to the northeastern border ofGuangxi. The county borders to the northeast byShuangpai County, to the east byNingyuan County, to the south byJianghua County, to the southwest byJiangyong County, and to the northwest and the north byGuanyang andQuanzhou Counties of Guangxi. Dao County covers 2,448 km2 (945 sq mi), and as of 2015, it had a registered population of 802,800 and a resident population of 624,600.[4] The county has 11towns, fourtownships and 7subdistricts under its jurisdiction, and thecounty seat isLianxi (濂溪街道).[5]
Forces of theTaiping Rebellion stopped by Daozhou on their way toChangsha andWuchang,Hubei. They convinced 20,000 locals to join the rebellion.
The 1967 mass killing in Dao County, known as the Dao County Massacre, lasted 66 days from August 13 to October 17, 1967. It resulted in 4,519 dead, of whom 4,193 were killed outright and 326 were forced to commit suicide.[6]
There are two principal features of this massacre. The first one is that it took place during the Cultural Revolution. The other is that nearly 90 percent of the victims were labeled as "class enemies", i.e., the so-called Black Five Categories (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, "bad elements," and rightists) and their family members.[7]
| Climate data for Daoxian, elevation 192 m (630 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 26.3 (79.3) | 31.2 (88.2) | 32.9 (91.2) | 33.8 (92.8) | 35.1 (95.2) | 37.5 (99.5) | 39.3 (102.7) | 39.5 (103.1) | 38.2 (100.8) | 36.5 (97.7) | 32.7 (90.9) | 27.5 (81.5) | 39.5 (103.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) | 14.0 (57.2) | 17.4 (63.3) | 23.8 (74.8) | 28.0 (82.4) | 30.9 (87.6) | 33.5 (92.3) | 33.2 (91.8) | 30.1 (86.2) | 25.4 (77.7) | 20.1 (68.2) | 14.1 (57.4) | 23.5 (74.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.1 (50.2) | 13.6 (56.5) | 19.4 (66.9) | 23.6 (74.5) | 26.7 (80.1) | 28.9 (84.0) | 28.3 (82.9) | 25.3 (77.5) | 20.5 (68.9) | 15.2 (59.4) | 9.6 (49.3) | 19.1 (66.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.1 (41.2) | 7.4 (45.3) | 10.8 (51.4) | 16.2 (61.2) | 20.4 (68.7) | 23.8 (74.8) | 25.5 (77.9) | 24.9 (76.8) | 22.0 (71.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 11.7 (53.1) | 6.5 (43.7) | 15.9 (60.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −3.8 (25.2) | −2.6 (27.3) | 0.1 (32.2) | 4.2 (39.6) | 10.7 (51.3) | 15.0 (59.0) | 18.9 (66.0) | 19.8 (67.6) | 13.4 (56.1) | 5.4 (41.7) | −0.5 (31.1) | −5.4 (22.3) | −5.4 (22.3) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 82.4 (3.24) | 89.6 (3.53) | 174.2 (6.86) | 215.2 (8.47) | 264.2 (10.40) | 223.9 (8.81) | 145.9 (5.74) | 141.2 (5.56) | 52.6 (2.07) | 67.4 (2.65) | 79.8 (3.14) | 57.8 (2.28) | 1,594.2 (62.75) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 14.8 | 13.8 | 19.1 | 17.5 | 17.3 | 16.7 | 11.7 | 12.7 | 8.1 | 7.3 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 158.9 |
| Average snowy days | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 4.2 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 79 | 79 | 82 | 80 | 80 | 81 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 73 | 74 | 74 | 77 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 58.1 | 55.8 | 59.5 | 93.7 | 120.0 | 137.7 | 221.2 | 198.4 | 155.3 | 133.5 | 118.5 | 99.1 | 1,450.8 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 17 | 17 | 16 | 24 | 29 | 34 | 53 | 50 | 42 | 38 | 37 | 30 | 32 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[8][9] | |||||||||||||
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