Which province and city does Yangyuan County belong to?
Yangyuan County belongs to Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.
Yangyuan County is surrounded by mountains from north to south, and the Sanggan River runs across the entire territory from west to east. The landforms include mountains, piedmont hills, plains, and rivers. The general characteristics are high in the southwest, low in the northeast, high in the south, and high in the north. It is low and is a long and narrow basin with two mountains sandwiched between one river. The average altitude is about 1,100 meters, the lowest altitude is 770 meters, and the highest altitude is 2,045.9 meters. Yangyuan County is 82 kilometers long from east to west and about 27 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 1,849 square kilometers.
Yangyuan County has a temperate monsoon climate. The spring is dry and rainless, and the summer is hot and short, with frequent thunderstorms. The rainfall accounts for about 62%-67% of the whole year. The climate in autumn is cool and the temperature drops quickly. Winter is cold and dry, with large temperature differences between day and night.
Charming Attractions
The Shujiu Temple Pagoda is exquisite, beautiful and unique in style. It combines the pagoda-building art of Han and Tibetan pagodas. It not only shows the Han and Tibetan pagodas in Zhangjiakou area. The blend of Mongolian and Tibetan cultures also records the outstanding architectural ideas and skills of ancient craftsmen. The Shujiu Temple Pagoda is conical in shape and consists of three parts: the pagoda base, the pagoda body, and the pagoda temple.
Zhulin Temple is located in Qingyuan Mountain, 40 kilometers northeast of Yangyuan County. Zhulin Temple is located on the middle peak of Qingyuan Mountain. The mountain is composed of five towering peaks. People are accustomed to calling these five peaks the East, South, West, North, and Middle and Small Five Mountains respectively. The surrounding peaks are like lotus petals, the middle peak is like a lotus platform, and the entire mountain is like a lotus, so it is called Wuyue Lotus Mountain. In the old days, there was a Wuyue Temple on the mountain.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Yangyuan County