- Taikang County
Taikang County (Chinese: 太康县;
Pinyin : Tàikāng Xiàn) is a county in the north ofZhoukou Municipality,Henan . It is divided into 23 townships and 766 villages. The county is home to 1.43 millionHan Chinese and 25,000 Hui, with a population density of 581 people per kilometre squared.History
The name comes from the
Xia Dynasty king Taikang, who sited his capital in the area. It was also called Yangxia, also a reference to the Xia king. As a major thoroughfare, the county has been historically important. It was the hometown ofWu Guang , one of the peasant leaders of the rebellion against theQin Dynasty . It was also theancestral hometown of theXia (surname) andYuan (surname) clans, who dominated the government of theSouthern Dynasties .Today, Taikang is a primarily
agrarian county, with somelight industry . The county is famous for its production ofcotton .
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