Qiemo County

Qiemo County

Coordinates: 38°08′09″N 85°31′48″E / 38.13583°N 85.53°E / 38.13583; 85.53

Location of Qiemo county (pink), in Bayin'gholin prefecture (yellow), in Xinjiang autonomous region of China
A view from the space of an alluvial fan in the foothills of the Altyn-Tagh in the western part of the county (37°26′55″N 84°16′53″E / 37.44861°N 84.28139°E / 37.44861; 84.28139)

The Qiemo County (Chinese: 且末), also known as Cherchen or Qarqan in the Uighur language, is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area is 138,645 square kilometres (53,531 sq mi) and, according to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000. The county seat is at Qiemo Town.

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Name

Main bazaar entrance, Cherchen

"Qiemo 且末 = modern Cherchen or Charchan (Uighur: Qarqan). There has been some confusion about this name as Chavannes (1907), p. 156, and then Stein (1921a), Vol. I, 296 ff., gave an incorrect romanization for the first character (Chavannes, using the French EFEO romanization system, gave tsiu, and Stein used the Wade-Giles equivalent, chü). In fact, the character is correctly rendered k’ie in EFEO, ch’ieh in Wade-Giles and qie in pinyin. Nevertheless, there has never been any serious dispute about its identification with modern Cherchen."[1]

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Lionel Giles has recorded the following names for Ruoqiang Town (with his Wade-Giles forms of the Chinese names converted to pinyin):

Jumo Han
Zuomo (左末) Song Yun
Jumo Jun [Sui]
Zhemotuona (折摩鴕那) Xuanzang
Boxian Zhen [Tang, after A.D. 674]
Jurjān [Mīrzā Haidar, sixteenth century]
Charcahn [modern name][2]

Geography

From the south to the north, the lands of the county run from the main range of the Kunlun Mountains (which forms the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region) to the middle of the Taklamakan Desert. The southernmost area of the county includes the northern side of part of the Ulugh Muztagh range (the main range of the Kunlun), and a section of the Altyn-Tagh range which runs roughly parallel to the main range of the Kunlun. Most of the county population lives in the northern foothills of the mountains, in the oases watered by snow-fed rivers.

The Qiemo River (Qarqan River) near the town of Qiemo is frozen for two to three months in the winter. From the foot of the mountains to the oasis of Qiemo, it has a faIl of nearly 4000 feet.

Climate

Climate data for Qiemo (1971−2000)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) −0.5
(31.1)
5.3
(41.5)
14.0
(57.2)
23.0
(73.4)
28.0
(82.4)
31.1
(88.0)
32.8
(91.0)
32.2
(90.0)
27.4
(81.3)
19.6
(67.3)
9.8
(49.6)
1.3
(34.3)
18.67
(65.60)
Average low °C (°F) −13.8
(7.2)
−9.3
(15.3)
−1.7
(28.9)
6.3
(43.3)
11.7
(53.1)
15.4
(59.7)
17.4
(63.3)
15.5
(59.9)
9.6
(49.3)
1.5
(34.7)
−5.2
(22.6)
−11.6
(11.1)
2.98
(37.37)
Precipitation mm (inches) .5
(0.02)
.4
(0.016)
.7
(0.028)
1.1
(0.043)
1.7
(0.067)
7.1
(0.28)
7.3
(0.287)
4.2
(0.165)
.7
(0.028)
.1
(0.004)
0
(0)
.4
(0.016)
24.2
(0.953)
Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.1 .7 .3 .5 1.0 2.9 3.5 1.8 .6 .1 .1 .8 13.4
Source: Weather China

History

The modern county is based on the ancient kingdom of Qiemo (且末) mentioned in the Hanshu and the Hou Hanshu. According to the Hanshu, during the Early Han it had 230 households, 1,610 individuals and 320 persons able to bear arms.[3]

"The ancient Chü-mo seems to have been located on the east of the Cherchen (Charchan) river, across from the modern Cherchen (Cherchen Bazar)."[4]

Transportation

The Qiemo Airport is located within this county.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hill (2009), p. 83.
  2. ^ Giles (1930-1932), p. 846.
  3. ^ Hill (2009), pp. 83-85.
  4. ^ Miller (1959), p. 24, n. 44.

References

  • Giles, Lionel (1930–1932). "A Chinese Geographical Text of the Ninth Century." BSOS VI, pp. 825–846.
  • Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1.
  • Miller, Roy Andrew (1959). Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty. University of California Press.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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