Hunan
Hunan (Chinese: 湖南; pinyin: Húnán; 
listen (info • help)) is a province of South Central China, in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting (The characters in the name Hunan mean "lake" and "south"[1]). Hunan is sometimes called 湘 (pinyin: Xiāng) for short, after the Xiang River which runs through the province.
Its major cities are Changde, Changsha, Chenzhou, Hengyang, Huaihua, Loudi, Shaoyang, Xiangtan, Yiyang, Yongzhou, Yueyang, Zhangjiajie and Zhuzhou.
Hunan Media
Fenghuang, a traditional town of Hunan
第一次長沙作戦で対岸の国府軍と交戦する第四師団の兵士。湖南省新市南方の同楽橋附近にて、昭和16年9月22～23日頃。*A soldier of the IJA 4th Division firing type 92 heavy machine gun during the 1st round of Chángshā operation. Near Miluo river (汨水), Húnán Province, China.
Young Mao Zedong statue in Changsha
Ethnic minorities areas in Hunan
This is a photo taken when the sauce is put under sunshine
Puguang Buddhist Temple in Zhangjiajie.
An ancestral shrine in the province.
References
- ↑ (in Chinese) Origin of the Names of China's Provinces Archived 2016-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, People's Daily Online.
