#jiangxi province

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

婺源wuyuan, jiangxi province

[reasonsforhope]

"In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept.

Through his architecture firm Turenscape, Yu has created hundreds of projects in dozens of cities using native plants, dirt, and clever planning to absorb excess rainwater and channel it away from densely populated areas.

Flooding, especially in the two Chinese heartlands of the commercial south and the agricultural north, is becoming increasingly common, but Yu says that concrete and pipe solutions can only go so far. They’re inflexible, expensive, and require constant maintenance. According to a 2021 World Bank report, 641 of China’s 654 largest cities face regular flooding.

“There’s a misconception that if we can build a flood wall higher and higher, or if we build the dams higher and stronger, we can protect a city from flooding,” Yu told CNN in a video call. “(We think) we can control the water… that is a mistake.”

Pictured: The Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok

Yu has been called the “Chinese Olmstead” referring to Frederick Law Olmstead, the designer of NYC’s Central Park. He grew up in a little farming village of 500 people in Zhejiang Province, where 36 weirs channel the waters of a creek across terraced rice paddies.

Once a year, carp would migrate upstream and Yu always looked forward to seeing them leap over the weirs.

This synthesis of man and nature is something that Turenscape projects encapsulate. These include The Nanchang Fish Tail Park, in China’s Jiangxi province, Red Ribbon Park in Qinghuandao, Hebei province, the Sanya Mangrove Park in China’s island province of Hainan, and almost a thousand others. In all cases, Yu utilizes native plants that don’t need any care to develop extremely spongey ground that absorbs excess rainfall.

Pictured: The Dong’an Wetland Park, another Turescape project in Sanya.

He often builds sponge projects on top of polluted or abandoned areas, giving his work an aspect of reclamation. The Nanchang Fish Tail Park for example was built across a 124-acre polluted former fish farm and coal ash dump site. Small islands with dawn redwoods and two types of cypress attract local wildlife to the metropolis of 6 million people.

Sanya Mangrove Park was built over an old concrete sea wall, a barren fish farm, and a nearby brownfield site to create a ‘living’ sea wall.

One hectare (2.47 acres) of Turenscape sponge land can naturally clean 800 tons of polluted water to the point that it is safe enough to swim in, and as a result, many of the sponge projects have become extremely popular with locals.

One of the reasons Yu likes these ideas over grand infrastructure projects is that they are flexible and can be deployed as needed to specific areas, creating a web of rain sponges. If a large drainage, dam, seawall, or canal is built in the wrong place, it represents a huge waste of time and money.

Pictured: A walkway leads visitors through the Nanchang Fish Tail Park.

The sponge city projects in Wuhan created by Turenscape and others cost in total around half a billion dollars less than proposed concrete ideas. Now there are over 300 sponge projects in Wuhan, including urban gardens, parks, and green spaces, all of which divert water into artificial lakes and ponds or capture it in soil which is then released more slowly into the sewer system.

Last year, The Cultural Landscape Foundation awarded Yu the $100,000 Oberlander Prize for elevating the role of design in the process of creating nature-based solutions for the public’s enjoyment and benefit."

-via Good News Network, August 15, 2024

[maureen2musings]

Wangxian Valley, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province

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[dream-world-universe]

Ancient Stone Bridge, Wuyuan, China: This 200 Year Old Ancient Stone Bridge is located in Wuyuan, China... Wuyuan, on the boundary of three provinces in Jiangxi's northeastern corner, has a landscape dotted with strange caves, deep secluded rocks and numerous historic sites. Wuyuan County is home to some of the best-preserved ancient architecture in China...Wuyuan is a county in northeastern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Zhejiang to the east and Anhui to the north. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Shangrao. Wikipedia

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Wangxian Township, Guangxin District, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China

@ Hwang199 Photography

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

this is a true story happend in fengcheng city丰城市, jiangxi province of china in 2022

[typhlonectes]

Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel (Pisces, Mastacembelidae) from the Zhu-Jiang Basin, with a note on the type locality of S. sinensis 

Peng Shan, Guangyu Li, E Zhang

Abstract

Background

The spiny eel genus Sinobdella belongs to the family Mastacembelidae of the order Synbranchiformes. Kottelat and Lim (1994) utilised Rhynchobdella sinensis as the type species to propose the genus. Currently, it contains a single species widespread in eastern and southern China and northern Vietnam.

New information

Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel, is here described from the Xi-Jiang of the Zhu-Jiang Basin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China. It differs from the single congeneric species S. sinensis in having a more or less white-brown reticulated pattern on the flank, two tubular anterior nostrils longer than or equal to the rostral appendage, an anal fin heavily mottled with dark brown markings and white spots and bearing a narrow white distal margin; shorter pre-anal length; and fewer abdominal vertebrae. The validity of this new species is corroborated by its monophyly recovered in a COI gene-based phylogenetic analysis and its significant sequence divergence with S. sinensis. A note on the type locality of S. sinensis is also given; its type specimen is possibly from mountain streams of Jiangxi Province, in the lower Chang-Jiang Basin.

Read the paper here: Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel (Pisces, Mastacembelidae) from the Zhu-Jiang Basin, with a note on the type locality of S. sinensis (Bleeker, 1870) (pensoft.net)

[geologyin-blog]

What do you think About these Fluorite crystals color from De’an mine, Jiangxi Province, China.?

📽️: Future_mineral

[new-dinosaurs]

Huaxiazhoulong shouwen Zhu et al., 2024 (new genus and species)

(Tail club of Huaxiazhoulong shouwen, from Zhu et al., 2024)

Meaning of name: Huaxiazhoulong = Chinese armor dragon [in Chinese]; shouwen = painted in the shape of a beast [in Chinese]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

Where found: Tangbian Formation, Jiangxi, China

How much is known: Partial skeleton of one individual including most major regions of the body other than the skull.

Notes: Huaxiazhoulong was an ankylosaurid ankylosaur, a group of armored dinosaurs in which most members had a bony club on the end of their tail. The club was likely used both as defense against predators and for fighting with members of their own species. Huaxiazhoulong can be distinguished from other known ankylosaurids in details of its hip and limb bones. It is estimated to have been about 6 m in total body length and is the first dinosaur to be named based on skeletal remains from the Tangbian Formation.

(Schematic skeletal of Huaxiazhoulong shouwen, from Zhu et al., 2024)

Reference: Zhu, Z., J. Wu, Y. You, Y. Jia, C. Chen, X. Yao, W. Zheng, and X. Xu. 2024. A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2024.2417208

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Jar, Jiangxi (province) c 1600, British Museum "Porcellaneous stoneware wine-jar of guan form, with ovoid body. The wine-jar has a gilt copper-bound mouthrim. The wine-jar has finely crazed turquoise glaze. There is an inscription on the shoulder."

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Jar, Jiangxi Province), ~ ca. 1600

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

tengwangge/pavilion of prince teng, jiangxi province in china (photo by 路壳马 and 橙城)

[lionofchaeronea]

A dragon chases a flaming pearl. Wheel-thrown porcelain bowl from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, manufactured between 1662 and 1722 (Qing Dynasty). Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.

[ecoharbor]

📍 Wangxian Valley Scenic Spot, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China 🇨🇳

[accio-victuuri]

some 3.14 treats for you 🌼🌼💛💛

happy 7th anniversary of their first meeting! here is a compilation of the fan works made by cpfs over at weibo to celebrate this day. it’s a lot and they deserve to be seen <3

bonus old cpn for you:

One of Xiao Zhan’s companies was registered in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province which is famous for its rapeseed flowers. this one was registered, 8/4/21. the place was also featured and mentioned in the TTXS episode where they first met as a hometown to these flowers and known as the most beautiful countryside in CHN. It’s interesting, the date it was registered, so close to WYB’s bday. and registering in that county, which he is not even remotely close to or his family. If there is one thing we know about XZ is that he is intentional with what he does and there is always a sense of significance to things he ties himself to.

this one seems like a gift to a certain someone. a place that holds those flowers that they were covered in when they first met.

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