Chongwu

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'''Chongwu''' Town ({{zh|崇武镇}}) is a township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.xzqh.org/html/fj/| title =福建省| publisher =xzqh.org| language =Chinese| accessdate =| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20120307032545/http://www.xzqh.org/html/fj/| archivedate =2012-03-07}}</ref>

Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peninsula jutting into Taiwan Strait. The town's historical center, the Old Chongwu Fortress ({{zh|崇武古城}}, ''Chongwu Gu Cheng'') is a walled city dating to the late 14th century (Hongwu Emperor's reign; the conventional date is 1384).<ref>[http://www.xiamenguide.com/view/viewDetail?id=257&r=2&cid=187 Walled City of Chongwu (崇武古城)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905020556/http://www.xiamenguide.com/view/viewDetail?id=257&r=2&cid=187 |date=2011-09-05 }}. Adapted from Magic Fujian© 2007 by Dr. Bill Brown</ref> The traditional Hui'an County vernacular architecture, making heavy use of the local granite, is largely preserved within the walled city. A large sculpture park is located on the narrow strip south of the fortress, between the city wall and the beach.

A memorial hall and the Chongwu Army temple (解放军庙) on the beach just west of town commemorate an engagement between the PLA infantry and the Nationalist air force that took place here in 1949.<ref>{{citation |first=Diana |last=Lary |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=1316240304 |title=China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945–1949 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yQq0BgAAQBAJ |page=264 }}</ref>

A significant amount of hospitality establishment, from luxury to budget hotels, are located outside the walled city.

Chongwu's eastern peninsula, extending east of central Chongwu into Taiwan Strait, contains a number of fishing and farming villages. Toward the east, the peninsula is split in two by the scenic Ben Ji An Bay ({{lang|zh|畚箕垵澳}}). A Neolithic archeological site, Dazuoshan ({{lang|zh|大岞山新石器时代遗址}}), is found on the "north fork" of the peninsula.

==Climate==

{{Weather box|width=auto |metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Chongwu Town, elevation {{convert|22|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) |Jan high C = 15.2 |Feb high C = 15.3 |Mar high C = 17.4 |Apr high C = 21.2 |May high C = 25.2 |Jun high C = 27.9 |Jul high C = 30.0 |Aug high C = 30.4 |Sep high C = 29.6 |Oct high C = 26.1 |Nov high C = 22.2 |Dec high C = 17.6 |Jan mean C = 12.5 |Feb mean C = 12.4 |Mar mean C = 14.5 |Apr mean C = 18.4 |May mean C = 22.7 |Jun mean C = 25.9 |Jul mean C = 27.7 |Aug mean C = 27.9 |Sep mean C = 27.0 |Oct mean C = 23.4 |Nov mean C = 19.5 |Dec mean C = 14.9 |Jan low C = 10.6 |Feb low C = 10.5 |Mar low C = 12.4 |Apr low C = 16.3 |May low C = 20.8 |Jun low C = 24.3 |Jul low C = 25.9 |Aug low C = 26.0 |Sep low C = 24.9 |Oct low C = 21.4 |Nov low C = 17.6 |Dec low C = 13.0 |Jan record high C = 25.2 |Jan record low C = 3.3 |Feb record high C = 26.0 |Feb record low C = 2.9 |Mar record high C = 25.6 |Mar record low C = 2.0 |Apr record high C = 28.2 |Apr record low C = 7.0 |May record high C = 30.6 |May record low C = 11.4 |Jun record high C = 32.5 |Jun record low C = 16.0 |Jul record high C = 34.7 |Jul record low C = 21.6 |Aug record high C = 36.7 |Aug record low C = 21.8 |Sep record high C = 35.2 |Sep record low C = 16.7 |Oct record high C = 33.7 |Oct record low C = 12.9 |Nov record high C = 29.6 |Nov record low C = 7.7 |Dec record high C = 25.4 |Dec record low C = 2.0 |year high C= |year low C= |year high F = |year low F = |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 38.5 |Feb precipitation mm = 65.5 |Mar precipitation mm = 93.3 |Apr precipitation mm = 99.0 |May precipitation mm = 156.6 |Jun precipitation mm = 182.4 |Jul precipitation mm = 104.7 |Aug precipitation mm = 135.0 |Sep precipitation mm = 96.1 |Oct precipitation mm = 44.0 |Nov precipitation mm = 36.1 |Dec precipitation mm = 37.2 |Jan humidity = 74 |Feb humidity = 77 |Mar humidity = 79 |Apr humidity = 82 |May humidity = 84 |Jun humidity = 89 |Jul humidity = 86 |Aug humidity = 84 |Sep humidity = 77 |Oct humidity = 71 |Nov humidity = 73 |Dec humidity = 72 |unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm |Jan precipitation days = 6.6 |Feb precipitation days = 9.0 |Mar precipitation days = 12.9 |Apr precipitation days = 12.5 |May precipitation days = 13.5 |Jun precipitation days = 12.5 |Jul precipitation days = 6.5 |Aug precipitation days = 8.5 |Sep precipitation days = 7.1 |Oct precipitation days = 3.1 |Nov precipitation days = 4.5 |Dec precipitation days = 5.9 |year precipitation days = |Jan sun = 131.4 |Feb sun = 106.5 |Mar sun = 120.0 |Apr sun = 130.9 |May sun = 144.1 |Jun sun = 176.8 |Jul sun = 268.7 |Aug sun = 248.0 |Sep sun = 216.1 |Oct sun = 204.5 |Nov sun = 157.7 |Dec sun = 141.6 |year sun = | Jan percentsun = 39 | Feb percentsun = 33 | Mar percentsun = 32 | Apr percentsun = 34 | May percentsun = 35 | Jun percentsun = 43 | Jul percentsun = 64 | Aug percentsun = 62 | Sep percentsun = 59 | Oct percentsun = 57 | Nov percentsun = 48 | Dec percentsun = 43 | year percentsun = |source 1 = China Meteorological Administration<ref name="cma graphical">{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref><ref> {{cite web|url=https://experience.arcgis.com/template/e724038fda394e9d9b7921f10fd1aa55/page/%E7%BA%AF%E8%A1%A8%E6%A0%BC%E7%BB%9F%E8%AE%A1-(%E5%AF%B9%E6%AF%948110%E5%8F%98%E5%8C%96)/?org=UQmaps |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网|publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans | access-date =23 June 2023}}</ref> }}

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Category:Township-level divisions of Fujian