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}} |official_name = |postal_code_type = Postal code |postal_code = 431900 |settlement_type = County-level City |image_skyline = |image_map = |map_caption = Location of the county |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = People's Republic of China |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Hubei |subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city |subdivision_name2 = Jingmen |subdivision_type3 = Township-level divisions |subdivision_name3 = 1 subdistrict 15 towns 1 township |seat_type = Seat |seat = Yingzhong Subdistrict (郢中街道) |area_code = 0724 |area_total_km2 = 4488 |population_as_of = |population_density_km2 = auto |population_total = 1032568 |pushpin_map = Hubei |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Hubei |pushpin_map_size = 250 |coordinates_display = inline,title |latNS = N |latd = 31 |latm = 10 |longEW = E |longd = 112 |longm = 35 |elevation_m = 66 |timezone = China Standard |utc_offset = +8 |website = http://www.zhongxiang.gov.cn/ }} Zhongxiang () is a county-level city of Jingmen, central Hubei province, People's Republic of China. The name ''Zhongxiang'' means "Blessed with propitious omen", and was given to the city by the Jiajing Emperor in the Ming dynasty. Zhongxiang is a well-known historical and cultural city in China. ==History== Zhongxiang is one of the cradles of Chu culture. It was the alternate capital of the Chu state in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. Because the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1521–1567) of the Ming dynasty was born and had lived in the city before he succeeded to the throne, Zhongxiang, the place where the Chengtian Prefecture (''fu'') Government Office was located, became one of the three major prefectures directly under the central government. Once on the throne, the Jiajing Emperor controversially had his dead father Zhu Youyuan (1476–1519) retroactively styled as the Gongruixian Emperor; his mother became the Zhangsheng empress dowager. They were buried at a sumptuous mausoleum, knowns as the Xianling Tomb, a few kilometers northeast of Zhongxiang.〔Eric N. Danielson, "(The Ming Ancestor Tomb )"〕 During the Jiajing Emperor's reign, a large estate owned by the emperor occupied a significant part of Chengtian Prefecture, and was run by the same eunuch who was in charge of the protection of the mausoleum.〔Shih-shan Henry Tsai, ''The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty''. SUNY Press, 1996. ISBN 0-7914-2687-4. (Partial text ) on Google Books. P. 168〕 The mausoleum complex is now a tourist site; it was included on the List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2000, as one of the Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.〔(Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dyansties ). See in particular the ( China's official nomination document ) for the UNESCO, with a large chapter on Xianling.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zhongxiang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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