Fengkai County

Fengkai County 封开县
County
Fengkai Location in Guangdong
Coordinates: 23°27′N 111°28′E / 23.450°N 111.467°ECoordinates: 23°27′N 111°28′E / 23.450°N 111.467°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
Prefecture-level city	Zhaoqing
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)

Fengkai
Traditional Chinese	封開
Simplified Chinese	封开
Literal meaning	Sealed-&-Open Fengchuan-&-Kaijian
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fēngkāi Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Fung^1-hoi^1

Former names
Fengzhou
Chinese	封州
Literal meaning	Seal(ed) Prefecture
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fēngzhōu
Fengchuan
Chinese	封川
Postal	Fungchun
Literal meaning	Seal(ed) River
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fēngchuān
Kaijian
Traditional Chinese	開建
Simplified Chinese	开建
Postal	Hoikin
Literal meaning	Open(ing) Establishment
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Kāijiàn

Fengkai County is a county in western Guangdong Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhaoqing. It was formed in 1961 from the merger of Fengchuan and Kaijian Counties, which were formerly romanized as Fungchuan^{[lower-alpha 1]} and Hoikin^{[lower-alpha 2]} respectively.

History

Fengkai (as Fengzhou) on the 1136 Yuji Tu

Feng Prefecture or Fengzhou was a prefecture of the Tang and Song empires.

Under the Qing, Fengchuan and Kaijian made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing.^[1]

Notes

1. Fengchuan was also sometimes romanized as Fung Chuen.^[1]
2. Kaijian was also sometimes romanized as Kae Kin.^[1]

References

Citations

1. Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.

Bibliography

• Bolton, Kingsley; et al. (1941), Triad Societies, Vol. 5, Abingdon: Routledge, reprinted 2000.