Hui'an ( ) is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian coast, between Quanzhou and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as of late 2003, with a non-agricultural population of 289,396 people. The dialect is Hui'an dialect, related to Hokkien.
Administrative divisions The county is divided into fifteen towns and one ethnic township. The only township in the county is Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township.
Towns (), the county seat (the location marked on most maps as "Hui'an") Luòyáng (), Chongwu (), Dongyuan (), Zhangban (), Dongling (), Wangchuan (), Tuzhai (), Luóyáng (), Huangtang (), Shanxia (), Jingfeng (), Dongqiao (), Zishan (), Xiaozuo ()
Economy
Hui'an people have long been engaged in quarrying local granite and using it for construction purposes. Traditional houses and other structures in the region are constructed from long narrow blocks of granite.
These days, Hui'an's stone workers have built on their experience by becoming manufacturers of stone statuary for China's temples, public places, businesses, and private residences. The road (Huichong Highway) between the Hui'an County seat and the town of Chongwu has a lot of production plants and showrooms of stone-working companies, with statues of all kinds displayed in front of them.
Footwear manufacturing is developed in a number of towns in the western part of the county, closer to Quanzhou.
Dali Foods Group has its headquarters in Hui'an County."" Businessweek. Retrieved on March 1, 2014. "Linkou Hui'an County Quanzhou, 362100 China ""联系我们 ." Dali Group. Retrieved on March 1, 2014. "福建达利食品集团有限公司 地址：中国福建省惠安林口"
Transportation
The Hui'an Railway Station, on the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway, is located about northwest of Hui'an's county seat, and is connected to it by a new divided highway (that passes through the Dalingtou Tunnel []), with frequent local bus service. Although a lot fewer trains stop at Hui'an than at major stations such as Quanzhou, there is a train in each direction every hour or two during the day. There is no night service.
The freight-only Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo Railway runs south of the county seat.
Culture Traditional dress in Hui'an county for young women ("Hui'an maidens") was particularly colorful featuring elaborate headgear and exposed midriffs. This gave rise to a frequent misconception that Hui'an county people were not Han Chinese, as well as the joke that the dress of Hui'an is "feudal heads, democratic bellies." Depictions of this mode of dress in popular culture include the film Village of Widows, which deals with sexual mores along the Fujian coast.
Climate
References