Yangshan County


Yangshan County is a county in the northwest of Guangdong Province, China, bordering Hunan province to the north. It is under the administration of the city of Qingyuan.
A military camp was established in the area in the late Qin dynasty. It was Emperor Han Wu Di who formally recognized Yangshan as a county. A Tang dynasty poet, Han You, visited it and wrote a poem about his journey, "The Travel Diary of Swallow Pavilion".

Other information

According to the Local Gazette of Guangdong, Yangshan County is the hometown of about six thousand Overseas Chinese. These Overseas Chinese settle in Malaysia, United States of America, etc.

In popular culture

In Grand Theft Auto V, according to Trevor Philips, Los Santos Triads leader Wei Cheng and his son Tao Cheng were born in Yangshan.

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