Lingnan is the general name of the area south of Wuling in southern China. Wuling consists of five mountains: Yuechengling, Dupangling, Mengzhuling, Qitianling and Dayuling, which are generally distributed at the junction of eastern Guangxi, eastern Guangdong and Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.
The area south of Wuling Mountain Range is mainly Han nationality area. Since ancient times, Lingnan area has belonged to Yangzhou in Kyushu of Han Dynasty. Administratively, Lingnan was the name of Lingnan Road in the Tang Dynasty, which was equivalent to all the territories of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and the Red River Delta in Vietnam, which once belonged to the Chinese dynasty.
Later, it was divided into Lingnan East Road and Lingnan West Road, which was the beginning of the division of Guangdong and Guangxi. Now the word Lingnan, especially Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macao, is the regional scope of South China today.
Climate environment
Lingnan is bounded by Wuling. On the border of Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, there is a mountain range running northeast and southwest, called Wuling. According to the textual research of ancient books, the area south of Wuling is Lingnan area. It is located at the southernmost tip of China, on the southern border of China, bordering Nanling in the north, Nanhai in the south, Yunnan-Guizhou in the west and Fujian in the east.
Lingnan region belongs to the south of East Asian monsoon climate zone, and has the characteristics of tropical and subtropical monsoon maritime climate. Most areas in Lingnan belong to subtropical humid monsoon climate, and the south of Lingshui Island and South China Sea Islands belong to tropical climate. There is a great temperature difference between the south of Lingnan and the north of Lingnan. Generally, it snows only in the northern part of Lingnan in winter, and rarely in the southern part of Lingnan.
In most areas, summer is long and winter is short, and there is no frost and snow all year round. The amount of solar radiation is large and the sunshine time is long. Taking Guangdong Province as an example, the average sunshine hours in all parts of the province range from 1450 hours to 2300 hours.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lingnan