Danyang

Danyang is a county-stage town located at the southwest financial institution of the Yangtze River, and is below the management of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, China. It is stated for the manufacturing of optical lenses utilized in sunglasses and eyeglasses. Danyang has a complete location of 1,059 km2 and a populace of roughly 890,000. Danyang locals communicate a dialect of Wu Chinese, and the city is on the linguistic borderline among Wu Chinese and Jianghuai Mandarin. During the period of the four Southern Dynasties from 420 to 589 A.D.

Whilst China’s countrywide capital was in Jiankang, Danyang become the place of origin of the emperors of the Southern Qi and Liang Dynasties, who have been buried inside the nation-state outdoor the metropolis. Today eleven of those Southern Dynasties imperial tombs can nonetheless be discovered to the east and northeast of the metropolis. They are great for his or her particular stone statues of legendary animals marking the sacred manner main to each imperial tomb.