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Chengdu
City (pop., 1990: 1,713,000), capital of Sichuan province, China. It lies in the fertile Chengdu plain, the site of one of China's most ancient and successful irrigation systems, watered by the Min River. First set up in the late 3rd cent. BC, the system has survived, and it enables the area to support what has been called the densest agrarian population in the world. Chengdu was the capital of various dynasties, and in the 10th cent. AD it was immensely prosperous; its merchants introduced the use of paper money, which spread throughout China under the Song dynasties. In medieval times it was famous for its brocades and satins. The capital of Sichuan since 1368, it has remained a major administrative center. Today it is a transportation and industrial hub, as well as an educational center.


sheng
(Chinese: "sage" or "saint") In Chinese belief, a mortal who attains extraordinary or supernatural powers by self-cultivation and serves as a model for others. Confucius used the term to refer to exemplary rulers of the past.


Changan
Ancient capital of China during the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties, near present-day Xi'an. From the mid-4th cent. it was a center of Buddhist studies. Wendi, first emperor of the Sui, expanded Changan: its outer walls were 6 mi (9.7 km) by 5 mi (8.2 km), with 14 avenues running north-south and 11 running east-west. The center of the N boundary was the site of the imperial palace; in front of it was an administrative compound 3 mi (4.5 km) square. Until the proscription of foreign religions in the 840s, Changan contained numerous Buddhist temples, along with Nestorian, Manichaean, and Zoroastrian churches and many Taoist monasteries. It was reduced to ruins in the 880s by the rebel Huang Zhao, and future dynasties established their capitals elsewhere.


Ghent
City (pop., 1996 est.: 226,000), capital of E. Flanders province, NW Belgium. One of the chief towns of the medieval county of Flanders, it was by the 13th cent. one of the largest towns in N Europe. Its prosperity was based on its manufacture of luxury cloths, which were famous throughout Europe. It began to decline in the late 16th cent., when its cloth was unable to compete with England's. Its economy revived with the introduction of cotton-spinning machinery (in particular, a power loom smuggled out of England), and it subsequently became the center of the Belgian textiles industry. Belgium's second-largest port, it is also a horticultural center.


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