Hutubi County

Hutubi County
呼图壁县
قۇتۇبى ناھىيىسى
County

Location of Hutubi County (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang (light grey)
Coordinates: 44°8.627′N 86°56.91284′E / 44.143783°N 86.94854733°E / 44.143783; 86.94854733Coordinates: 44°8.627′N 86°56.91284′E / 44.143783°N 86.94854733°E / 44.143783; 86.94854733
Country People's Republic of China
Autonomous region Xinjiang
Autonomous prefecture Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Township-level divisions 6 towns
1 township
1 ethnic township
County seat Hutubi Town (呼图壁镇)
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Hutubi County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 呼图壁县
Traditional Chinese 呼圖壁縣
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 景化县
Traditional Chinese 景化縣
Uyghur name
Uyghur
قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى

Hutubi County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Kutubi County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 9,476 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 210,000.

Hutubi is 61.7 km (38.3 mi) by road north-west of Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang.[1]

Transport

Hutubi is served by China National Highway 312, the Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürümqi-Jinghe Railways.

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs were recorded in Qutubi County at Kangjiashimenzi (Chinese: 康家石门子; pinyin: Kāngjiāshíménzi) and are interpreted as representing male fertility worship. This is because in the two depictions of copulation, the males have faces on their chests, suggesting that the petroglyph's creators believed that males were the source of children. The alleged superiority of the petroglyph's male subjects was the basis for the researcher's conclusion that they were created after 1500 BCE, when it is believed that matriarchal societies were replaced by patriarchies.[2]

Footnotes

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  2. ↑ Wang Binghua (王炳华) (1992). 新疆呼圖壁生殖崇拜巖畫 [The rock-art of fertility worship at Hutubi, Xinjiang]. Beijing: Beijing Yanshan Press. p. 54.


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