Shennongjia

alternative Shen-nung-chia · alternative Shên-nung-chia · alternative Shennungchia

1. A forestry district in western Hubei, China.

   He has acted in only two East-West movies: a deep-sea epic funded by a Chinese billionaire with a predominantly foreign cast, and a bigfoot movie shot in Shennongjia, a mountainous region in Hubei Province, where there have been hundreds of purported bigfoot sightings.

   2016 July 14, Mitch Moxley, “The American Who Accidentally Became a Chinese Movie Star”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2016

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   The area is the Shennungchia in Hupeh province, the mountainous region with the highest peak in central China, Patungya, reaching 10,000 feet. It is called the "natural botanical garden" and is on a watershed separating the Yangtse and Hanshui rivers, where the waters race through deep ravines quickly descending by hundreds of waterfalls, very picturesque and beautiful. As expected it has plentiful rainfall; however, the climate is cold and humid and, in fact the hilltops are often covered in mist.

   [1978 June 10, A. G. Mervyn Madge, “The potential of plants in remote China”, in Chemist & Druggist, Benn Publications Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 960, column 1

   The man, only identified by his family name, Jiang, on Jan. 24 drove his car back to Shennongjia, in northwestern Hubei, from eastern Ezhou, where he had close contact with his sister, who had been infected, according to the government website of Hubei, the virus epicenter.

   2020 February 22, Samuel Shen, Ryan Woo, “Coronavirus incubation could be as long as 27 days, Chinese provincial government says”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2020, World News