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Xinfeng County, Guangdong

county in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province of China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ1346606 ↗
Source-derived summary

Xinfeng County (postal: Sunfung or Sinfeng; simplified Chinese: 新丰县; traditional Chinese: 新豐縣; pinyin: Xīnfēng Xiàn) is a county in the northeast of Guangdong Province, China. It is the southernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Shaoguan.

Editorial summary

“Xinfeng County, Guangdong” enters the record as county in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province of China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Xinfeng, County and Guangdong can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 37-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Xinfeng, County and Guangdong.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Xinfeng County, Guangdong” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Xinfeng, County and Guangdong provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1346606. VIAF identifies the subject as 123441955. The Library of Congress control number is no92027905. Authority coordinates are 24.061, 114.204. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Xinfeng County, Guangdong”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Xinfeng County, Guangdong primary sources, Xinfeng County, Guangdong archive and Xinfeng research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Xinfeng County, Guangdong”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Xinfeng County, Guangdong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.