Yuping Dong Autonomous County (Chinese: 玉屏侗族自治县; Pinyin: Yùpíng dòngzú Zìzhìxiàn) is an autonomous county in Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China.
Area: 516 km2.
Population: 140,000 in 2002.
Postal Code: 554000.
The county government is located in Pingxi town.
The county produces a special instrument "Yuping Flute" (玉屏箫笛).
Famous quotes containing the words dong, autonomous and/or county:
“With hym ther was a plowman, was his brother,
That hadde ylad of dong ful many a fother.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)