Lintan County

Lintan County
临潭县 · བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།
Bazê
Fort in Liushun town
Lintan (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) within Gansu (grey)
Lintan
Location of the seat in Gansu
Lintan
Lintan (China)
Coordinates: 34°42′N 103°40′E / 34.700°N 103.667°E / 34.700; 103.667
CountryChina
ProvinceGansu
Autonomous prefectureGannan
County seatChengguan (Zhacêr)
Area
  Total
1,557.68 km2 (601.42 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
127,387
  Density82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
747500
Websitewww.lintan.gov.cn
Lintan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese临潭县
Traditional Chinese臨潭縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLíntán Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། or བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་། or བཱ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylielin than rdzong or ba tse rdzong or bā tse rdzong
Tibetan PinyinLintan Zong or Bazê Zong

Lintan County (Chinese: 临潭县, Tibetan: བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།) is an administrative district in Gansu, China. It is one of 58 counties of Gansu. It is part of the Gannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747500, and in 1999 its population was 148,722 people.

Tibetans of Taozhou helped crush the Muslim rebels in the Dungan revolt (1895–1896) like they did in the 1781 Jahriyya revolt. The loyalist Muslims of Táozhōu also fight against the Muslim rebels and Muslim rebel leader Ma Yonglin's entire family was executed.

Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi's Muslim Xidaotang repulsed and defeated Bai Lang's bandit forces, who looted the city of Táozhōu but Muslim general Ma Anliang slaughtered Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi and his family after the war. The bandits were notable for anti-Muslim sentiment, massacring thousands of Muslims at Taozhou. Muslim Khufiyya Sufi general Ma Anliang was only concerned with defending Lanzhou and his own home base in Hezhou (Linxia) in central Gansu where his followers lived and not the rival Xidaotang sect Muslims under Muslim leader Ma Qixi in southern Gansu's minor towns like Taozhou so he let Bai Lang ravage Taozhou and other towns in southern Gansu while passively defending Lanzhou and Hezhou. The North China Herald and Reginald Farrer accused Ma Anliang of betraying his fellow Muslims by letting them get slaighterd at Taozhou. Ma Anliang then arrested Ma Qixi after falsely accusing him of striking a deal with Bai Lang and had Ma Qixi and his family slaughtered.