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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Gaoping
|official_name = <!-- Official name in English if different from 'name' -->
|native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|高平市}}}}
|other_name = Kaoping
|settlement_type = [[County-level city]]
|postal_code_type = [[Postal code of China|Postal code]]
|postal_code =
|area_code =
|image_skyline =
|image_map = ChinaJinchengGaoping.png
|map_caption =
|pushpin_map = Shanxi
|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Shanxi
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = People's Republic of China
|subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of the People's Republic of China|Province]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Shanxi]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[Prefecture-level city]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Jincheng]]
| area_total_km2          = 946.0
| area_urban_km2          = 63.00
| area_footnotes          = <ref name="CUCSY_2017">{{cite book |editor1=Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development |editor-link=Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development |title=China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017 |date=2019 |publisher=China Statistics Press |location=Beijing |page=46 |url=http://www.mohurd.gov.cn/xytj/tjzljsxytjgb/jstjnj/w02019012421874448287322500.xls |access-date=11 January 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618043019/http://www.mohurd.gov.cn/xytj/tjzljsxytjgb/jstjnj/w02019012421874448287322500.xls |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| population_total        = 494000
| population_as_of        = 2017
| population_urban        = 130500
| population_urban_footnotes = <ref name="CUCSY_2017"/>
|population_density_km2 = auto
|coordinates = {{coord|35.798|N|112.924|E|format=dms|type:adm3rd_region:CN-14_source:Gaode|display=it}}
|elevation_m =
|timezone = [[China Standard Time|China Standard]]
|utc_offset = +8
|website =
}}
'''Gaoping''' ({{zh|s=高平 |p=Gāopíng}}) is a [[county-level city]] in the southeast of [[Shanxi|Shanxi Province]], China, under the administration of the [[prefecture-level city]] of [[Jincheng]]. It has a history stretching back to the [[Warring States period]] (403&ndash;221 BCE). Part of the city was formerly known as Changping where [[Battle of Changping|a noted battle]] took place in 260 BCE between forces from the rival States of [[Qin (state)|Qin]] and [[Zhao (state)|Zhao]].
Gaoping is also famed as the birthplace of [[Yan Emperor|Lord Yan]], a legendary figure who was an early leader (or series of leaders) among the ancient [[Han Chinese]].
Gaoping (along with several other locations in China) was traditionally identified as Yan's hometown.  Not until the late 20th and early 21st century was Gaoping widely accepted as Yan's birthplace by the global scholarly community.
The hilly area around Gaoping is known as the Sheep's Head Mountains ({{zh|c=羊头山}}), and it is this area that preserves the most concrete evidences of Yan's habitation there.  A local temple to a female river spirit has been identified as portraying Yan's daughter Nüwa ({{zh|c=女娃}}) - not to be confused with the goddess [[Nüwa]] ({{zh|c=女娲}}) - since the [[Ming dynasty]].<ref>Zhu Zaiyu 朱載堉 (AD 1536 - 1611), ''Yue Lü Quan Shu - Yang Tou Shan Xin Ji'' 《樂律全書·羊頭山新記》</ref>  Ancient sources, such as the [[Guoyu (book)|Guo Yu]], record that Yan and his posterity flourished in the area around a river called the "Giang [Jiang] Water".<ref>''Guo Yu - Jin Yu Si'' 《國語·晉語四》 says: "Lord Yan flourished by the Giang Water" ({{zh|c="炎帝以姜水成"}}).</ref>  The river is believed by scholars to be the Giang River of old is now called the Jiang River ({{zh|c=绛河}}) or the Jiang Water ({{zh|c=降水}}), and is located in [[Tunliu County]], whence it flows east into the [[Zhang River]].<ref>''Yan Di Wen Hua'', 4.</ref>
==Climate==
{{Weather box|width=auto
|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Gaoping, elevation {{convert|837|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
|Jan high C = 	3.8
|Feb high C = 	7.3
|Mar high C = 	13.3
|Apr high C = 	20.3
|May high C = 	25.3
|Jun high C = 	29.0
|Jul high C = 	29.5
|Aug high C = 	28.1
|Sep high C = 	24.1
|Oct high C = 	18.6
|Nov high C = 	11.6
|Dec high C = 	5.4
|Jan mean C = 	-3.7
|Feb mean C = 	-0.2
|Mar mean C = 	5.6
|Apr mean C = 	12.5
|May mean C = 	18.0
|Jun mean C = 	22.0
|Jul mean C = 	23.6
|Aug mean C = 	22.1
|Sep mean C = 	17.3
|Oct mean C = 	11.2
|Nov mean C = 	4.2
|Dec mean C = 	-2.0
|Jan low C = 	-9.1
|Feb low C = 	-5.6
|Mar low C = 	-0.4
|Apr low C = 	5.8
|May low C = 	11.2
|Jun low C = 	15.8
|Jul low C = 	19.0
|Aug low C = 	17.8
|Sep low C = 	12.4
|Oct low C = 	5.7
|Nov low C = 	-1.2
|Dec low C = 	-7.1
|Jan record high C = 16.1 |Jan record low C = -22.3
|Feb record high C = 23.0 |Feb record low C = -21.8
|Mar record high C = 28.7 |Mar record low C = -14.5
|Apr record high C = 36.6 |Apr record low C = -5.0
|May record high C = 37.3 |May record low C = -1.3
|Jun record high C = 38.3 |Jun record low C = 6.7
|Jul record high C = 37.7 |Jul record low C = 11.2
|Aug record high C = 36.1 |Aug record low C = 9.2
|Sep record high C = 36.0 |Sep record low C = 0.5
|Oct record high C = 31.2 |Oct record low C = -7.5
|Nov record high C = 25.4 |Nov record low C = -18.4
|Dec record high C = 18.7 |Dec record low C = -22.5
|year high C =  |year low C =
|year high F =  |year low F =
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 	7.1
|Feb precipitation mm = 	12.2
|Mar precipitation mm = 	13.4
|Apr precipitation mm = 	34.8
|May precipitation mm = 	48.5
|Jun precipitation mm = 	72.3
|Jul precipitation mm = 	143.7
|Aug precipitation mm = 	107.9
|Sep precipitation mm = 	70.9
|Oct precipitation mm = 	34.1
|Nov precipitation mm = 	18.2
|Dec precipitation mm = 	5.9
|Jan humidity = 	59
|Feb humidity = 	60
|Mar humidity = 	57
|Apr humidity = 	57
|May humidity = 	59
|Jun humidity = 	64
|Jul humidity = 	78
|Aug humidity = 	81
|Sep humidity = 	77
|Oct humidity = 	71
|Nov humidity = 	66
|Dec humidity = 	60
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 	3.9
|Feb precipitation days = 	4.3
|Mar precipitation days = 	4.8
|Apr precipitation days = 	5.8
|May precipitation days = 	7.8
|Jun precipitation days = 	9.9
|Jul precipitation days = 	13.0
|Aug precipitation days = 	12.0
|Sep precipitation days = 	9.5
|Oct precipitation days = 	7.0
|Nov precipitation days = 	5.1
|Dec precipitation days = 	3.4
|year precipitation days =
|Jan sun = 	164.1
|Feb sun = 	166.8
|Mar sun = 	197.9
|Apr sun = 	223.6
|May sun = 	244.4
|Jun sun = 	216.6
|Jul sun = 	197.6
|Aug sun = 	191.4
|Sep sun = 	170.2
|Oct sun = 	178.9
|Nov sun = 	169.6
|Dec sun = 	170.5
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 	53
| Feb percentsun = 	54
| Mar percentsun = 	53
| Apr percentsun = 	57
| May percentsun = 	56
| Jun percentsun = 	50
| Jul percentsun = 	45
| Aug percentsun = 	46
| Sep percentsun = 	46
| Oct percentsun = 	52
| Nov percentsun = 	56
| Dec percentsun = 	57
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 	5.0
|Feb snow days = 	5.0
|Mar snow days = 	3.0
|Apr snow days = 	0.6
|May snow days = 	0
|Jun snow days = 	0
|Jul snow days = 	0
|Aug snow days = 	0
|Sep snow days = 	0
|Oct snow days = 	0.1
|Nov snow days = 	2.1
|Dec snow days = 	4.3
|year snow days =
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==References==
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*''Yan Di Wen Hua'' 炎帝文化, edited by Wang Shuxin 王树新 and Meng Shikai 孟世凯.  Zhonghua Bookstore (Beijing): 2005.
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