Tianmen

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Tianmen is a sub-prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, China.

It is on the west of Wuhan and east of Jingzhou. The old name is Jingling (竟陵), which is where Liu Yan was from. It is the hometown of Lu Yu, who is regarded as the pioneer of planting Chinese tea widely.

In January 2008, a construction company general manager and blogger named Wei Wenhua was beaten to death by a group of at least 30 Chengguan for filming a dispute between villagers and government officials in Wanba, a village in Tianmen.[1]

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