Hefei Overview

The history of Hefei is long, it was called Luzhou in the past, is called Luyang again, is the provincial capital of Anhui Province, locates in the Chinese central part, in the central part of Anhui Province, placed between Jiang and Huai and in the north shore of Cao Lake, has the important niche advantage of accepting east and west, connecting with the China and mastering of south and north. Hefei is in the transition district of between the warm temperate zone and subtropics, the weather is geniality, it is clear all the year round. The whole city's total area is 7266 square kilometers, the downtown's total area is 639.7 square kilometers, the total population is 4,480,000 people of whole city, the population is 1,465,000 people of the downtown. Hefei is governing 3 counties of Feidong, Feixi and Changfeng, 4 areas of Yaohai, Luyang, Shushan and Baohe. The natural landscape of Hefei is very beautiful, depends on Shu Mountain in the west, faces to the Cao Lake in the south, the South Fei River lingers around the city area, the roads inside the city are spacious, the green trees become the shade, since there are many modern buildings, the well-known historic monuments again, it is a thou old but young city again. Erya points out" return the different together is fatty" up. Erh-shui all are fatty, matching in one source, cent but is two, so called Hefei. Hefei is well known for its long history. More than 2,000 years ago, it started to become the businesses city here. Because having the strategic position of" right larynx of, Chiang-Nan lips ", so it became the ground that military necessarily contend for in the past. In the Three Kingdoms, the Xiaoyaojin War which was Zhang Liao who was the General of Wei beat Sun Quan's 100 thousand soldiers took place here. The famous spots and historic monuments of Hefei are a lot of. In the past, there were Zhenhuaijiaoyun, Fanshazhongsheng, Zangzhoucaose, Jiaonusongyin, Shushanxueqi, Huaipuchunrong, Caohuyese and Sidingchaoxia, which are known together as eight views of Luyang. The Caohuyese, Sidingchaoxia etc. have already not belonged to Hefei City now; The Zhenhuaijiaoyun etc. has already all gone because of the long days, things change with the passing of years, they become the history vestiges. The famous spots and historic monuments of now take Jiaonutai, Mingjiao Temple, Xiaoyaojin, Baogong Ancestral Temple, etc. as the most famous.