How many districts and counties are there in Yongzhou?

Yongzhou has two districts 1 eight counties in the city, namely Lengshuitan District, Lingling District, Qiyang City, Dongan County, Shuangpai County, Daoxian County, Jiangyong County, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, ningyuan county, Xintian County and Lanshan County.

Yongzhou City is located in the south of Hunan Province. It connects Linwu, Jiahe, Guiyang and Changning in Hengyang in Chenzhou in the east, Gongcheng, Guanyang and Quanzhou in Guangxi in the west, Lianzhou and Liannan in Guangdong in the south, Hexian and Fuchuan in Guangxi in the south, Xinning, Shaoyang County in Shaoyang and Qidong in Hengyang in the north. Yongzhou was originally a Lingling area, and 1995 was approved by the State Council to withdraw from the area to build a city.

accretion of culture

Yongzhou was called Lingling in ancient times, named after China's ancestor Shun Di was buried in Jiuyi Mountain in China. It is one of the 34 ancient place names that appeared before Xia Dynasty in China. Lingling County is located in Qin Dynasty, Lingling County is located in Han Dynasty (Emperor Wu) and Yongzhou is located in Sui Dynasty. Since then, Lingling has been divided into Yongzhou and Yongzhou. With a history of more than 2,200 years, it is one of the four national historical and cultural cities in Hunan Province.

At present, there are 34 state-level cultural relics protection units and 76 provincial-level cultural relics protection units in the city, ranking first in the province, with 7 national intangible cultural heritages, 9 national historical and cultural towns and villages, 43 provincial-level historical and cultural villages and 85 traditional villages in China, making it a big city of cultural heritage resources.

The earliest completely modern human fossils, the world's earliest artificially cultivated rice seed samples, and pot-shaped primitive pottery pieces that can be assembled and molded are found here, which is known as "the source of the world's valleys and the world's pottery books".

It has nurtured splendid Shun culture, Liu Wenhua, Neo-Confucianism culture, Nvshu culture and Yao culture, and has become an important source of Huxiang culture and even Chinese culture. In particular, the neo-Confucianism thought constructed by Zhou Dunyi, the originator of neo-Confucianism, has a far-reaching impact on the development of later philosophy. Yuelu Academy praised it as "my southern expedition was originally a slap in the face of Lianxi, and my eastward crossing of the Yangtze River was nothing more than the aftermath of Xiangshui".