Hunan

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Hunan Province is located in the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and most of the area is in the south of Dongting Lake, so it is called Hunan. The Xiangjiang River runs through the north and south of the province, which is also called Xiang for short. According to legend, the Xiangjiang River Basin used to be full of hibiscus plants, and the Tang Dynasty poet Tan Yuzhi had the sentence "Autumn winds of hibiscus country", so Hunan is also known as "hibiscus country". Hunan is bordered by Jiangxi in the east, Sichuan and Guizhou in the west, Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, and Hubei in the north.

The Dongting Lake Plain is located in the northern part of Hubei Province. It extends from Miluo and Yueyang in the east to Linli, Changde and Taoyuan in the west, and from Yiyang, Qiaokou and Xiangyin in the south to the south of Jingjiang River in Hubei in the north. The area is 12,690 square kilometers (in Hunan Province). Elevation 30-50 meters. It is an alluvial plain formed by the long-term siltation of Dongting Lake and the exposure of the bottom of the lake. Dongting Lake Plain and the Jianghan Plain in south-central Hubei Province, known as the Two Lakes Plain, is one of the three major plains in the country, an important part of the Yangtze River Plain.

Hunan Province has a dense network of rivers, 5,341 rivers with a flow length of more than 5 kilometers, with a total length of 90,000 kilometers, of which 17 are large rivers with a watershed area of more than 5,000 square kilometers. In addition to a few of the province belongs to the Pearl River system and the Ganjiang River system, the main Xiang, Zi, Yuan, Li four water and its tributaries, along the terrain from south to north into the Dongting Lake, through the Chenglingji into the Yangtze River, forming a relatively complete Dongting Lake system. Xiangjiang River is the largest river in Hunan and one of the seven major tributaries of the Yangtze River. Dongting Lake is the largest lake in the province. The lake across the Hunan and Hubei provinces. 1644-1825 Dongting Lake total area of 6270 square kilometers. 1937 for 4700 square kilometers. 1983 measurement results, Dongting Lake lake water surface is only 2691 square kilometers, less than half of 1825. Due to the amount of sediment into the lake is increasing day by day, 1949 ~ 1977 in 28 years, the average annual shrinkage of the Dongting Lake surface 85,500 mu.

Hunan is a province with a large number of ethnic minorities, including 26 ethnic minorities such as Hui, Tujia, Miao, Zhuang, Manchu, Dong, Yao, Mongolia, *** Er, Yi, Tibet, and Korea.

Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, is located in the north-eastern part of Hunan Province, on the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River, on the line of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, bordering Tonggu, Wanzai, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi Province to the east, Xiangtan and Zhuzhou in the south, Loudi and Yiyang in the west, and Yueyang in the north. Changsha is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of the province, and is one of the first batch of historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council. About 7,000 years ago, Changsha was home to primitive ancestors. The name of Changsha began in the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Changsha was the southern town of Chu - Qingyang; after the unification of Qin, Changsha County was set up; at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Changsha was established as Changsha State; during the Han, Jin, and Southern Dynasties, Changsha was Linjia County; during the Sui Dynasty, Changsha County; during the Tang Dynasty, Tanzhou; during the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, it was the capital of the State of Chu; during the Yuan Dynasty, it was changed to the Tanzhou Road, and then changed to the Tianlin Road; in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was Changsha Prefecture, and in 1933, it was set up as the Changsha Municipal Government. Since the Qing Dynasty, Changsha has been the capital of Hunan Province, and on August 4, 1949, Changsha was peacefully liberated. After the founding of New China, the economy of Changsha has been developing rapidly, and now it has formed a comprehensive industrial system with machinery, textile, light industry, chemical industry, building materials, foodstuffs and other industries as its main focus, and the main products include cotton yarn, cigarettes, industrial pumps, fans, raw coal, steel, cement and so on, and the traditional industrial products include Changsha Hunan embroidery, Liuyang summer cloth, firecrackers, chrysanthemum stone carvings, Tongguan pottery and so on. Agricultural and sideline products are mainly rice, hogs and fresh fish, while tea, mandarin oranges, tea oil and rapeseed are also famous.

Hunan is rich in mineral resources, is the country's important mineral base, known as the "hometown of non-ferrous metals", recently known as the "township of non-metals.

Hunan's attractions are many, there are Yueyang Tower, Dongting Lake, Yuelu Academy, Mawangdui Tomb, Tianxin Pavilion, Orange Island, Shaoshan *** residence, the old site of the New People's Association, Qingshuitang Revolutionary Memorial Hall, the old site of self-study universities, Liuyang Wenjia City Division site, *** Comrade's former residence, the former home of Comrade Yang Kaihui, Lei Feng Memorial Museum and so on, and another Mount Hengshan, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and so on.

Overview of Hunan

Area: more than 210,000 square kilometers

Population: more than 63 million people, the main ethnic minorities are Miao, Yao, Tujia and so on.

Location: Located on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, it is known as "Xiaoxiang", "Huxiang" and "Sanxiang" in ancient times, and is adjacent to Hubei, Guizhou, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong and other provinces (municipalities directly under the central government and autonomous regions). directly under the Central Government, autonomous regions) adjacent.

Capital: Changsha

Scenery: dreaming of God's soul, waking up as intoxicated, the towering Hengshan Mountain is precipitous, the soup soup Dongting vast, the wise man recited a poem, the immortal family wine, a generation of great people pointing to the rivers and mountains like a picture, the Xiaoxiang mountains and waters, the beauty of the Chu boundary of the people and the spirit of the world......