The history of Chaohu Lake in Anhui Province.

Chaohu Lake area is one of the earliest cradles of ancient humans. The 300,000-year-old "Hexian Ape", the 200,000-year-old "Silverscreen Homo sapiens" and the 5,000-year-old "Lingjiatan Cultural Site" in China mark the evolutionary history of human ancestors from ape to homo sapiens to modern people. ? Bantang Town, Chaohu City was a transit station for copper materials from south to north in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period.

Chaohu Lake has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, and generations of famous soldiers have galloped the battlefield of Chaohu Lake, leaving many ancient battlefield relics. The ancient Zhao Pass in hanshan county is located at the tail of Wu Chu. The inscription clearly describes the thrilling scene of Wu Zixu, a famous Chu star in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was this kind of "escape" that changed the hegemonic pattern in the Spring and Autumn Period, which led to "Wu Yuan used soldiers to destroy Chu", "Wu Yuan flogged the king of Chu", "Shen Qin" and. ?

The melodious bell of the overlord ancestral temple in Hexian County tells the tragic story of "Xiang Yu's Wujiang River committed suicide", and the four-year dispute between Chu and Han ended here. Guqi in Juchao District is the hometown of Fan Zeng, a counselor of Xiang Yu. Here, beautiful mountains and beautiful waters tell people the glory and regret of history two thousand years ago: it is precisely because "my father left the nest that year." But it was precisely because Xiang Yu later did not listen to his strategy and did not kill Liu Bang at the "Hongmen Banquet" directed by him that the tragic ending of Wujiang River's suicide appeared. ?

Chaohu Lake is the cradle of Huai Army culture. Li Hongzhang concentrated on training the Huai Army in China in the temple waters of Chaohu Lake. It is from here that a group of famous patriotic generals went to the battlefield and went to Taiwan Province Province, where they made great achievements in the three major wars of the Anti-French War, the Sino-Japanese War and the Anti-Eight-Nation Alliance War. ?

Chaohu Lake is a memorial hall of modern revolution. Under the leadership of China * * * Production Party, the heroic sons and daughters of Chaohu Lake have inherited and carried forward the glorious tradition of their ancestors. In the revolutionary civil war, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the war of liberation, they actively joined the army and fought for the motherland. ?

Chaohu Lake is the hometown of historical celebrities. There are so many talented people here that the stars shine. Feng Yuxiang, Zhang Zhizhong, Li Kenong, Wen Zongren, Xu Haifeng, a contemporary calligrapher, a child, a poet and an Olympic champion, were all born in this fertile land. Among them, the former residences of General Feng, Zhang and Li are listed as national and provincial key cultural relics protection units or patriotic education bases. ?

Chaohu Lake has always been a place where politicians and writers set foot. They either visited or worked in Chaohu Lake, leaving many historical sites handed down from generation to generation in Mo Bao, which greatly enriched and promoted the historical sites and culture of Chaohu Lake.