Brief introduction of Gushi county

Gushi County is located at the southeast end of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui, bordering Dabie Mountain in the south and Huaihe River in the north. Belonging to the blending zone between East China and the Central Plains, China's geographical demarcation line (Qinling-Huaihe demarcation line) runs through the territory, so it is called "Jiangnan in the north and Jiangnan in the north". Gushi county is located at east longitude11521′ ~1556 ′ and north latitude 3146 ′ ~ 3235 ′. The longest from north to south is 94. 16 km, and the widest from east to west is 56. 19 km, with a total area of 29 16 km2. It borders Huoqiu County of Anhui Province in the east, Funan County of Anhui Province across the Huaihe River in the north, Huaibin, Huangchuan and Shangcheng County in the northwest, Huangchuan and Southwest respectively, Jinzhai County of Anhui Province in the south and Yeji District of Lu 'an City of Anhui Province in the southeast. Gushi is the most populous county in Henan Province, and it is also one of the first five key counties (cities), ten counties (cities) directly under the provincial government and five planned regional central cities in Henan Province. 1 Gushi is one of the "Top Ten Strong Cultural Counties in Henan Province" with its prosperous writing style and profound historical and cultural accumulation since ancient times. Gushi Calligraphy Group has attracted much attention from calligraphy circles at home and abroad, and was named as "the hometown of calligraphy in China" by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and China Calligraphy Association. Because there have been four large-scale migrations to the south in history, their descendants gradually spread to Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan Province, Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia and Europe and America. Gushi is also known as "the hometown of Tang people, the ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan" and "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in the Central Plains". To undertake the "Root-seeking Cultural Festival of the Central Plains (Gushi)" sponsored by the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese every year.