Mengcheng County, which belongs to Bozhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the middle of Huaibei Plain, northwest of Anhui Province, east of Bozhou City, east of Huaiyuan County of Bengbu City, west of Lixin County and Guoyang County of Bozhou City, south of Fengtai County of Huainan City, north of Suixi County of Huaibei City, between 32 55' 29 "north latitude and 33 29' 64" east longitude. The total area of Mengcheng County is 209 1 km2.
Mengcheng County is a famous historical and cultural city in Anhui Province, the hometown of Zhuangzi, the hometown of China couplets and the hometown of hard pen calligraphy in Anhui Province. It is also an advanced county for grain production, a model county for cultural work and a model county for popular science.
Local folk culture
Mengcheng County is "the hometown of China couplets". Couplets are a kind of dual literature, which originated in Fu Tao. It is a antithetical sentence written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is one of the unique artistic forms of China language, which is concise and profound, neat and even, with the same words and structure.
20 13 Mengcheng county held the county-wide couplets competition of "Five Enters" and "Jiuxi Chen Heng Cup". There are two ways to collect couplets, one is sentence collection, and the other is self-writing. From the county-level and township-level units with good applications, the county selected 6 units to form 6 teams, and conducted live competitions before and after the May Day holiday. The contents of the competition are couplets knowledge, couplets stories, famous couplets in ancient and modern times and on-site responses.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mengcheng County