Anhui originally refers to ancient place names, and now Anhui refers to Anhui Province, which is the abbreviation of Anhui Province.
During the Qianlong period, the Huidian of Qing Dynasty confirmed the result of the division of the three provinces of Kangxi at the end of Shunzhi from the legal level. Gan Long's Qing Tong Zhi separates Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and all the contents are "above some provinces". The name of the province was synthesized by the initials of Anqing and Yizhou at that time. Because there are Wanshan in the territory and ancient Anhui in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is called Anhui for short.
Anhui Province is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Hefei as its capital, located in the Yangtze River Delta in the east of China, bordering Jiangsu in the east, Henan and Hubei in the west, Zhejiang in the southeast, Jiangxi in the south and Shandong in the north. Total area 14.0 1 ten thousand square kilometers. By the end of 20021,the resident population of Anzuo Province was 6 1 1.3 million.
Anhui province is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. Renzi Cave in Fanchang County discovered the site of human activities about 2.5 million years ago, and Longtan Cave in Hexian County excavated the site of "Hexian Ape Man" in Paleolithic Age from 300,000 to 400,000 years ago.
Climatically, it belongs to the transitional area between warm temperate zone and subtropical zone. The north of Huaihe River has a warm temperate semi-humid monsoon climate, and the south of Huaihe River has a sub-humid monsoon climate. Its main characteristics are obvious monsoon, four distinct seasons, warm and changeable spring, concentrated rain in summer, crisp autumn and cold winter.