Location: Xinyang City, Henan Province, China.
1. Gushi is located at the southeast end of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, with Dabie Mountain in the south and Huaihe River in the north. It belongs to the blending zone of East China and Central Plains, and the geographical boundary line between China and the south (Qinling-Huaihe River boundary line) passes through the territory, so it is known as "the south of the Yangtze River in the north, and the south of the Yangtze River in the north".
2. Gushi is the most populous county in Henan province, and it is also one of the first five key counties (cities) in Henan province, one of the ten counties (cities) directly under the provincial government, and one of the five planned regional central cities.
3. 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. The calligraphy group in Gushi has attracted much attention from the calligraphy circles at home and abroad, and has been named "the hometown of calligraphy in China" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Calligraphy Association.
4. Because there were four large-scale migrations to the south in history, their descendants gradually spread to Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia and Europe and the United States. 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". Undertaking the "Central Plains (Gushi) Roots Culture Festival" sponsored by China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese every year.
geographical location
1. Gushi County is located in the southeast corner of Henan Province, a unique place in Gushi-the terrace scenery at the northern foot of Dabie Mountain (6 photos), which is the junction of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces and the blending zone of East China and Central Plains.
2. Dabie Mountain in the south and Huaihe River in the north. The geographical location is 115 21 ′ ~ 115 56 ′ east longitude and 31 46 ′ ~ 32 35 ′ north latitude.
3. The longest from north to south is 94.16 kilometers, and the widest from east to west is 56.19 kilometers, with a total area of 2,946 square kilometers.
4. It is adjacent to Huoqiu County, Anhui Province in the east, across the Huaihe River from Funan County, Anhui Province in the north, with Huaibin, Huangchuan and Shangcheng counties in Xinyang City in the northwest, Huangchuan and Southwest respectively, with Jinzhai County in Anhui Province bounded by the Yangtze River in the south and Yeji Experimental Zone in Lu 'an City, Anhui Province in the southeast corner. In addition, it is close to Macheng City, Hubei Province in the southwest, and the shortest straight line distance between the county and Macheng City is about 4 kilometers.