Gushi Ekuang
Gushi County is located at the southeastern end of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces. It is bordered by the Dabie Mountains to the south and the Huaihe River to the north. It belongs to the blending zone between East China and the Central Plains, China. The geographical dividing line between north and south (Qinling Mountains-Huaihe River dividing line) passes through the territory.
Gushi covers an area of ??2,916 square kilometers and has a registered population of 1.74 million (2014). It is the most populous county in Henan Province. It is also one of the first five key counties (cities) in Henan Province to expand its power. It is one of the counties (cities) under the direct administration of the province and one of the five planned and constructed regional central cities.
Gushi has a prosperous literary style and profound historical and cultural accumulation since ancient times. It is one of the "Top Ten Cultural Counties in Henan Province". The Gushi calligraphy group has attracted much attention from the calligraphy circles at home and abroad, and has been named the "Hometown of Chinese Calligraphy" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Calligraphy Association.
Because there were four large-scale population migrations southward 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 the Tang people. It is known as the "ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan" and "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in the Central Plains". It hosts the "Zhongyuan (Gushi) Roots and Family Culture Festival" sponsored by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese every year.