Anxi County, known as Qingxi in ancient times, is located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province, northwest of Xiamen-Zhangquan Golden Triangle, and belongs to Quanzhou City. With a total area of 3057.28 square kilometers, it governs 15 towns and 9 townships. According to the data of the seventh national census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Anxi County was 1003599. The built-up area of the county is 28 square kilometers. 1985, approved by the state as one of the first coastal counties open to the outside world, is the main ancestral home of Taiwan Province compatriots.
Anxi has a history of producing tea for thousands of years. It is the hometown of oolong tea (famous tea) in China and the birthplace of Tieguanyin in Anxi. It ranks first among the key tea-producing counties in China, is famous for its tea industry and is known as the "Tea Capital of China".
folk culture
Anxi is extremely rich in folk culture. In addition to Anxi Gaojia Opera, there are puppet shows, Nanyin, tea song duet, advocating music, folk dances, waterwheel pavilions, lion and dragon dances, lanterns, decorative pavilions, storytelling, solve riddles on the lanterns and so on. These colorful folk cultures have been circulating among the people for thousands of years.
In Taiwan Province Province, there are more than 400 temples dedicated to Emperor Baosheng and more than 200 temples dedicated to the founder of Shimizu. Like Anxi, many ancestral temples, houses and place names have become bridges and ties to communicate nostalgia and friendship, and become spiritual habitats of millions of Taiwan Province compatriots and symbols of local culture.
"Shili Poetry Gallery"
Anxi county is surrounded by green mountains and surrounded by water, and has the reputation of "Dragon and Phoenix Famous Area". Hutouxi and Longtanxi, tributaries of Jinjiang flowing through the county, meet in the west of the county and flow from west to east in an "S" shape. People vividly named them "Dalong Lake". After the formation of Dalonghu Lake, more than 7,000 ancient poems were engraved on granite guardrails on both sides of the river when Anxi planned to build flood control dikes on both sides of the river, forming a unique "Shili Poetry Gallery" landscape in China.