Anhua County is located on the Zishui River in central and northern Hunan, north of Xuefeng Mountain, bordering Taojiang and Ningxiang in the east, Lianyuan and Xinhua in the south, Xupu and Yuanling in the west and Changde and Taoyuan in the north. The northern part of Xuefeng Mountain, formerly known as Anhua Meishan, is the birthplace of Meishan culture, which was established in Song Shenzong in the fifth year of Xining (1072). Anhua, with a total area of 4,950 square kilometers, is the third largest county in Hunan Province, with a mountainous area accounting for 82%. It is also a typical mountainous county and reservoir county, with a forested area of 5.36 million mu and a forest coverage rate of 76.5438+0%. In 20 13, Anhua administered 5 townships, 18 towns, with a total population of1030,000.
Anhua is a famous county in Hunan for nonferrous metals, hydropower resources, forestry resources, tea production and medicinal materials industry. It has successively won the titles of "Hometown of Magnolia Officinalis in China", "Hometown of Badminton", "Hometown of Bamboo in China", "Most Beautiful Town in China" and "Best Healthy Leisure Tourism Resort in China".
Anhua's unique geographical environment, especially the rich pueraria resources, has a tradition of digging and processing pueraria for generations. In the 1980s, kudzuvine root powder was often used as meal replacement. When the mouth and tongue ache, the ancestors brewed with their own Ge Fen, which has the function of homology of medicine and food.