Zhoukou City has a long history and splendid culture, with a civilization history of more than 6,000 years. Taihao Fuxi built his capital here, and Yandi Shennong sowed grains and created the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation. Zhoukou belonged to the ancient state of Chen. Chen Feng". At the end of the Warring States period, the capital of Chu, known as Ying Chen. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang established the Zhang Chu regime here. During the two Han Dynasty, Chen was the territory of the Emperor, prosperous and rich. Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, Huaiyang has set up counties and governments. Zhoukou's history is full of heroes. Laozi (Li Er), the originator of Taoism, wrote the Tao Te Ching, which has become a famous book for thousands of years. In 1949, Huaiyang Prefecture was set up, and in 1965 Zhoukou Prefecture was set up; on June 8, 2000, the State Council approved the abolition of Zhoukou Prefecture and the establishment of the prefecture-level Zhoukou City.
Zhoukou has a convenient transportation network of highways, railroads and waterways. There are 13 national highways and provincial highways, including National Highway 311 running east to west and National Highway 106 running north to south. There are 184 county and township highways, with a mileage of 4,000 kilometers. Luo (He) to Fu (Yang) Railway and Beijing-Guangzhou, Beijing-Kowloon line, passenger and freight trains to communicate across the country. Luo (He) Zhou (Kou) Jieshou (first) highway east to Ninghu Hangzhou, west and Beijing-Zhuhai high-speed connection, direct access to Zhengzhou International Airport. A (Rongqi) Shenzhen (Shenzhen) high-speed, Zhou (mouth) Shang (Qiu) high-speed, Xu (Chang) Hao (state) high-speed is under construction. Shaying River has been a navigable river since ancient times, entering Huaihe River and converging with Yangtze River. Shaying River navigation can be directly to Nanjing and Shanghai.
Zhoukou infrastructure is complete. The city's telephone exchange and access to the network equipment capacity of 1.02 million doors, 800,000 fixed-line telephone users, can be directly dialed to more than 210 countries and regions of the world. China Mobile communication users developed to 700,000, China Unicom users developed to nearly 120,000, the annual growth rate of more than 100%. The construction of informationization has been effective, opening the Zhoukou Statistical Information Network and establishing the online Zhoukou propaganda platform. Zhoukou is rich in energy. Has been proved to have a large range of coal and gas resources, has now entered the pre-development planning and demonstration stage. The national "West-East Gas Transmission" project passes through Zhoukou and opens in Huaiyang, and the annual gas supply will reach 700 million cubic meters. Zhoukou has an abundant supply of electric power, with a purchased power generation capacity of 2.537 billion kilowatt-hours in 2004, and a reliable power supply rate of 99.8%, which is fully capable of guaranteeing the power for industrial production and daily life. The city's water supply is reliable, the city's third water plant has been completed, can fully meet the production and living water needs.
Agriculture in Zhoukou was once glorious. Here is the national important grain, cotton, oil, meat, tobacco production base. 2004 the city's annual output of grain reached 5.412 million tons, 176,000 tons of cotton production, total oil production of 299,000 tons, meat production of 732,300 tons, all ranked the forefront of Henan Province. Zhoukou is also an important breeding and meat export base for cattle, goats and hogs. Produced acacia goat skin for export inspection-free products, exported to the United States, Britain, Italy, Japan and Eastern European countries, the history of Zhoukou and Hebei Zhangjiakou and known as China's two major north and south of the skin. Zhoukou is also known as the nation's advanced city of plains greening, forest coverage of 18.26%, known as the "plains sea of forests.
Zhoukou industry has now formed a power, machinery, textiles, food processing, construction materials, leather and fur processing as the pillar of the industrial system of complete categories. 2004, the city's industrial added value of 17.6 billion yuan. Emergence of a number of well-known industrial brands at home and abroad. Henan lotus group production of "lotus" brand monosodium glutamate has won 24 domestic and international gold medals, its production capacity among the world's top four in the same industry, the world's first single-plant production; Songhe Liquor Industry Co., Ltd. production of high and low degrees of Songhe Grain Liquor won the National Gold Medal, into the ranks of the national wine; Henan Shoes Leather Group production of cattle leather and products are exported to more than 10 countries and regions. In addition, a number of famous and excellent products such as Golden Monkey milk candy, Sai Chao leather shoes, and Bangjie food products are famous at home and abroad. A number of new industrial enterprises such as Hualin Group, Yihai Cereals and Oil Group, and Lunda Power Generation Company will play a strong supporting role in the rapid expansion of Zhoukou's industrial scale.
Zhoukou is rich in tourism resources. The city has Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum, Ping grain platform site, Confucius string song platform, Laozi's hometown of the Qing Palace, Nuwa City ruins, Guandi Temple, Yuan Shikai Palace, Longhu Scenic Area and other tourist attractions in 33 places. Among them, Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum, Pinggiantai Ruins and Guandi Temple are national key cultural relics protection units. Huaiyang also has Hu Gongtie Tomb, the founder of the Chen family name, Huaiyang is the birthplace of the Chen family in the world, every year there are a large number of overseas Chinese with the Chen family name come to Huaiyang to search for their roots; Taikang is the origin of Xie's family, and Xie's Cultural Research Society has been established. The city has formed a Zhoukou---Huayang---Luyi "three points and one line" as the focus of the tourism hotline.
Area: 11959 square kilometers
Population: a total population of 10.65 million people
Topography: Zhoukou is the Yellow-Huaihuai Plain, the terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, altitude of 36 - 64 m
Climate: Zhoukou is a warm-temperate zone, semi-moist continental monsoon climate, the average annual temperature 15 °, the average annual precipitation of 750 mm. The average annual precipitation is 750 millimeters.
Geographic location: Zhoukou is located in the southeastern part of Henan Province, east of Fuyang, Anhui Province, west of Henan Luohe City, Xuchang City, south of Zhumadian City, north of Kaifeng, Shangqiu City border.
Administrative area: Fugou County, Xihua County, Shangshui County, Taikang County, Luyi County, Dancheng County, Huaiyang County, Shenqiu County, and Xiangcheng City, Chuanhui District 10 counties and municipalities.
Customs
Zhoukou Dragon Boat Race
Zhoukou is famous as the home of dragon boats in Central China, and the Dragon Boat Race at Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom here. Zhoukou dragon boat and Jiangnan dragon boat is different, Jiangnan dragon boat body long head pointed, and Zhoukou dragon boat body short head flat, light and dexterous, easy to turn around. Jiangnan dragon boat less decorated, Zhoukou dragon boat with silk cloth, flower paper heavily decorated, luxurious and beautiful. During the Zhoukou Dragon Boat Race, each dragon boat has a fixed "hand", "rower", "drummer", and ten "paddlers". "The team works closely together and cooperates well. All of them work together and cooperate well, and the paddles dance and the boats fly like flies. Zhoukou Dragon Boat Race has tug-of-war and duck catching events in addition to ferry racing. In tug-of-war, a rope connects two dragon boats, and both sides row in opposite directions. Tug-of-war on water is more complicated than tug-of-war on land, and in addition to the competition of strength, there is also the competition of skill and wisdom. Rowing paddleboard, like feet on the ground, to stand still, you need to paddle hard, do not dare to slacken. If you want to win, you need the whole boat to work together to win.
Scenic Spot Guide
Taihao Mausoleum
Taihao Fuxi is a holy emperor in the ancient myths and legends of China, and he is "the first of a hundred kings", one of the three emperors, and the first of the five emperors. He was one of the three emperors and the first of the five emperors. In the period of evolution of human society from matrilineal to patrilineal, and from barbarism to civilization, he made great achievements with his own intelligence and wisdom. Therefore, the descendants called him "the first ancestor" and "the first ancestor of the Sifu". "Taihao" is the praise of people for Fuxi, meaning that Fuxi's virtues are infinite, as bright as the sun and moon. In order to commemorate the merits of our ancestors, the tomb of Fuxi was built here in the Spring and Autumn Period. When Confucius traveled around the world to Chen, Chen Linggong accompanied Confucius to see the tomb; Three Kingdoms Wei Cao Zhi had < Feng Si Wang in Chen, visit Fuxi Ancestral Temple after making "Fuxi Zan". Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the mausoleum of Taihao Fuxi has been continuously expanded, including the mausoleum and the sacrificial temple, covering an area of 875 mu. The existing mausoleum building is a Ming Dynasty building, the structure is similar to the Ming Dynasty Palace. It is divided into two cities, the inner city is called the Forbidden City and the outer city is called the Imperial City. Inside the city of cypresses, monuments and inscriptions, morning bells and drums, sound for miles. Unity of Heaven Hall, also known as the hall, the front hall, is the largest building in the entire mausoleum, the hall is meters high, an area of 390 square meters; the hall has a tall shrine, inside the plastic Fuxi seated statue, equipped with the left and right of Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, Shao Hao, Zhuan Xiang statue. Taihao Fuxi's mausoleum is more than 20 meters high, more than 150 meters in circumference; on the round, under the square seat, symbolizing the "heaven and earth", before the mausoleum, there is a Song Dynasty green stone monument, 3 feet wide, 15 feet high, on the Yong "Taihao Fuxi's tomb" a big word, according to legend, this monument for the Su Little sister with a scarf as a pen written.
Taiqing Palace
Taiqing Palace is located in Luyi County, 5 kilometers east of the city, is China's ancient outstanding thinker, founder of the Taoist school of Laozi's birthplace, the old name of the Li Township, Qu Ren Li. Lao Zi, surnamed Li Er, word Boyang, posthumous name Dan. He was born in the late Spring and Autumn period in the bitter county of Chu, Li Township, Qu Ren Li, that is, today Luyi County, Taiqing Palace Township. Taiqing, Taoism, also known as the sky, is rumored to be inhabited by immortals, and Taoism often uses the name for its palaces and temples. Laozi hometown of monumental buildings, the first Laozi Temple, built in the Eastern Han Dynasty Huan Di Tingxi eight years (165 years), later changed to Laozi Shrine. Li Yuan, founder of the Tang Dynasty, recognized Laozi as the first ancestor, Laozi Temple for the temple, started to build the palace, Tang Kaiyuan thirty years (725 years), Xuan Song Li Longji formally changed the "Purple Palace" for the Palace of the Qing Dynasty to the present. Taiqing Palace before and after the two palaces a mile apart, in the middle of an east-west flow of the Qingjing River, take Laozi "quietness and inaction" meaning, there will be a fairy bridge on the river, before and after the two palaces into one. The two palaces cover an area of 872 acres, a variety of buildings more than 600 rooms, halls and pavilions, majestic and spectacular, extremely prosperous for a time. The "former palace" to Taiji Hall as the center, east of the Laozi cattle ranch site, west of the hidden Yangshan site, there are nine steps in the well, still exists. Hall for the Laozi statue, the side of the hall there is about 1.5 meters high, about 25 centimeters in diameter, an iron pillar, known as "drive the mountain whip", in fact, for the Laozi "under the pillar of the history of" the symbol of the position. Since the "Jingkang Rebellion", Taiqing Palace has been repeatedly destroyed, and then several market place repair.
Shopping
--Specialties
Luyi celery, asparagus, Tangzhuang lotus root, pomegranate, sweet persimmons, Bulang plum, Kate apricot, Taikang nectarine, Shenqiu goat, JiZhuang vermicelli and so on.
--Crafts
Busi painting, handmade cloth shoes, cloth stickers.
--Shopping Place
Wangguoyuan Shopping Center is a paradise of leisure, entertainment and shopping for consumers. Zhoukou Zhongdu Shopping Center will truly achieve the organic unity of shopping, leisure, sightseeing, entertainment and catering with the combination of plaza and shopping mall.
Gourmet
--Flavorful food
Smothered bad fish, Dengcheng pig's trotters, Wangsan dumplings, Zhoujia sesame flowers, five-spice rabbit meat, Zhongzhou five-spice tripe, thousand-layer tofu, hole set of roasted chicken, Guan Degong roasted chicken, roasted elbows, chicken buns, and so on.