Bozhou is also called "the land of high houses" because it is composed of high prefix and house prefix. Bozhou is a national historical and cultural city. As early as seven or eight thousand years ago, human beings lived here, which is one of the birthplaces of ancient culture in China.

Shang Tang destroyed the summer and established the Shang Dynasty in Bo 190, and Ji Fang was founded in Bo. In the second year of Emperor (22 1), it was named "the capital", and it was called "the five capitals" together with Xuchang, Chang 'an, Luoyang and Ye. In the first year of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (579), Nanzhan Prefecture was changed to Bozhou, the name of Bozhou, which was first seen here.

Bozhou is the bridgehead connecting the world-class urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta in the Central Plains, the core development area of the Central Plains urban agglomeration, the tourist center city in northern Anhui and the provincial-level intersection center city, the excellent tourist city in China and the hometown of longevity in China, and the largest distribution center and price formation center of Chinese herbal medicines in the world. Bozhou has 23 1 cultural relics protection units at all levels, including 8 national key cultural relics protection units. 188 intangible cultural heritage.

topography

The whole territory of Bozhou City is in a southeast-northwest syncline. The whole Bozhou is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with a length of about 150 km from north to south and a width of about 90 km from east to west, with a natural slope of 1/9000 to the southeast. Zhanlou, Qiaocheng District in the northwest, has the highest terrain, with an altitude of 42.5 meters. The south of Zhangou in Lixin County is the lowest in the southeast, with an altitude of 22 meters and a relative drop of 20.5 meters. Due to the meandering cutting change of rivers and the influence of the early Yellow River south invasion, hills, slopes and dish-shaped depressions are alternately distributed in the plain, which has the geomorphological characteristics of "big flat and small uneven".

Bozhou City is fan-shaped connected with the breach of the Yellow River, and it is a flat plain area. Only in the east, there are more than 0 limestone residual hills 10, such as Longshan, Shigong Mountain, Qishan, Langshan and Shuang Suoshan. Except for the eroded residual hills scattered in Mengcheng and Yang Guo, it is a typical Huang-Huai accumulation landform, and it is a alluvial area of the Yellow River in modern times. Microgeomorphology is divided into flood plain, flood micro-highland, flood slope plain and crevasse fan.