In the third year of the Great Cause of Sui Dynasty (607), Huangzhou was changed to Yong 'an County, and the administrative office was moved to Huanggang (now a new state), which governed Huanggang, Huangpi, Mulan and Macheng counties.
In the third year of Tang Wude (620), Yongan County was changed to Huangzhou, and the general government was established.
The Song Dynasty was still ruled by Huangzhou and qi zhou.
In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), Huangzhou was abandoned.
In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), the abandoned road was directly under the Hubei provincial government.
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Huanggang City is located in the east of Hubei Province, at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain and on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is connected to Henan in the north, Anhui in the east and Ezhou, Huangshi and Jiujiang across the river in the south. Geographical orientation is11424'-11607' east longitude and 29 45'-3 1 40' north latitude. Huangzhou, the resident of Huanggang party, government and military organs, is 78 kilometers west of Wuhan, the provincial capital. The land area of the city is 17446 square kilometers, accounting for 9.4% of the total area of Hubei Province. The longest distance from east to west is 168km, and the widest span from north to south is 208km.
Huanggang has a long history and culture with a history of more than 2,000 years. It has cultivated a large number of scientific and cultural masters, such as Daoxin, Hongren and Huineng, the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism in China, Bi Sheng, the inventor of movable type printing in Song Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a medical sage in Ming Dynasty, Li Siguang, a great master of modern geological science, Wen Yiduo, a patriotic poet and scholar, Huang Kan, a master of Chinese studies, Xiong Shili, a philosopher, and Hu Feng, a literary critic.
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