Gushi Ekuai Gushi County is located at the southeastern end of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces. It is bordered by the Dabie Mountains to the south and the Huaihe River to the north. It belongs to the blending zone between East China and the Central Plains, and the geographical dividing line between the north and south of China (the Qinling-Huaihe River dividing line) runs through it.
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Gushi covers an area of ??2,916 square kilometers and has a registered population of 1.74 million (2014). It is the most populous county in Henan Province. It is also one of the first batch of five key counties (cities) for power expansion in Henan Province and ten counties (cities) under direct provincial administration.
1. One of the five planned regional central cities.
Gushi has a prosperous literary style and profound historical and cultural accumulation since ancient times. It is one of the "Top Ten Cultural Counties in Henan Province".
The Gushi calligraphy group has attracted much attention from the calligraphy circles at home and abroad, and has been named the "Hometown of Chinese Calligraphy" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Calligraphy Association.
Because there were four large-scale population migrations to the south in history, their descendants gradually spread to Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia and Europe and the United States. Gushi has "the hometown of the Tang people, the ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan" and "the ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan".
It is known as the first hometown of overseas Chinese in the Central Plains.
It hosts the "Zhongyuan (Gushi) Roots and Family Culture Festival" sponsored by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese every year.