Wuhan is a city under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province and the capital of Hubei Province. Located at the eastern edge of Jianghan Plain, where the Yangtze River meets the Hanshui River. It is located at1190km north of the capital Beijing. Between east longitude11341'~1505' and north latitude 29 58' ~ 3122'. It borders Huanggang, Ezhou and daye city in the east, Xianning, Jiayu and honghu city in the south, Xiantao and Hanchuan in the west and Xiaogan, Hong 'an and Macheng in the north. The maximum longitudinal distance from north to south155km, and the maximum lateral distance from east to west134km. The total area of the jurisdiction is 8467 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 3963.6 square kilometers and the urban built-up area is 202 square kilometers. It now governs Jiang 'an District, Jianghan District, Qiaokou District, Hanyang District, Wuchang District, Qingshan District, Hongshan District, caidian district, Jiangxia District, Dongxihu District, Hannan District, Huangpi County, Xinzhou County and other two counties 1 1 district. The total population is 7 159000, of which the urban population is 382 100. The residents are mainly Han nationality. The terrain belongs to the alluvial plain of residual hills and lakes, with hills, lakes and flat land alternating, and a small mountain in the north is the residual vein of Dabie Mountain. Altitude 19.2 ~ 873.7 meters. Rivers and lakes account for 25% of the total area. The main rivers are Yangtze River, Hanshui River, Songshui River, Fuhe River, Daoshui River, Jushui River, Jinshui River and Dongjing River. The larger lakes are Liangzi Lake, Zhangdu Lake, Tangxun Lake and Donghu Lake. Two east-west low mountain systems and the north-south Yangtze River form a longitudinal axis in the urban area. The Yangtze River and Hanshui River divide the urban area into three parts: Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, forming a unique urban pattern of "three towns stand in the balance". It belongs to a typical subtropical humid monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. The annual average precipitation is 1284 mm, and the precipitation is relatively concentrated in June-August. The annual average temperature is 65438 06.4℃. In summer, the high temperature lasts for a long time, with the extreme maximum temperature of 4 1.3℃ and the minimum temperature of-18. 1℃.
Wuhan traffic
Wuhan is one of the top ten railway hubs in China. The main external trunk lines are Beijing-Guangzhou line, Handan line, Wuda line and Beijing-Kowloon connecting line. The comprehensive capacity of waterway shipping ranks first among inland rivers in China, and it is an important land-water combined transport hub. The highways are mainly national highways 107, 3 16, 3 18 and 106, forming a highway network extending in all directions, with a highway mileage of 2826.5 kilometers. Wuhan Tianhe International Airport is an aviation hub in central China. The total turnover of all kinds of transportation and freight in the city is 79 billion tons kilometers, and the total turnover of passenger transport is 65.438+0.93 billion person-kilometers.
Wuhan food
Traditional fast food cooked food unique to Wuhan, Regan Noodles. According to legend, it is a new noodle variety discovered in a noodle restaurant in the 1930s. The production method is as follows: firstly, the fresh machine-made dried noodles without dehumidification are cooked in a pot, fished out, mixed with oil, spread and cooled, then boiled in boiling water, fished out, added with sesame sauce, sesame oil, diced spicy radish, shrimp skin, onion, Jiang Mo, soy sauce, vinegar and other auxiliary materials, and evenly mixed to serve. Its noodles are golden in color, rich in flavor, flexible and chewy, ready-to-eat hot food, convenient and cheap, and are widely loved by Wuhan citizens. Regan Noodles, Hankou and Cai Lin, the most pure and delicious.
Xiaotaoyuan simmering soup Wuhan folk banquet simmering soup is very important, and there is a saying that "there is no soup to entertain guests". 1946, Tao Kunfu and Yuan Dezhao jointly established a restaurant with unique flavor, named "Xiaotaoyuan", which soon became famous in three towns of Wuhan. Later it was renamed Xiaotaoyuan. Its simmer soup is mainly chicken soup, in addition to ribs soup and beef soup. Later, turtle soup, bagua soup, pigeon soup and other dishes were added, which developed into a famous store with outstanding flavor. Xiaotaoyuan chicken soup is still made of pottery, which is called "crock chicken soup". The traditional breed of fat hen, which weighs about 750 grams, produced in Huangpi and Xiaogan areas, is first simmered in a large pot with a big fire until it is 80% mature, and then cooked in a small clay pot with a slow fire. Its soup is clear, oily, delicious and nutritious.
Old Tongcheng bean skin bean skin was originally a traditional seasonal snack of Hubei people. When making, mung beans and rice are mixed, soaked, ground into pulp, spread into skin, wrapped with glutinous rice, diced meat, onion and ginger, and then fried in oil. 193 1 Laotongcheng Restaurant takes bean skin as its snack variety. On the basis of folk crafts, this restaurant adds eggs to the spread, mixes fresh meat, eggs and shrimps into glutinous rice stuffing, and then carefully fries them, which is called "Sanxian bean skin", forming a special flavor. Later, pig heart, pig tongue, pig belly, diced chicken, mushrooms, magnolia slices and so on. Add it to the stuffing and divide it into different varieties according to the quality of the stuffing. Old Tongcheng bean skin is thin and bright, crisp outside and soft inside, tender, smooth and refreshing, oily but not greasy.
Hongshan cauliflower is a unique vegetable variety in Wuhan. In the old society, it was once called "Jindian Jade Cuisine" as a local product of Hubei Province to pay tribute to the emperor. It is named after it is produced in Hongshan area, Wuchang. Because its stems and leaves are purplish red, it is also called purple cabbage moss and red cabbage moss. Although it was introduced to other places, the quality of products near Hongshan is still the best. Hongshan vegetable moss is sweet and delicious, crisp and refreshing, rich in nutrition, and never tires of eating it. New varieties such as October Red, Carmine Red and Trumpet Head have been cultivated.
The scientific name of Wuchang fish is Megalobrama amblycephala, which is named because it is abundant in Liangzi Lake in Wuchang. Fish body is flat and diamond-shaped, rich in fat and delicious in meat, which is a treasure in freshwater fish. Steaming tastes best in cooking, and its soup is delicious and nutritious. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, there are many poems praising Wuchang fish, which are well-known at home and abroad. ?
Wuhan tourist attractions
The Yellow Crane Tower is located in Sheshan, Wuchang, with an average elevation of 85 meters. It reaches the bridgehead at Simenkou in the west, the cavalry training ground and the Red House in the south, and the Beijing-Guangzhou railway trunk line in the north. The Yellow Crane Tower is the main landscape of the park. The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the second year of Wu in the Three Kingdoms period (223), and it has become a place for poets to enjoy scenery and feast in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Meng Haoran, Cui Hao and Li Bai all have famous poems about the Yellow Crane Tower. Later, it was also called "Three Famous Buildings in Jiangnan" with Yueyang Tower and Wang Tengting. The Yellow Crane Tower has been destroyed many times in history. 198 1 year, redesigned and built on the basis of the style of Tongzhi period in Qing Dynasty. The new Yellow Crane Tower has 5 floors, with a height of 51.4m; Square, looks like a; Each side is 35 meters long, and 72 columns rise from the ground, all of which are reinforced concrete imitation wood structures. The main building was completed and opened on 1985. Later, there were more than 40 pieces of garden sketches/kloc-0, including South Tower, Poetry Gallery, He Jiong Map in 1999, Xishuang Pavilion, Zizhuyuan, Baiyun Pavilion, Yue Fei Xiang, Meiyuan and Dujuan Garden. The park has become a window for Wuhan's foreign exchange. By the end of 1996, it had received more than 35 million Chinese and foreign tourists.
Guqintai is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province. Also known as Boyatai. Located at the south bank of Yuehu Lake at the foot of Guishan Mountain in Hanyang, Wuhan. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was built to commemorate the story that Yu Boya's guqin met his confidant Zhong Ziqi in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was destroyed and rebuilt again and again. The platform is square and made of white marble. A square stone tablet stands in Taichung, with a height of 1.75 meters, engraved with "Qintai" and "Boya Father's Picture". The platform is surrounded by a stone fence. Together with the surrounding ancient buildings, the total area is 1 hectare, which is one of the scenic spots in Wuhan.
East Lake Scenic Area is located in the east of Wuchang, including Moshan and other mountain bodies along the lake, with a planned area of 88.2 square kilometers, including 33 square kilometers of lake surface. The lake is clear, the shore is winding, the vegetation is good and the scenery is excellent. The planning and construction of scenic spots began at 195 1. It is divided into six areas: Tingtao District, Moshan District, Wild Goose District, Baima District, Luohong District and Flute Playing District. Each district has built scenic spots according to the natural landscape design. Among them, Tingtao District was built and opened the earliest, covering an area of 126. 1 hectare, with an inner lake surface of 60 hectares. The original historical sites around the lake, such as the suburban rooftop where Liu Bei sacrificed to heaven in the Three Kingdoms, the flute mountain in the Zhao Haoqi Range Rover in the Ming Dynasty, and the Jiunvdun in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, etc. /kloc-in 0/987, a Chu culture tourist area was built in the north of Moshan, with such scenic spots as "Chucheng", "Chutiantai", "Zhu Rong Stargazing", "Lisao Monument" and "Only Chu Youcai". 1996, the "European Style Garden" was built in the northeast corner of Tingtao District. At present, the scenic spot has become a national key scenic spot that combines landscape and culture with tourism, entertainment, vacation, recuperation, breeding and scientific research.
Mulan Mountain Ancient Architecture Complex is located in Mulan Mountain, Huangpi County, 60 kilometers north of Hankou. Mulan Mountain was formerly known as Jianming Mountain and Qingshiling Mountain. It is said that the heroine Zhu Mulan once lived at the foot of the mountain. In the thirty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1609), a temple was built on the mountain to commemorate it, and the mountain was renamed Mulan Mountain. Ancient buildings are distributed in General Cemetery, Dongquan 'an, Crystal Palace and Guzhai, among which Guzhai is the largest. The ancient village is surrounded by two main peaks, with a length of 5 kilometers. The house built on the mountain is made of dry bluestone and is about 4 meters high. Now it is basically well preserved. All the buildings in the village were built in Shi Gan, without mortar jointing, and they did not collapse after hundreds of years of wind and rain, which is unique. Mulan Mountain has been built into a scenic spot.
Qingchuan Pavilion and Yuji Palace are key cultural relics protection units in Hubei Province. It is located in Yugongji on the Yangtze River at the eastern foot of Guidong in Hanyang, Wuhan. Qingchuan Pavilion was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, and its name was taken from the poem "Every grass and tree in Hanyang is clear in water" written by Cui Hao, a poet in Tang Dynasty. It has the reputation of "four famous buildings in Chu". Because it faces the Yellow Crane Tower across the river, it is called "Three Chu Scenery". After repeated destruction, the pavilion was rebuilt in 1985 according to the style of Guangxu period in Qing dynasty, covering an area of 386 square meters and being 17.5 meters high. Its bottom is 5 rooms wide and 4 rooms deep; The top floor is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. Masonry abutment, red wall and vermilion column, black tile roof with double eaves on the top of the mountain, reinforced concrete imitation wood structure, wooden door and window railings, painted with cinnabar. The four corners of the roof protrude outward, go deep outside the eaves and rise high. On the front archway, there is a huge gold plaque of Qingchuan Pavilion. On the north side is the "garden in the garden", where the vegetation is lush, the bamboo and wood are lush, and the rocks are rugged, quiet and elegant.
Yuji Palace stands side by side in the southwest of Qingchuan Pavilion, formerly known as Wang Yu Temple, which was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and was destroyed several times. The existing building was rebuilt in the third year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1864). Covers an area of 350 square meters. Its building is a hard-mountain brick-wood structure with a tile roof and a slightly concave roof. The winding corridors on both sides of the central axis communicate with the palace, forming a rectangular patio. There is a courtyard on the west side, and there is a pavilion in northern Henan with a hexagonal conical roof outside the courtyard. There are fragments of northern Henan carved by Mao Hui in the thirty-fifth year of Qing Qianlong (1770) and stone carvings of northern Henan built by Mao Hui. The Yuji Palace and the rebuilt tiemenguan and Qingchuan Pavilion form an ancient architectural complex, which is one of the scenic spots in Wuhan.
Guqintai is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province. Also known as Boyatai. Located at the south bank of Yuehu Lake at the foot of Guishan Mountain in Hanyang, Wuhan. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was built to commemorate the story that Yu Boya's guqin met his confidant Zhong Ziqi in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was destroyed and rebuilt again and again. The platform is square and made of white marble. A square stone tablet stands in Taichung, with a height of 1.75 meters, engraved with "Qintai" and "Boya Father's Picture". The platform is surrounded by a stone fence. Together with the surrounding ancient buildings, the total area is 1 hectare, which is one of the scenic spots in Wuhan.
The tomb of Chu King in Ming Dynasty is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province. Longquan Mountain in Jiangxia District, 40 kilometers southeast of Wuchang City, is the tomb of the eighth generation of nine Chu princes in the Ming Dynasty. Each bedroom covers an area of 100 mu. In addition to tombs, there used to be pavilions, cities, main halls, attached halls, altars and other buildings, but many of them no longer exist. 1982, large-scale renovation in King of Zhao Monument. Longquan Mountain and the tomb of the King of Chu in the Ming Dynasty have now become scenic spots. 199 1 year, Hubei Institute of Archaeology and Wuhan Institute of Archaeology conducted a rescue excavation of Zhao Haoqi's tomb, and more than 0 pieces of gold seals (bronze), jade seals, belts and other cultural relics were unearthed 100.