Wuhan is a national historical and cultural city and an important birthplace of Chu culture. The site of Panlongcheng in China has a history of 3,500 years. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wuhan has been the military and commercial center of southern China, and it became the earliest prosperous place of Chu and one of the four famous places in the world in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The opening of Hankou Port and the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty started the modernization process of Wuhan, making it an important economic center in modern China and known as "Oriental Chicago". Wuhan, the starting place of the Revolution of 1911, became the national political, military and cultural center several times in modern history.
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Wuhan is the birthplace of "high mountains and flowing water to find bosom friends". Wuchang Art College, the predecessor of Wuhan Conservatory of Music and Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, is the first private art education school in modern China and one of the first three art colleges in China, so Wuhan has also become one of the cradles of modern higher art education in China.
The main art performance venues in Wuhan are Qintai Grand Theatre, Wuhan Qintai Concert Hall, Hubei Theatre, Wuhan Theatre and Hongshan Auditorium.
Wuhan cuisine can be described as a thousand miles a day, the most classic is breakfast and midnight snack, and there is a beautiful talk of "tasting Hubu Lane early and eating Qing Ji Street late". Wuhan cuisine has inherited the style of hubei cuisine, and has its own characteristics. It is a famous "gourmet capital".