Geography of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province

Hanzhong is located in the southwestern part of Shaanxi Province, with the Qinling Mountains to the north and the Bashan Mountains to the south, and the beautiful and fertile Hanzhong Basin in the middle. The city governs ten counties and one district, with a total area of ​​27,000 square kilometers and a population of 3.72 million. Hanzhong is a national historical and cultural city and a national ecological demonstration construction pilot area. Hanzhong has a profound cultural heritage and unique and beautiful natural scenery. There are 113 cultural relics protection units at all levels in the city, including 2 national key cultural relics protection units and 25 provincial key cultural relics protection units; there is 1 world human and natural biosphere, There are 7 national-level ecological scenic spots (spots) and 16 provincial-level ones. Hanzhong is the birthplace of the Han family and has a long history. Since King Huiwen of Qin first established Hanzhong County in 312 BC, it has a history of more than 2,300 years. Hanzhong opened Han industry. In 206 BC, King Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty took Hanzhong as his birthplace, built an altar to worship Han Xin as his general, built plank roads openly, crossed Chencang secretly, competed in the Central Plains, pacified the Three Qin Dynasties, unified the world, and established the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years. Since then, the Han Dynasty Appellations such as , Han people, Han nationality, Chinese language, and Chinese culture have been passed down to this day. During the Three Kingdoms period, Hanzhong was the main battlefield where Wei and Shu fought against each other. The veteran general Huang Zhong slashed Xia Houyuan at the foot of Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong, and the brave general Zhao Yun defeated Cao Jun on the bank of the Han River. Liu Bei proclaimed himself the king of Hanzhong; Zhuge Liang, the famous prime minister of the generation, was in Hanzhong. He spent 8 years stationed in the army and spent the most painstaking years of his life. He left Qishan six times and went to the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei. He worked hard and was finally buried at the foot of Dingjun Mountain. His resting place, Wuhou Temple, is known as "the best Wuhou Temple in the world". This is the hometown of Zhang Qian, the pioneer of the Silk Road, and the fiefdom and burial place of Cai Lun, the inventor of the four great inventions of papermaking. Emperors and generals such as Han Xin, Zhuge Liang, and Cao Cao once made great achievements here. Great poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Lu You, and Su Shi visited, moved around, or lived in this land, leaving behind magnificent ink poems. Hanzhong is the best ecological place at the same latitude on earth. This basin is surrounded by the majestic Qinling Mountains and the vast Bashan Mountains, and is nourished by the two major tributaries of the Yangtze River, the Hanjiang River and the Jialing River. Although it is located in the west of China, it has the same beauty as the south of the Yangtze River. It is a place that benefits from the north and the south and has the beauty of the north and the south. Feng shui treasure land. Traveling around Hanzhong, you will be greeted by greenery. Foping Nature Reserve is a vast forest with dense peaks and valleys. It is the first "World Man and Natural Biosphere" awarded by UNESCO in the northwest, and is also my country's first wild giant panda breeding research base; Changqing Nature Reserve has Known as a "biological resource bank", it has a wide variety of rare animals and plants, especially the four national treasures - crested ibis, giant panda, golden monkey, and takin, which have attracted widespread attention from the domestic and foreign scientific circles; Liping National Forest Park is full of strange peaks and rocks, and springs The streams, pools and waterfalls are so beautiful that it is called the "Jiuzhaigou Valley" in the northwest; Zibai Mountain is a majestic mountain with ninety-two peaks, eighty-two terraces and seventy-two caves. The pit is rare in the world; Wuzi Mountain has steep mountains, deep valleys and dense forests, and is known as the "Shanghua Mountain" in southern Shaanxi. The more than 2,500 acres of the world's rare white-bark pine in the mountain are spectacular; the high gorge and flat lake in the Baogukou Shimen Scenic Area are graceful Thousands of imitated stone gate plank roads are built near mountains and rivers, flying in the air, reproducing the majestic style and shape characteristics of the Qin and Han Dynasty plank roads; Hongsi Lake is misty, with mountains and rivers blending, quiet and mysterious, and is "a natural long scroll of Chinese painting"; Nanhu is a collection of water gardens with beautiful sky and beautiful ground, luxuriant bamboo trees and winding paths; it is the largest citrus production base in the northwest, with 100,000 acres of citrus gardens in the city. In the golden autumn, oranges are red and oranges are yellow, and you can enjoy picking tangerines in the garden. ; The second largest cherry base in the country, Xixiang Cherry Valley, when the flowers bloom, the mountains and forests are dyed, colorful and fragrant; there are also millions of acres of rapeseed and 500,000 acres of tea gardens. Every spring, hundreds of miles of golden flowers along both sides of the river , the bees are flying and the butterflies are dancing, which is refreshing. In recent years, tourism in Hanzhong City has developed rapidly, and the six elements of tourism are in place. At present, there are more than 50 high-end and high-end hotels in the city, 16 travel agencies, more than 50 mature scenic spots (spots), and nearly 50,000 tourism employees in the city. The city's information transportation is developed, with mobile phones reaching scenic spots, and civil aviation, railways and highways connecting all parts of the country. We have also successively launched more than 50 routes such as Hanzhong calligraphy tour, Three Kingdoms relics tour, Tianhan ancient tour, rare wildlife viewing and scientific research tour, summer leisure tour, and Jialing River rafting. Every year, Hanzhong holds the Wuhou Tomb Qingming Cultural Tourism Festival, Zhangliang Temple Tourism Festival, Southern Shaanxi Folk Song Festival, Zhangqian Tourism Culture and Art Festival, and various tourism and cultural festivals such as Tea Festival, Cherry Festival, Citrus Festival, and Lotus Festival. .

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