Gaotang County, which belongs to Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, is located in the northwest of Shandong Province. It is adjacent to Yucheng City and Qihe County in Dezhou in the east, Linqing City and Xiajin County in the west, Chiping County in the south and Pingyuan County in the north, with an area of 960 square kilometers and a population of 500,000.
Gaotang County is 70 kilometers east of Jinan International Airport. Gaotang Station is built by Han Ji Railway, more than 50 kilometers away from Liaocheng Station and Linqing Station of Beijing-Kowloon Railway, and 60 kilometers away from Dezhou Station of beijing-shanghai railway. It has the convenience of "getting on the train in 20 minutes, getting on the plane at 1 hour, and entering the capital to the port in 4 hours". Yin Qing Expressway and Luxi Outer Ring Expressway pass through the territory.
Gaotang County is flat and fertile, with Tuhai River in the east and Ma Jiahe in the west running through the county. Traditional agriculture is developed and rich in products, especially cotton, which is famous in the whole province. "Qilu kapok is the first" and is known as the "Golden Tang Dynasty".
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Gaotang County, located in the northwest of Shandong Province, governs 1 provincial economic development zone, 9 towns, 3 streets, 603 administrative villages, 42 urban communities, 500,000 people and 960 square kilometers.
Now it is the hometown of calligraphy and painting art in China, the national civilized county, the national garden county, the national advanced county for comprehensive management of social security, the national advanced county for scientific and technological progress, the national advanced county for managing counties according to law, the national pilot county for social management innovation, the hometown of flat precision machinery in China, the hometown of construction machinery manufacturing in China and the first county in koi fish, China.
Gaotang has a long history and rich humanities. The written history of Gaotang is over 2800 years. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was Qi Yi, in the early years of Western Han Dynasty, it was a county, and in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a state. Since the Republic of China, there has been a record that "rich silkworms are famous counties in Shandong" and "goods have kapok in Qilu", which is known as "Golden Tang Dynasty".
Lu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hua Xin in the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty, Lv Cai, a famous philosopher and musician in the Tang Dynasty, Zuo Maode, a calligrapher in China in the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Changzuo, the governor of the three provinces in the Qing Dynasty, are all famous figures in history.
The rich cultural heritage of Gaotang has cultivated a number of famous painters and calligraphers, such as Li Kuchan, a master of Chinese painting, Sun Dashi, a famous writer, Xie Jiadao, a military painter, and Li Yan, a scholar painter, all of whom are outstanding representatives of contemporary culture and art in Gaotang. At present, there are more than 60 members of artists' associations and calligraphy associations at or above the provincial level, and a large number of painting and calligraphy lovers have formed a strong atmosphere of "everyone loves to splash ink, and every household learns Danqing".
Gaotang is the first hometown of calligraphy and painting in China named by the Ministry of Culture. Since 2006, the 11th China Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition has been held continuously, and the Li Art Museum has been named as a cross-strait cultural exchange base by the Ministry of Culture and the Taiwan Affairs Office.
The existing xingguo temple Tower in the Tang Dynasty in Liangcun Town has been designated as a national key cultural relic protection unit, the local operas "Sixian", Luozi Dance and Sidiao in the Gaotang Dynasty have been listed as provincial intangible cultural heritage, and Liu Si Town has been named as the hometown of China Couplet Culture.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-gaotang county
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Gaotang County People's Government-Brief Introduction of Gaotang