Beiliu, formerly known as "the main road of Guangdong and Guangxi" and "the state of ancient copper", was once "rich in armour" in history and was called "Little Foshan" and "Jinbeiliu". Located in the southeast of Guangxi, it borders Gaozhou City, Huazhou City and Xinyi City of Guangdong Province in the south. Located in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, it has a typical subtropical monsoon climate.

It is a national civilized city, a national sanitary city, a national garden city, a national water-saving city, a famous ceramic city in China, a hometown of architecture, a hometown of litchi, a hometown of passion fruit, a hometown of poetry in China, a hometown of filial piety culture in China, a king of bronze drums in the world, a hometown of xiangxian culture in China and the second largest hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangxi. It is also the hometown of the baise uprising He Qi Army, Commander-in-Chief of Gongba Army Li Mingrui and Commander of Gongba Army Yu Zuoyu.

History and culture

Beiliu, known as "the capital of daily-use ceramics in China", has been producing ceramics for two thousand years. On 2011August 3 1, the expert group of China Ceramic Industry Association agreed to award Beiliu the title of "China Ceramic City". Beiliu ceramics originated in Xia and Shang Dynasties. According to the existing archaeological data, primitive pottery appeared in Lingnan area in the middle and late Neolithic period.

The stone culture in Liu Ma Village, Xinxu, the earliest ancient human site in Beiliu, has no pottery except stone shovels and axes. From Xia Dynasty to Shang Dynasty, with the continuous progress of agricultural production, private ownership sprouted, and private pottery workshops appeared in Beiliu River Basin, which was located in a remote place in the south, but no artifacts were unearthed in Beiliu.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Beiliu