In the Xia Dynasty and Huaihe River Basin, there is a beautiful legend about Dayu's water control.
In 22 1 year BC, the state of Qin merged with six countries, and the whole country was divided into 36 counties, with 5 counties in Anhui. During the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, Anhui set up 8 counties and 2 countries. During the Three Kingdoms period, Anhui was divided into Wei and Wu. During the Jin Dynasty, southern Anhui belonged to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the north and south of Huaihe River belonged to the Eastern Jin Dynasty first, then to Zhao and Qian Qin. The Sui Dynasty established 17 states in Anhui; Anhui belonged to Henan, Huainan and Jiangnan in Tang Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Anhui set up 7 counties and 4 states. In the sixth year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, Anhui Province was formally established, with jurisdiction over 8 prefectures, 5 states and 55 counties. During the Republic of China, the Administrative Supervision Department was established.
From 65438 to 0949, Anhui was divided into two administrative offices: southern Anhui and northern Anhui, with northern Anhui located in Hefei and southern Anhui located in Wuhu.
1952 The two administrative offices merged to restore Anhui Province.
There are 17 prefecture-level cities, 5 county-level cities, 56 counties and 45 county-level districts in the province.
In this hot land of Anhui, many world-famous major events have taken place throughout the ages.
The uprising between Chen Sheng and Guangwu Daze Township, the decisive battle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, the battle of xiaoyaojin in Zhang Liao, and the victory of the Three Rivers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom general Chen Yucheng all go down in history and are widely known.
Since modern times, Anhui has also been an old revolutionary base area. During the Agrarian Revolution, Dabie Mountain was the center of Hubei, Henan and Anhui revolutionary base areas. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the New Fourth Army was active in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the "Southern Anhui Incident" in Jingxian County shocked China and foreign countries. During the War of Liberation, Liu Deng's army advanced into Dabie Mountain, and Anhui was the main battlefield of Huaihai Campaign and Crossing the River Campaign.
In contemporary times, Anhui people actively participate in the turbulent tide of reform and opening up with the spirit of daring to try. /kloc-in the winter of 0/978, farmers in Xiaogang village of Fengyang took the lead in implementing the household contract responsibility system initiated by "unified contracting and unified distribution", which opened the prelude to China's reform and opening up and became the first village of rural reform in China.
The long history has left many historical sites, and Anhui is one of the major cultural relics provinces in China.
More than 7000 pieces of underground cultural relics/kloc-0 have been discovered.
Xidi and Hongcun in yi county were listed as world cultural heritage in 2000 because of their well-preserved ancient dwellings.
Bozhou, Shouxian and Yixian were approved as national historical and cultural cities.
Bozhou is the hometown of Cao Cao and Hua Tuo in the Three Kingdoms, and is known as the "Wine City and Medicine Capital".
Shouxian is the capital of Chu State at the end of the Warring States Period, an important birthplace of Chu culture in China history, and now has the only complete ancient city wall in China. Shexian has a profound cultural heritage, with a large number of stone workshops, ancestral halls, Ming and Qing dwellings and other "three wonders of ancient buildings".
At present, there are national key cultural relics protection units in the province, including Longtan Cave Ape Site, Xuejiagang Ancient Cultural Site in Qianshan County, Dagongshan-Fenghuangshan Copper Site in Nanling County and Tongling County, Ming Dynasty Emperor Ancient City and Mausoleum Stone Carving in Fengyang County, Anfengtang in Shouxian County, Qiankou Village in Huizhou District of Huangshan City, Shifang and Shipaifang Group in Shexian County, Huaxilou in Bozhou City and Hujia in Longchuan in Jixi County.
There are also 200 provincial and 1000 key cultural relics protection units at the city and county levels.