Hefei tours

Hefei is a famous ancient city with 2000-year history. It is famous as the hometown of Bao Zheng (the most upright, honest and clean-handed high official in North Song Dynasty. It is most widely respected and commemorated by the folk community. In folklore, He was tall and dark. On his forehead, there was a remarkable and congenital sign of Moon. He was China’s Rhadamanthus. He judged cases of human world in daytime and cases of hells in nighttime. Hence nowadays there are many memorial halls could be found all round China) and the notable historical site of Three-kingdom period. Since the late period of East Han Dynasty, Hefei was always acted as the important place of administrative center and military stationing. The origin of its name came from the Historical Record written by Sima Qian, China’s most famous historian in ancient China. In later period, it was also called Luzhou. After 1949, Hefei was changed to be city from a county. And soon it became the provincial capital of Anhui Province (the original capital was Anqing. The origin of Anhui came from the initials of Anqing and Huizhou). There are four urban districts and 3 counties.