Rucheng County is located in the southeast of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, at the junction of Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces. It is adjacent to Chongyi County in Jiangxi Province in the east, Renhua County and Lechang City in Guangdong Province in the south, Yizhang County in the west, Zixing City and Guidong County in the north.
It is 72 kilometers long from east to west and 63 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 2400.38+0 square kilometers. There are many hills and mountains in the county seat, which is generally called "eight mountains, half water and half fields, and half roads lead to the manor". The county has jurisdiction over 5 townships, 9 towns, 3 ethnic townships and 2 17 villages, 134334 households with 406438+00000 people.
Rucheng is known as "three provinces crow and three rivers pour water". It is the birthplace of farming civilization and neo-Confucianism culture. Yandi Shennong's works are in Leishan, Rucheng, where Zhou Dunyi, the originator of Neo-Confucianism, wrote famous works such as Ailian Shuo, Taiji Tu Shuo and Zhuo Fu.
Topographic depression
Rucheng county is dominated by mountains, surrounded by mountains and hilly basins. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast; The water system is dendritic and radiates to the southeast and southwest. The main veins and branches of Bamian Mountain and Zhuguang Mountain, which pass through the county, are mostly distributed in the north and south directions.
The average elevation of the mountains to the west of Tongtianwo-Hanshan-Dongling is above 1 1,000m, and to the west of this line is a small civilized basin below 000m. In addition, there is the Rucheng Central Basin, which is below 700 meters above sea level, about 50 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide.
The southeast of Rucheng County is Dongling-Jilong Mountain; In the middle of the northern mountainous area, there is a Nandong basin below 800 meters above sea level. The county seat is 593 meters above sea level, and there are 274 peaks with an altitude of 1000 meters in the county, which are basically distributed in the north, northeast and southwest, among which the peaks with an altitude of 14 are 1500 meters.
The highest point, Wu Zhifeng, is located in Xiao Yuan Town, with an altitude of1726.6m.. The lowest point is in Sanjiangkou Development Zone in the south, with an altitude of160m. The maximum absolute height difference on the ground is1566.6m. ..