Introduction to Langzhong

Langzhong, called Baoning in ancient times, is a county-level city in Sichuan Province, located in the northeast of Sichuan Basin, the middle reaches of Jialing River and the southern foot of Qinba Mountain. Surrounded by mountains and water. It is adjacent to Bazhong City and Yilong County in the east, nanbu county in the south, Jiange County in the west and Cangxi County in the north. For more than 2,000 years, it has been a military center in Bashu, with the reputation of "Fairyland in Yuen Long" and "Rare in Langzhong". Langzhong covers an area of 1.878 square kilometers, governs 2 1 township, 25 towns and 4 sub-district offices, with a total population of 88 1.9 million (20 10), including 320,000 urban residents. It is a demonstration city of ecological construction in China, an excellent tourist city in China, a thousand-year-old county town in the world, and the hometown of Spring Festival culture in China. Langzhong Ancient City, one of the four best-preserved ancient towns in China, is located beside Langzhong New City and beside Jialing River. The architectural style of Langzhong ancient city embodies the ancient residential geomantic concept of China. The chessboard-style ancient city pattern, which combines the buildings of north and south styles, has formed architectural groups with different styles, such as "semi-pearl", "product" and "multi", which is a typical example of "harmony between man and nature" in the site selection of China ancient city. The ruins of the ancient city is a city that completely conforms to the astronomical geomantic theory of the Tang Dynasty, and is called the ancient geomantic city. Langzhong is known as "Fairyland in Yuen Long" and "Bashu Forest", and the poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty left a famous sentence here: "Langzhou is vast and sparsely populated in the south of the city".