Shaoguan was called Shaozhou in ancient times and was named after Shao Shi. From 1943 to 1945, Shaoguan was established as the temporary capital of Guangdong Province. Shaoguan City was established in Qujiang City on 1949+065438 10. From 65438 to 0975, Shaoguan was upgraded to a prefecture level city. Rivers mainly belong to the Beijiang River Basin of the Pearl River system, with Zhenjiang as the main stream and Wujiang, Mojiang, Jinjiang, Wengjiang and Nanshui as the main tributaries.
Shaoguan is the gathering place of Hakka culture, the hometown of Maba people, the birthplace of Shi Xia culture, the ancestral home of Zen culture and the hometown of the famous Zhang Jiuling. Nanxiong Zhuji Gu Xiang is the birthplace and hometown of Guangfu culture? , is the main inhabited area of ethnic minorities in Guangdong. Known as "Lingnan County".
It is an excellent tourist city in China, a national double-support model city, a national health city, a national garden city, a historical and cultural city, a civilized city, a health city and a garden city in Guangdong Province, a regional central city planned and built in Guangdong Province, a core city in Shaoguan metropolitan area and one of the national transportation hub cities. 2065438+In September 2009, it was selected as the second batch of national industrial transformation and upgrading demonstration zones.
The topography and climate of Shaoguan
Shaoguan City is located at the southern foot of Nanling Mountains, and the whole region is located in the Hunan-Guangdong fold belt of Huaxia activation platform. The geological structure is complex, igneous rocks are widely distributed, the strata are basically complete, and karst landforms are widely distributed. The rocks are mainly red glutenite, sandstone, metamorphic rocks, granite and limestone. In geological history, it is an intermittent rising area, with strong flowing water erosion, resulting in many canyons, steep mountains and planation planes at all levels, mainly mountainous and hilly landforms.
Shaoguan belongs to subtropical humid monsoon climate zone with pleasant climate. The annual average temperature is 2 1℃, the annual average rainfall is 1700 mm, the frost-free period is about 3 10 days, and there is snow in the north in winter.
The above content is referenced from Baidu Encyclopedia-Shaoguan