Wuhu

Wuhu (Simplified Chinese: 芜湖; pinyin: Wúhú; literally "Weedy Lake") is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Anhui province, People's Republic of China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to the southwest, Chaohu to the northwest, Ma'anshan to the northeast, and the province of Jiangsu to the east.In the Western world, the Chinese city Wuhu is now known as the home city to many adopted Chinese children. However, the seemingly characterless litte town means different things to those natives who still feel about its history. The city was where the greatest Chinese poet Li Bai spent his late life. Li Bai was born in a Central Asian town and raised in the southwestern China. He determined to stay around Wuhu in his late years as he enjoyed the landscape of the district. Xie Tiao, one of the most distinctive Six Dynasty poets he greatly admired, left many poems when holding positions here. In the Tang dynasty (619-907), the poet Du Mu wrote a famous poem Thoughts on Staying Again at Wuhu. A factory in Wuhu carries on the local craft of making wrought iron pictures. Other local handicrafts are embossed lacquerware and rice straw pith patchwork. A famous stone tablet in Wuhu recording local events of the Song dynasty period (ca. 1000 AD) is considered to be a masterpiece of the renowned calligrapher Mi Fu. Area code:553