gaozhoushiIntroduction：Gaozhou Introduction: Gaozhou, Maoming City, Guangdong Province, the county-level city. In the southwest of Guangdong Province, southwestern Guangdong, east to the South China Sea, south to Jianjiang Plain, west to Guangxi, north to Yunkai Dashan, to the six counties of the city of Guangdong and Guangdong, east to Yangchun City, Dianbai District, south to Mao The southern district and the north are connected to Xinyi City, the southwest is connected with Huazhou City, and the northwest is connected with Guangxi Beiliu City. Gaozhou City was originally called Maoming County and Gaozhou County. It was transformed from Maoming County (from the Yuan Dynasty) to Maoming County. It is the political, economic and cultural center of the ancient Gaozhou House (the front center is Yangxi County, and the name is before and after Changed). After the establishment of Maoming City, the remaining majority and Xinyi County were changed to the original state name for Gaozhou County (early merged with Xinyi, after the division); in 1993, the county-level city was established as Gaozhou City. It is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong, the birthplace of the important thinking of the "Three Represents", and the "hometown of Chinese folk art (puppet)" (Gaozhou puppet show is named as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage), "China's Yulian Cultural City" ". It is rich in the three famous fruits of Lingnan - banana, longan and lychee, and is known as the "National Fruit First County". [2-3] (Note: There are two concepts about Gaozhou, one refers to Gaozhou nowadays, and the other refers to the center of Yangzhou County, which moved to the Gaozhou Prefecture of Gaozhou City. The former is the usual meaning today, this article from The latter has gradually been abandoned since the establishment of the Republic of China, and only exists in overseas organizations related to history, such as the Guangxi Guangxi and Gaozhou Guild Halls. See the Gaozhou Prefecture entry for details.)