The history of the provinceanhui can be traced to the Spring and Autumn period more than 2,500 years ago. The Yangtze River and Huai River run through the provinceanhui. North of the provinceanhui in plain, while in the south is mountainous and hilly. Climate varies greatly between the north and the south. Annual rainfall ranges from 750 millimeters to 1,700 millimeters. The mail industries are metal making, power, machine engineering, petrochemical, electronics, textiles, food and papermaking. While the major farm produce includes rice, wheat, vegetable oil crops, tea, jute, silkworm, tea, and tobacco. Transportation is very convenient, and it is easy of access to any part of China via air, railway, and expressways. Prime tourist attractions include the picturesque Mount Jiuhua, Shouxian County and Hongcun and Xidi villages. The special locally made products are Xuan paper, ink stone, and Chinese paintbrush.

Towering 1873 meters above sea lever in the south of Anhui provinceanhui, Mount Huangshan also called Yellow Mountain used to be called Mount Yishan in the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC). It got its present name in 747. Legend claims that the emperor came here to cultivate his moral character and try to make pills of immortality (as a Taoist practice), hence the name. Mount Huangshan encompasses 250 square kilometers, of which 154 square kilometers are the quintessence. It is one of the most magnificent scenic spots in China and is also a well-known attraction the world over.
Mount Huangshan is magnificent for its beautiful peaks and rocks. Of all the numerous peaks, 72 peaks are very famous and half of them are big ones, the rest are small ones. The three biggest ones are the Lotus Flower Peak, the Bright Summit, and the Heavenly Capital Peak; The highest Lotus Flower Peak towers in the central part of Mount Huangshan. Clouds veil the peaks all the year round, changing the scenes of the mountains in a mysterious atmosphere. With the elapsing of time, nearly every peak composes of fantastic rock.

Mount Jiuhua in Anhui provinceanhui, is one of the four Buddhist shrines, the other there are Mount Wutai is Shanxi provinceanhui, Mount Emei in Sichuan provinceanhui, and Mount Putuo in Zhejuang provinceanhui in China.
It is said that Ksitigarbha or Dizang (the Bodhisattva of Salvation) is enshrined on Mount Jiuhua. Ksitigarbha is one of the Mahayana Bodhisattvas of Buddhism. Buddhism relates that after the death of Sakyamuni and before the emergence of Maitreya, Ksitigarbha was the Bodhisattva that saved all the living an unlimited amount of the best strains of seeds.

Hongcun is known as the “cow-shaped village” since the pond us shaped like a cow’s belly and the dyke looks like one of the cow’s leg. More than 800 years old, the village was first constructed during the Song Dynasty. The village now was first constructed during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The village now boasts 158 residential buildings that date back to the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties. Nearly 140 are still in good shape. Although new buildings account for 30 per cent of the village’s total area, they are either smartly concealed or far removed from the aged ones. Some villagers have already moved out of their ancestral homes to make way for tourists. Others still live there and open parts of their homes to visitors. Local authorities have bought ancient homes from owners who prefer to move into new ones. And local authorities only allow villages to rebuild their houses nearby the village, so that they don’t overshadow the ancient ones, before Mt. Huangshan became a city in 1987, it had no air or rail links to the outside world; the nearest city was hours away. From their imposing look to delicate ornamental details like woodcarvings on window frames and banisters, the buildings feature fine workmanship that is hard to find today.