Where did Quanzhou come from?

Quanzhou is a derivative of the whole southern Fujian in history, including Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Longyan and other prefecture-level cities. But the place name of Quanzhou was not owned at the beginning.

Tongzhou, the first in the north, and Quanzhou, Fujian, were formed in the Sui Dynasty. However, Quanzhou at that time was Quanzhou today, but Fuzhou today. It was not until the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty that the place names of Quanzhou were fixed and became the eternal names of Quanzhou. Its subordinate country, Jinjiang, is a adherent of the Jin Dynasty who moved southward. In order to commemorate the hometown of the Central Plains, this river and its flow direction were named Jinjiang.

The land of Quanzhou Plain, like Fuzhou Plain, Putian Plain and Zhangzhou Plain, was formed by sea level rise and continental shelf, but the same era is unknown. What needs to be added is that most of these plains are caused by sea level rise and fall, except a tiny part of them are formed by river alluvial.

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Geographical location: Quanzhou is located at117 25'-19 05' east longitude and 24 30'-25 56' north latitude. It is located on the southeast coast of Fujian Province and the west bank of Taiwan Strait, only 97 nautical miles from Taiwan Province Province and 5.66 miles from Kinmen. Land area 1 10 14.78 square kilometers (including Jinmen Island), accounting for about 9.08% of the land area of the province.

Quanzhou geotectonics is located in the southeast of South China fold system, and in the south-central part of eastern Fujian volcanic rift zone. The structural belts are all distributed in northeast-southwest direction. More than four-fifths of the country is distributed in Mesozoic volcanic rocks and intrusive rocks, accounting for about half of the exposed area, and the distribution area of intrusive rocks increases from northwest to southeast to become the main body.

The trunk of Daiyun Mountain in the middle part of the mountain range in central Fujian is distributed in the northeast-southwest direction, located in Dehua in the northwest, with a huge scale. The elevation of the main peak is1856m, which is the second highest peak in Fujian province. Its branches and residual veins extend to the southeast and south, and the terrain is high in the northwest, and gradually decreases to the southeast, forming a multi-layer landform landscape that gradually changes from low-middle mountains to hills and platforms to plains.

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