Jinhu is located in the central part of Jiangsu Province, west of Baoying Lake and Gaoyou Lake. It was established as a county in October 1959. Because Siguan Lake in the territory is known as "Jinhu", it was named "Jinhu", which symbolizes Rich in resources, the sun rises to make money. The county has a total area of ??1,393 square kilometers, governs 11 towns, and has a population of 370,000.

The former residence of Zhu De and Zhou Enlai

It is located in Chenzhai, the original Lishuxia Street in Taining County. The house was built in the early Qing Dynasty and has 3 halls and 18 auxiliary rooms, surrounded by wind and fire walls. From January 1932 to March 1934, the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army Zhu De and the General Political Commissar of the Red Army Zhou Enlai led their troops to Taining for deployment many times and lived in the Chenzhai Compound. Zhu De lived in the front room on the left side of the back hall. The other small rooms in the front and back halls housed the security company and the Red Army soldiers of the Fujian and Jiangxi Security Bureau. The auxiliary houses connected to the corridors on both sides and the small hall housed the communications company, the political department and confidential agencies; Zhou Enlai Live in the front room on the right side of the back hall. Behind the house is the foothills of Lufeng Mountain, where an air-raid shelter has been dug.

The naturally carved waterside scenery creates Jinhu’s unique tourist landscape. Jinhu County, known as the "Pearl of Huaiwei", is soaked in the elegance and warmth of water from top to bottom, from inside to outside. The rainbow-like Jinhu Bridge, the quiet and elegant Jiwei Forest Sea, the Min Bridge with ten thousand acres of lotus fragrance and green leaves, the relaxing and contented Baima Lake water scenery, etc., will keep you away from the hustle and bustle of the world. , enjoy the gifts of nature and taste the true meaning of life.

December 24th is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven, so there is a folk custom of sending stoves. In the old days, stoves were given as gifts, and every family prepared incense, candles, and paper horses. Make three kinds of meat, vegetarian and sugar pies, then arrange wheat bran, soybean and corn, tofu and dried noodles on the pot platform and stove hole, and paste an ancient painting of an official on horseback printed with yellow paper and ink on it. On the stove, it is called "running the stove", and a couplet on the stove is also posted: "God speaks good things, and the lower world keeps peace" and horizontally says: "Zao Lord's Mansion". When delivering the stove, the person giving the stove should first "offer". In front of "Zao Lord," Place two candle holders, a small incense burner, three rice cakes, a steamed bun, a bowl of tea and sugar cakes. The person delivering the stove lights the incense and candles, then burns dozens or even hundreds of gold foils (commonly known as "yuanbao") and prays at the door of the stove, while others set off firecrackers outside the house. The prayers when delivering the stove are full of compliments, such as: " On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, I send Master Zao to the West. Please Master Zao, please say more good things and less bad things, and ask for more grains and grains, so that everything will be done. Do your best to do as much as you can, buy and sell as much as you can, raise a Sha Niu (cow) to lay one litter a year, and raise a Lao Qi to lay three litters a year. After praying, withdraw. A handful of cow grass and wheat bran were brought into the kitchen hall, and he said, "The horse is well fed with grass and wheat bran." Kowtow four more times, and the ceremony of sending the stove is over/Superstition says that on this night, the Kitchen God will go to the Lingxiao Hall in the west to report the good and evil of the family, so every family sacrifices to him and asks him to play more good words, and he will be sent to heaven next year. auspicious. The dates for sending stoves vary. It is said that there was a rule in ancient times: "Officials, civilians, and turtles are kings and kings. That is, officials are on the 23rd, common people are on the 24th, and people who commit crimes are on the 25th. The date for sending stoves is to every family. Big "sweeping" is called "sweeping dust".