Chaohu Lake is located in the middle of Anhui Province, surrounded by Hefei, Chaohu Lake, Feidong, Feixi and Lujiang River. It is 55km long from east to west, 2 1 km wide from north to south, with a coastline of176km, an average water depth of 2.89m, an area of 780 square kilometers and a volume of 2.07 billion cubic meters.

Anhui cuisine originated in Shexian county and is famous for its heavy oil, heavy color, heavy firepower, good color, fragrance and shape. In terms of cooking methods, Anhui cuisine is good at cooking, stewing and steaming. Representative dishes include sand horseshoe turtle, oxtail raccoon dog in snowy days, bamboo shoots in Zheng Wen, mandarin fish, peony stewed in phoenix, pigeon stewed in Huangshan, hairy tofu and so on. Riverside dishes are popular in Wuhu, Anqing and Chaohu, and they are good at making seafood and poultry. The famous ones are fried chicken with fragrant sand, raw smoked chicken, eight hammers, Maofeng smoked fish, grilled fish with fire, crab-yellow shrimp cups and so on.

Four major freshwater lakes:

Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, was called Pengze in ancient times. It is located in the north of Jiangxi Province, China, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and is a national 5A-level tourist attraction. Dongting Lake, called Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu in ancient times, was named after Dongting Mountain in the lake during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Dongting Lake water system refers to the water network system that eventually flows into Dongting Lake, including the river network waterway in Dongting Lake Plain and the first-class tributaries of the Yangtze River such as Xiangjiang River, Zijiang River, Lishui River and Yuanjiang River.

Taihu Lake, located in the southern edge of the Yangtze River Delta, was called Zhenze and Giant Canal in ancient times, also known as Wuhu and Lize. It spans Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, connecting Wuxi in the north, Huzhou in the south, Yixing in the west and Suzhou in the east. There are many rivers, ports and estuaries in Taihu Lake, with more than 50 major rivers entering and leaving. Hongze Lake is located in the lower reaches of Huaihe River in the west of Jiangsu Province, on the west side of the central part of Subei Plain, in Huai 'an and Suqian.