Quwo, which belongs to Linfen City, Shanxi Province, is located in the south-central part of Shanxi Province, at the southern end of Linfen Basin. It is bounded by Ta 'er Mountain (Chongshan Mountain), Qiaoshan Mountain, Luoding Mountain and Xiangfen County in the north, Tongjiang County in the south, Yicheng County in the east, Fenhe and Xiangfen County in the northwest and houma city in the southwest. History is called "abundant, strong and three rivers". The county has a total area of 437.9 square kilometers and a total population of 242,889, and governs 5 towns and 2 townships, with 158 administrative villages. It is a national modern agricultural demonstration zone, a national commodity grain base county, a national key vegetable county, an advanced county with county-level economic development in Shanxi Province, a demonstration industrial park in Shanxi Province, a demonstration base of new industrialized industries in Shanxi Province, one of the five major iron and steel bases in Shanxi Province, a demonstration county of modern agriculture in Shanxi Province and a demonstration county in Shanxi Province.
Quwo county is located in the east of Houma fault basin. Affected by the crustal orogeny, Taer Mountain (Chongshan) in the north and Zijinshan Mountain (Jiangshan) in the south uplift, forming a topographic unit with two mountains and one basin. The basin is distributed in the east-west direction, and most of it is alluvial plain. The landforms are mainly plains and hills, and the types are: rocky mountainous area, piedmont inclined plain area, loess plateau area, impact plain area and modern valley area. Among them, the plain area is 339.76 square kilometers, accounting for 77.58% of the county's total land area.
Quwo has a long history and is one of the earliest cradles of the Yellow River civilization. Because of its heavy historical accumulation and profound cultural background, it is known as the "underground museum" and "the source of Sanjin culture".
At present, there are 80 national and provincial cultural relics protection units 180, county-level cultural relics protection units 180, including Qucun Tianma Site, Yang She Cemetery, Dabeitang in Song Dynasty, Longquan Temple in Yuan Dynasty, brick tower of Induction Temple, Millennium Ginkgo Tree in Zhou and Qin Dynasties, Sanqing Temple Memorial Hall, and Sipailou in Ming Dynasty, with more than 5,000 pieces of cultural relics in the collection. Special snacks mainly include mutton soup, noodles, oil jelly and so on.
The main scenic spots in Quwo County are: Great Tragedy Hospital, Xuejia Courtyard, Sipailou and Ziqiao Lane.
In two weeks, especially during the 600 years from the closure of the Tang Dynasty to the division of Han, Zhao and Wei, Qu Wo spent nearly 400 years in the political, economic, cultural and military center of Jin State. In many cultural classics handed down from ancient times, such as Zhouyi, Shangshu, Book of Songs, Zuozhuan, Guoyu, etc., many pages are closely related to Qu Wo, especially many idioms and allusions that condense the essence of Chinese studies, such as thinking about drinking water, thinking about the source, joking, learning from the scriptures, feeling at home, staying away from home, etc., mostly come from or are related to it. According to statistics, among more than 5,500 words in the Chinese Idiom Dictionary, there are more than 1000 idioms directly or indirectly related to the history of Quwo in Shanxi. Therefore, Quwo is also one of the important origins of the formation of Chinese idioms and allusions. At present, Quwo County is actively applying for the title of "Hometown of Idioms in China", and on this basis, the promotion and inheritance of idiom culture is regarded as an important content of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan". According to the idea of building "the largest idiom industry development base, idiom culture education base, idiom culture research and exchange base, idiom culture tourism resort", we will make great efforts to attract investment from all directions and high platforms, and strive to build China idiom culture city.