Dangtu County is the only county under the jurisdiction of Ma'anshan

Ma'anshan

Ma'anshan , also written as Maanshan, is a prefecture-level city in the east of Anhui province in Eastern China. An industrial city stretching across the Yangtze River, Ma'anshan borders Hefei to the west, Wuhu to the southwest, and Nanjing to the east...

 City in eastern Anhui Province, People's Republic of China.

Dangtu is one of the longest established counties in eastern China and formed part of the Taiping Prefecture

Taiping Prefecture

Taiping Prefecture was an administrative region of China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that spanned roughly the areas of the modern day cities of Ma'anshan and Wuhu in Anhui Province. During the Ming Dynasty the prefecture was classified as part of Southern Zhili and later came under the...

 during the Ming

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

 and Qing

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

 Dynasties.

Culture

Dangtu County has a long history of more than 2000 years as a county.It was called Danyang丹阳 in Qin Dynasty .While in Sui Dynasty it got the name as "Dangtu" 当涂.A famous poet named Xie Tiao

Xie Tiao

Xie Tiao , his style name is Xuan Hui. Xie Tiao was born in Yangjia.He was one of the foremost Chinese poets of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.He was known as "Xiao Xie" compared with Xie Lingyun....

谢朓 once prasied Dangtu County as the place for beautiful mountains and rivers.Li Bai had come to Dangtu for seven times.His uncle used to be the governor of Dangtu County.There is a memorial to the famous Chinese poet, Li Bai

Li Bai

Li Bai , also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially Li Po, was a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing...

(aka Li Po c.700-762), who is said to have drowned at Dangtu after attempting to embrace the reflection of the moon.While this is only a local legend.And Dangtu people always feel familiar with many poems Li Bai wrote because the beautiful seceneries describled in those poems are actually the places they always lived all their lives.