page_title: Huangzhou District
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Huangzhou District / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Maps of Huangzhoufu (now Huangzhou District in Huanggang, Hubei) and Yongzhoufu (now in Hunan) in Huguang from the Dutch edition of Du Halde's Description of China, Vol. I, p. 203. Français&#160;: "Autres Villes du premier Ordre, dans la Province de Hou-quang: Hoang-tcheou-fou" avec "le Fleuve Kiang" et "Yong-tcheou-fou, VIIe Ville de la partie Méridionale". Gravure extraite de Description de la Chine, édition de La Haye 1736. Tome 1 page 203.
context_page_description: Huangzhou District is an urban district of Huanggang, Hubei province, China.
context_section_description: In 845 BC Marquis Wen 文侯 Huang Meng 黃孟 (aka Huang Zhang 黃璋) moved the capital of the State of Huang from Yicheng to Huangchuan (present-day Huangchuan, Henan). Huang Xi's descendants ruled State of Huang until 648 BC when it was destroyed by the State of Chu. The Marquis of Huang, Marquis Mu 穆侯 Huang Qisheng 黃企生, fled to the state of Qi. The people of Huang were forced to relocate to Chu. They settled in the region of present-day Hubei province, in a region known as the Jiangxia Prefecture 江夏郡 during the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). There are many places in this region today that were named after Huang e.g. Huanggang, Huangpi, Huangmei, Huangshi, Huang'an (now Hong'an), Huangzhou etc. A large number of the people of Huang were also relocated to regions south of the Yangtze River.
  Huangzhou was previously a separate city which administered a prefecture in its own right. Huanggang Middle School and the campuses of Huanggang Normal University are located in Huangzhou.
caption: Maps of "Hoang-tcheou-fou" and "Yong-tcheou-fou" from Du Halde's 1735 Description of China, based on accounts by Jesuit missionaries.
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