page_title: Daye
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Daye / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Hankou (Han-k'ou, Hankow) area, Hubei
context_page_description: Daye is a county-level city in eastern Hubei province, China. It is under the administration of the Huangshi prefecture-level city.
  As it is usually the case with county-level cities, Daye includes both an urban core and a fair amount of rural land in all directions, with smaller townships such as Dajipu. According to the Fifth Population Census of China, the entire county-level city of Daye had 813,600 residents, with a population density of 558 people per square kilometer. The city is made up of 18 township-level divisions.
  The Daye Lake south of Daye's urban core is surrounded by parks and fishing ponds, and is a popular place for recreation.
  For a traveler who goes on G316 from Wuhan toward the south-east, Daye appears as a border between the more urban and more rural parts of the province. Daye sits on the south-eastern border of the heavily industrialized Wuhan/Ezhou/Huangshi metropolitan area; south of it, the much more rural Yangxin County begins.
context_section_description: Daye County existed on and off for centuries; as recently as the World War II period, it included much of today's prefecture-level city of Huangshi. This means that pre-1949 references to a location in "Daye" or "Tayeh" may refer to anywhere within today's Huangshi.
  Daye County was re-established on June 1, 1962, on a rather smaller scale, as part of Huangshi City. On February 18, 1994 Daye was converted into a county-level city, still within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi.
caption: Map including Daye (labeled as TA-YEH 大冶) (1953)
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