Ankang is located in the southeastern part of Shaanxi Province, south of the Ba Mountain and north of the Qinling. Measuring 200 km from east to west and 240 km from north to south, the prefecture-level city of covers an area of 23,500 square kilometers. The Han River (Hanshui) crosses it from west to east, forming a natural landform of "a plain between two mountains." Ankang's history and culture is nearly the same as Chinese culture, but with distinctive characteristics and geographical features marked by its diversity, which integrates east and west, north and south. It is influenced by Shaanxi culture, Chinese culture and Diqiang culture, with elements Bashu and Jinchu culture to form the present-day Han River culture after thousands of years of assimilation and fusion.