Fengyang

Fengyang is a county in north central Anhui Province, China, under the administration of Chuzhou, a prefecture level city. The county was home to 765,600 people as of 2013 and is divided into 14 towns and one township, with its county seat in Fucheng Town. Its northern border is formed by the Huai River, and it contains the roughly 30 square kilometre Huayuan Lake. It is best known as the home of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty, who as the Hongwu Emperor built an imperial style mausoleum for his parents there and began building the new capital Zhongdu near his childhood hometown before the project was abandoned.