Tianmen City, anciently known as Jingling, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province, a city under direct provincial control, a member of the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, the city cluster in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and a regional center city of Hubei Province.In 1994, with the approval of the State Council, Hubei Province decided to put Tianmen City under direct provincial control. As of 2022, Tianmen City has 3 streets, 21 towns, and 1 township under its jurisdiction, with a resident population of 1,105,800.
Tianmen City is located in the south-central part of Hubei Province and the northern part of the Jianghan Plain, with the Dahong Mountain in the north, the Han River in the south, and 90 kilometers away from Wuhan City in the east, with a total area of 2,622 square kilometers. Rivers across the territory, lakes, abundant rainfall, rich in produce, known as the "land of fish and rice", is the country's top 100 counties, China's top 100 counties and cities of investment potential, the country's top 100 counties and cities of industry, the country's top 100 manufacturing counties and cities, the country's top 100 counties and cities of the business environment, the city's GDP in 2022 to realize 73.005 billion yuan.
Tianmen has a deep historical and humanistic heritage, and is the important birthplace of Chinese civilization and Chu culture, the hometown of Lu Yu, the Sage of Tea, and a famous cultural hometown. Tianmen Shijiahe site 5900 years ago was the center of civilization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River for thousands of years. Since the Qin Dynasty set up Jingling County, Tianmen has more than 2,000 years of history, 1726 (Qing Yongzheng four years) because of the territory of Tianmen Mountain and named. Lu Yu, the founder of tea culture in Tang Dynasty, Pi Rixiu, the famous poet, Zhong Xing and Tan Yuanchun, the founders of Jingling School in Ming Dynasty, and Jingzhou Flower Drum Opera, one of the three major dramas in Hubei, were born here. Ming and Qing dynasties, a total of 468 people, including Jiang Liyong for the Qing Jiaqing sixteen year scholar. Since modern times, the Tianmen overseas Chinese residing abroad up to 280,000 people, making Tianmen the largest inland hometown of overseas Chinese. Tianmen is China's hometown of steamed vegetables, China's hometown of Chinese opera, China's hometown of tea culture, China's hometown of folk culture and art, the national hometown of Go, is the only Chu has the material, after all the eight friends of the idioms such as allusion to the place of origin, there is the tea saint's hometown of the garden, the Hu family garden and other attractions.