Heyuezhou, formerly known as "Lotus Leaf Island", is round and surrounded by water, like a lotus leaf floating on the water. Located in the Yangtze River in Anhui Province. According to legend, the Prince of Guluo made a pilgrimage to Jiuhua Mountain, passing through the Lotus Hill in Tongcheng County, stepped on one foot, and cut the whole Lotus Hill into two sections. The lotus head descended along the river and grew lotus leaves, hence the name Lotus Leaf Island. The recently unearthed land, the stone tablet of Fude Temple, reads: this continent. Chinese carving: the shrine of land Ford temple. Inscription: the first day of February in Qing Shunzhi. The monument erected in this temple shows that people settled in Heyuezhou in 1652, which has a history of more than 330 years.

The pioneers who first came to Heyuezhou did it by inserting grass as the target. Be the "monarch" first and the "minister" later. With the change of history, the conflict between the settlers for the annexation of land has also deepened. The owner who occupied the land first aroused the indignation of the later settlers, which led to endless disputes for years. Later, in view of this dispute, the government and the people changed the lotus leaf into a harmonious one, which meant to be pleasant: to live in good neighborliness. Peng Yulin, the prefect of Qingshui Division, was also told to come to Lotus Island to practice the navy division. He thought that Lotus Leaf was old and weak, so he changed his name to "Heyue" in a taboo way. This name is still in use today.

Heyuezhou in Datong Town, Tongling County looks like a lotus leaf floating on the river from a distance. Heyuezhou, named Lotus Leaf Island in ancient times, covers an area of about 2 square kilometers. It is a Jiang Xinzhou that has been uplifted by sediment deposition for thousands of years. According to the "Monument to Fude Temple" unearthed in Heyuezhou during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, a natural village was formed here in the early Qing Dynasty.

After several generations of pioneers' hard work, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the continent was densely populated and had quite a town scale. It is said that it was renamed Heyuezhou by Peng Yulin, the prefect of the Qing navy and the leader of the Xiang army. Peng Yulin thought that Heyezhou was a natural sheltered harbor, so he trained troops here to raise salaries, and set up administrative and tax authorities on the continent, such as General Ya, Lijin Bureau and Wan 'an Supervision and Marketing Bureau, and built three streets paved with granite strips and 10 long lanes leading directly to the riverside. Because the streets are adjacent to thatched cottages, fires keep breaking out, and people on the continent are arguing over land, Peng Yulin renamed Heyezhou when he reviewed the navy division, in order that his businessmen should be pleasant to the face before their business could flourish. The 1920s to 1930s were the heyday of Datong and Yuezhou, and they were known as "little shanghai". During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Japanese planes bombed Heyuezhou twice, and then the Kuomintang carried out scorched-earth war of resistance, and Heyuezhou declined from then on.

Despite the vicissitudes of hundreds of years, Heyuezhou still attracts tourists from far and near with its elegant and quiet pastoral scenery, honest and simple folk customs and heavy history and culture. 1996, the provincial government announced "Datong-Heyuezhou" as a provincial historical and cultural protection zone; In 2004, Guzhen Datong also won the Model Award of China's Human Settlements.