Hukou County, which belongs to Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, is bordered by Pengze County to the east, Duchang County to the south, Lianxi District, Jiujiang County and Lushan City (formerly Xingzi County) to the west across Poyang Lake, and susong County, Anhui Province to the north.
The territory of Hukou County, as far back as the late Neolithic period, has been inhabited by humans here, ancient belonged to the domain of Yangzhou, the Spring and Autumn Warring States period successively belonged to the State of Wu, the State of Yue, the State of Chu, and the Qin Dynasty belonged to the jurisdiction of Jiujiang County.
At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the present-day county was divided into Pengze County and Wuyang County (that is, present-day Duchang County), and in the second year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (26 years), the entire territory of the present-day county was under the jurisdiction of Pengze County. When Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the commander of Pengze County, the seat of pengze county was liu dezhao village in yuanjiangqiao township of present-day Hukou County.
During the Liu Song Dynasty, Hukoushu was first established, and it was still under the jurisdiction of Pengze County. In the second year of the Fifth Dynasty Southern Tang Dynasty (938), Pengze Township in Pengze County and Half-placed Hukou County in Wuliu Township were analyzed, and the county was ruled by Xiaoyang Town (southwest of present-day Shuangzhong Town).
Since then, through the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and Hukou counties have successively belonged to Jiangzhou, Dingjiangjun, Jiangzhou Road, and Jiujiang Province.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hukou County was successively subordinated to the Raozhou Special Office and the Jiujiang Special Bureau, and in 1983 it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level Jiujiang City.
Hukou County is named because it is located in the mouth of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, into the Yangtze River, with a total area of 669 square kilometers, 6 townships, 6 towns and 2 fields under its jurisdiction, with a total population of 310,000 people, and Hukou County is also the starting point of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Historical celebrities of Hukou County: Ma Shi (Northern Song Dynasty), Zhang Ke (Ming Dynasty Anti-Wu Official), Gao Xinkui (Qing Dynasty Jinshi, one of the "Five Gentlemen of Sumen"), Yu Qing'ao (expert in gun manufacturing in the late Qing Dynasty), Yang Gengsheng, Gao Juyi, etc.