广宗县是邢台市东部历史悠久的千年古县,文化底蕴深厚,著名的广宗太平道乐就起源于此。“广宗”一名始见于西汉时期,《汉书·诸侯王表》载:汉元始二年,封代孝王玄孙刘如意为广宗王,盖取“推广宗子”之意为名(《威县志》),数年后国除,后汉时置为广宗县。然而,那时的广宗在今天的威县境内。今广宗县在东汉时为经县地,隋、唐时期为平乡县地,元代始析平乡县增置广宗县,即沿袭了其东不远的古广宗之名。民国《广宗县志》记载:“广宗全境地势平衍,无崇山峻岭,土壤概系沙质,到处堆积成丘,自古以沙丘著名。”历史上这里地瘠民 Guangzong County is the eastern part of Xingtai City, a long history of thousands of ancient county, profound cultural connotation, the famous Guangzong Taiping Daoyou originated in this. “Guangzong ” one was found in the Western Han Dynasty, “Han princes table” contains: the first year of the Han dynasty, Feng Xiaowen Xuan Sun Liu Ruyi Guangzong Wang, cover “promotion Zuzi” means Name (“Wei County”), a few years after the country, the late Han Guangzong County. However, Guangzong was in Wei County today. Today Guangzong County in the Eastern Han Dynasty by the county, Sui and Tang Dynasties for the Pingxiang County, Yuan Dynasty analysis Pingxiang County, Guangzong County, that is, followed its east near the ancient Guangzong name. “Guangzong County,” recorded in the Republic of China: “Guangzong flat topography throughout the territory, no high mountains, the soil of the whole system of sand, everywhere into a mound, known since ancient times to the sand dunes.”