Quyuan town

Quyuan town

Quyuan Town, subordinate to Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, is located between niuganmafei gorge and bingshubaojian gorge in Lingxia, Jiangxi Province. It spans the north and south sides of the Yangtze River and is within reach of the Three Gorges dam. It is the birthplace of Quyuan, the world's four major cultural celebrities, and the site of two famous geological disasters, Xintan Landslide and lianziyan project, with an administrative area of 217.42 square kilometers It now governs 12 villages, including Xintan, Xilingxia, lianziyan, Changjiang, Longmaxi, Tianlong, puping, qishuping, xiannaping, Quyuan, Beifeng, fenghuangxi and jiulingtou, 1 neighborhood committee, 68 villager groups, and 12590 people (in 2017), with a cultivated area of 23600 mu, including 10021 mu of citrus.

Quyuan Town, Hubei Province

Quyuan town has a long history. In October 1995, the town was formed by merging nine villages of the former Xintan town and the former Quyuan township. In August 1998, the former state-owned jiulingtou forest farm was transferred to Quyuan town. Xintan has a history of more than 1600 years. Fan Chengda said in Wu Chuanlu: "Xintan was once famous for its Three Gorges, and the mountains collapsed again in the Jin and Han Dynasties, so it was named Xintan.". Xinanyi was set up in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhouzhi moved to Xintan in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Xinan town was set up in Ming Dynasty and Xintan town in Qing Dynasty.

Quyuan town has a profound cultural heritage. Xiajiang culture is rich and colorful. Folk oral literature includes local legends, stories, ballads, proverbs, etc., folk songs include five sentence folk songs, ditty, children's songs, weeping and marriage songs, funeral dance, weeding drums and gongs, etc., and folk instrumental music includes folk percussion music, Pipa string, etc. Folk opera includes shadow play, folk dance includes flower drum, clam shell, colorful lotus boat, folk art includes cross stitch and embroidery, and culture commemorating Qu Yuan includes dragon boat rowing, eating palm seed and hanging mugwort. In 1982, the peasants in lepingli spontaneously set up a peasant poetry society, Sanlu saotan poetry society, with the purpose of commemorating Qu Yuan and publicizing Qu Yuan. The poetry society produced more than 200 poems in 5 volumes. Qu Yuan's stories and works are widely spread.

Quyuan town is rich in resources. The geological structure of the town is ancient and complex, which is composed of various limestone, siliceous rock and dolomite. Xintan shale is an ideal material for firing shale brick. There is a large amount of coal and abundant water resources. Citrus cultivation has a long history. Navel orange, peach leaf orange and Jin orange, which are known as the "Three Beauties" of Xiajiang, are planted, especially the peach leaf orange. It is a famous specialty of the town and has won the Ministry's Gold Award for many times.

Quyuan town is extremely rich in tourism resources and is well-known throughout the country. Xiling Gorge, with its beautiful scenery and dangerous cliffs, the legendary bingshubaojian gorge, niuganmafei gorge, the world-famous Xintan Landslide site and lianziyan dangerous rock treatment are wonders. In Leping, Qu Yuan's hometown, there are eight sceneries on the ground and eight caves underground. In order to develop Quyuan tourism, the people's Government of Quyuan town invited relevant experts to make a scientific plan for the "Quyuan Cultural Park" in 2002, which has passed the expert evaluation. Now the feasibility study environmental impact assessment is in progress, and the future development prospect is promising.

Overview of the town

① Town name: Quyuan town. ② Location: it is located between niuganmafei gorge and bingshubaojian gorge in Lingxia of Jiangxi Province, across the north and south sides of the Yangtze River, and within sight of the Three Gorges dam. ③ Transportation: the new wharf of Quyuan town was officially opened in 2003, and the road hardening of Quxia road was officially started. ④ Population: 12590 (2017). ⑤ Specialty: navel orange, peach leaf orange, brocade orange.

Important scenic spots

Niu Gan Ma Fei Xia

BINGSHU Baojian gorge is located in the upper part of Xiling Gorge. It starts from Shuifu Temple of Xiangxi in the West and ends at shangtantuo of Xintan in the East, with a total length of 5 km. According to the records of Guizhou Mountain and water, Xiangxi "flows eastward three li to be BINGSHU gorge, also known as Baigou gorge. The stone wall in the south of the gorge is folded in the middle with a width of five feet. It is said that there is a divine power lock, which has not fallen for a long time. It is called suoshan. A hole in the stone wall in the north of the gorge is said to be the place where Zhuge Wuhou collected military books. It looks like a book. " In fact, BINGSHU Baojian gorge is in the north of the Yangtze River, and Baigou gorge is in the south of the Yangtze River. Both Gorges are named after objects. Under BINGSHU Baojian gorge, there is a huge rock, like a long sword, which plunges into the bottom of the water, so it's named. It's said that "it's a miracle that the stack of military books is actually two hanging coffins, which have been piled up in the cave for thousands of years.

Niuganmafei gorge is located in the eastern section of BINGSHU Baojian gorge, with a total length of 4.5 km, starting from fenghuangzui of Xintan in the West and ending at yanjiadong of Maoping in the East. In fact, the ox liver and horse lung are stalactites formed by the deposition of calcium carbonate in the groundwater. There is a ballad sung by the Cilician in Xiling Gorge: "strange stones were born in this liver lung, just like hanging on a blue cloud. Thousands of years of rain has not been decayed, and the sun has not dried for thousands of years. The passers-by in the boat often look at each other. The fisherman on the other side looks carefully. The eagle spreads its wings for it. It's hard to wait to satisfy its hunger. " Nowadays, the liver of cattle is still intact, while the lung of horse was destroyed by British warships in the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu. Niuganmafei gorge, with its unique mountains and rocks, is very vivid and impressive.

Hometown of Quyuan

Qu Yuan's hometown, formerly known as lepingli, is called Sanlu Township, Quyuan Township, quping Township and luojiaoping township. The Xiangluping in Leping is the place where Qu Yuan was born. It is said that Qu Yuan's former residence is in Xiangluping. Lepingli is a small Intermountain basin, where quping River and Xianggu River converge. It faces Fuhu mountain in the East, Wangzhai mountain in the west, jiulingtou in the south, Tianchi mountain in the north, and zhonglingyuxiu. Up to now, there are Quyuan temple, reading cave, yinshitai, zhaomianjing and other sites. It's said that it was the place where Qu Yuan studied and combed when he was young. Yuan song was quoted in the book of shuijingzhu Jiangshui as saying: "there are old farmland houses of Quyuan in the northeast of Zigui. Although the ridges and weirs are overflowing, they are still known as protecting Qutian."

Qu Yuan was born in the Ming Dynasty and in the 42nd year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. There were two Qu Yuan temples, which were abandoned due to disrepair. The newly built Quyuan temple is of brick and wood structure, which is composed of Mountain Gate, auxiliary room and main hall. On the green tile and pink wall, the painting is simple and elegant, and there is an inscription on the rebuilding of Quyuan temple in Sanlu.

Address: Quyuan Town, Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province

Longitude: 110.835418

Latitude: 30.930961

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