Hongdou Village

Hongdou Village

The red bean village is located in the east of Gushan Town, Jiangyin, located at the junction of four cities (districts) of Jiangyin, Changshu, Zhangjiagang and Wuxi. The total area of the area is 7.4 square kilometers, 42 natural villages, 60 villagers' groups and 6245 registered residence population.

In Hongdou village, there is a Hongdou courtyard under the Hongdou tree (team), and there is a millennium Hongdou tree in the Hongdou courtyard.

On December 25, 2019, the State Forestry and grassland administration identified Hongdou village in Gushan town as a national forest village.

A brief introduction to the village

The red bean village is located in the east of Gushan Town, Jiangyin, located at the junction of four cities (districts) of Jiangyin, Changshu, Zhangjiagang and Wuxi. The total area of the area is 7.4 square kilometers, with 4832 mu of cultivated land, 42 natural villages, 60 villagers' groups and 6245 registered residence population.

Get honor

It has successively won the titles of "health village in Jiangsu Province", "ecological village in Jiangsu Province", "well-off project standard village in Wuxi", "new rural construction advanced village in Wuxi", "beautiful rural residential environment village in Wuxi", "top ten beautiful villages in Jiangyin", "beautiful rural village in Wuxi", "beautiful rural pilot village of Ministry of agriculture", "national one village one product demonstration village" and "leisure and sightseeing agriculture in Jiangsu" "Demonstration village" and other honorary titles.

Historical allusions

The red bean tree in Gushan red bean courtyard is said to be planted by Prince Zhaoming of Liang Dynasty. It has a history of more than 1400 years and is listed as a key cultural relic. Entering hongdouyuan, we can see that this rare ancient tree is tall and straight, with branches supporting tens of meters away. It looks like a giant umbrella. Although it has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes, it is still full of vitality and luxuriant branches and leaves. According to the manager, this red bean tree blooms and bears fruit every three to five years. It blooms at the turn of spring and summer, and its color is white. At the end of autumn, the pods are brown and like a chicken heart. Peel the pod, it is a heart-shaped red bean, can if clouds.

The red bean tree is very rare in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially the millennium old tree. GUSHAN red bean has a characteristic, that is, the particle is particularly large, which is incomparable to other red beans. Red bean tree is a three-level protected plant in China, and its seeds are very precious because it blooms and bears fruit only once a few years.

Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his poem Acacia: "red beans are born in the south, and spring brings forth a few branches. I hope you can pick more. This is the most Acacia. " Liu Dabai, a modern poet, once wrote the poem "double red beans" excitedly after he got the "double red beans" with one pod and two grains: "one bean, one person, one bag, two red beans, one side of heaven. Like the atrium, when the atrium, nestled up to the atrium hidden, Mo teach from hate long Therefore, red bean, also known as "Acacia", has been regarded as a keepsake of love since ancient times. Red beans are regarded as "auspicious and evil". People wear red beans, which are bright red and exquisite, on precious ornaments such as rings, bracelets and necklaces to pray for happiness.

Address: East of Shigu Town, Shifang City, Deyang City

Longitude: 104.143427

Latitude: 31.060831

Chinese PinYin : Hong Dou Cun