Dayan Township, Shitai County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province

Da Yan Xiang

Dayan township is a township under the jurisdiction of Shitai County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province. The township government is located in Yongfu, 117 ° 29 ′ E and 30 ° 09 ′ n, 7 km southeast of the county. Renli in the northwest, seven capitals in the northeast, anling in Qimen County in the southeast, Xianyu in the southwest. Dayan Township governs 11 administrative villages, including chentian village, Xiaoshan village, Xinghuo village, new countryside, Xinban village, Yongfu village, Lianhe village, Baishi Village, Liantong village, Siqing village and Xintang village. The highway from Ketian to Shitai County passes through the north of the territory along the North Bank of Gongxin river. There are highways from the township government to every village, and every village has electricity and telephone.

In 2017, the administrative area of Dayan township was 14400 hectares, with 6744 permanent residents.

Historical evolution

Dayan commune was established in 1961 and changed to Dayan Township in 1983. Dayan township is a cultural Township with a long history. This is the birthplace of Mulian opera, a living fossil of Chinese drama, and the place name of Da Yan is also derived from Da Yan Mulian opera. It is also the hometown of Wu Yingji, a famous writer in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty and a leader of anti Qing and restoration of Ming Dynasty; Huansha village in Guniujiang experimental area has 13 temples in ancient times, known as "Jiuli thirteen nunnery"; among them, the famous Shanqing temple, Xifeng Temple, Baiyun nunnery and other religious sites still exist today. Yanjia ancient village is the residence of the descendants of Yan Ziling, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is known as the "Millennium ancient village". The typical Huizhou residential buildings are well preserved. There are old mills, ancient ancestral halls and slogan walls with slogans from the Red Army's northward Anti Japanese War to the great leap forward and the cultural revolution. Yongfu village, where the township government is located, is also a very old village, with ancient ancestral halls and ancient ancestral halls Youfang, ancient dwellings, ancient huidao and ancient camphor trees are of great ornamental and research value. They have been featured in CCTV-7 search for the world and CCTV-4 Chinese civilization.

The origin of naming

The place name of Dayan township was created by Wu Yingji, a great Chinese writer and leader of the restoration society in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. At that time, Wu Yingji went home to visit his family. That night, when he was performing Mulian opera in his hometown, he went to watch it with great enthusiasm regardless of his fatigue. When Wu Yingji came to the theater, the villagers cheered and suggested that he write the name of the stage. Wu Yingji was very emotional and happily wrote down the words "Da Yan". After the death of Wu Yingji, people in his hometown took "Da Yan" as the local place name in memory of him, which has been used up to now.

Township Development

Dayan township is a mountainous Township with nine mountains, half water and half farmland. There is a small (2) reservoir with nine mountain ponds, with a total capacity of 360000 cubic meters. Before liberation, there were no roads, no communication facilities, almost isolated from the world, and the people lived in extreme poverty. After liberation, especially since the reform and opening up, earth shaking changes have taken place here. Every village has roads, telephones and schools. Township Health Center, each village has a medical room. There are cultural, radio and television stations; cinemas; television turntables. The construction of small cities and towns where the government is located has begun to take shape. Mountain residents have begun to move down. People's lives have been continuously improved. Basically, they have got rid of poverty and started to move towards a well-off life.

Natural resources

The south end of Dayan township is the ancient Niujiang nature reserve, which belongs to the alpine zone. Gongxin River crosses the northern part of the territory from west to East, and there are three tributaries flowing into it from south to North in the form of "Sichuan"; Xiaoshan reservoir of small (II) type has a rainfall collection area of 213 hectares and a total reservoir capacity of 270000 cubic meters. Agriculture is mainly tea and rice, followed by sericulture, oil and Chinese herbal medicine, and forestry is rich in bamboo and wood resources. Daying township is composed of low and medium mountain areas and some high mountain areas. The low mountain areas are mostly small slopes and hills. The high mountain areas are mainly the original forest, the original secondary forest and the strange peak and strange stone exposed in the scenic area of Guniujiang scenic area. It is a traditional mixed area of grain, forest, tea and other economic crops. Its natural conditions such as water, soil, light and heat are very suitable for the development of ecological agriculture and eco-tourism. Dayan is rich in various kinds of products, with an annual timber cutting volume of 2000 cubic meters and a bamboo cutting volume of 500000. In the vast forest sea, there are abundant forest by-products. There are edible fungi and forest vegetables such as mushroom, fungus, Dictyophora and Toona sinensis, Chinese herbal medicines such as Huanglian, qiyeyihua and Qishe, beverages such as black tea, wild tea, Kudingcha and gynostemma pentaphyllum, dried and fresh fruits such as kiwifruit, hickory, jujube, Schisandra chinensis, mountain grape, hawthorn, Torreya grandis and sanyeshe, and wild vegetables such as lily, fern, Osmunda japonica, bitter vegetable and horse chestnut Orchid dishes, Qingming dishes, etc. These can be developed as characteristic tourism products.

Characteristic economy

Dayan Township vigorously develops tourism economy and tea economy, so as to promote the all-round development of Dayan township economy. This is the economic development direction of Dayan township's financial revenue increase and farmers' income increase. Since the 1990s, Dayan township has seized the opportunity of "two mountains and one lake" tourism development in Anhui Province. Relying on the excellent ecological environment and rich tourism resources of Dayan Township, taking the construction of scenic spots as the guide, it has extended the industrial chain, vigorously developed rural tourism with "farmhouse entertainment" as the main part, promoted the development of rural economy and increased farmers' income. In 2005, Dayan Township received 148000 tourists, and the comprehensive income of rural tourism was 17.8 million yuan, accounting for 34.3% of the GDP of Dayan township. In the development of tourism economy, we should pay more attention to the construction of scenic spots, expand external publicity, improve the popularity of Guniujiang, and do a good job in the construction of life service facilities to improve the reception capacity. In the development of tea economy, we should focus on industrial management, create the famous brand of "guniujiangye tea", push the products into the market and improve the market competitiveness. Dayan township has a good ecological environment and rich natural resources of tea, wood and bamboo. Guniujiang National Nature Reserve is located in the territory, with an area of more than 100000 Mu and a main peak height of 1727 meters. Everything here is in the original state, with real mountains, real water and magical landscape. It is a wonderful place for modern people to appreciate and return to nature. Some areas have been developed and opened as ecotourism scenic spots, and the tourism highway leading to Guniujiang has been completed and opened to traffic. The protection and development of Guniujiang will enter a new development period.

tourist resources

Li Bai, the great poet, spent three years and five times traveling to the performance, and wrote more than 40 poems. The Qiupu River, known as the "river of poetry", runs across the whole territory. Along the river, there are a large number of ancient dwellings, ancestral temples, ancient trees, ancient villages, celebrity sites and relics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Guniujiang, a National Nature Reserve mainly for forest ecology and wildlife protection, is located in Dayan Township, with more than 50000 mu of virgin forest Standing upright, it is rich in wild animal and plant resources, with beautiful natural landscapes such as strange pines, strange rocks, sea of clouds, waterfalls and Buddha light. Guniujiang (part) is a national nature reserve. The tourist road leading to Guniujiang has been completed and opened to traffic, and some areas have been opened to the outside world as eco-tourism scenic spots.

Get honor

In June 2020, it was awarded the title of "the fifth civilized village in Anhui Province".

Chinese PinYin : An Hui Sheng Chi Zhou Shi Shi Tai Xian Da Yan Xiang