Laifang Town, Qingliu County, Sanming City, Fujian Province

Laifang town

Lai Fang Town, belonging to the Qing Liu County, Sanming City, Fujian, is located in the southeast of Qing Liu County, with an area of 108.82 square kilometers, registered residence of 10370 people (2018), and has 8 Village Committees (October 2019).

Laifang town is the main grain producing area and the key town of flue-cured tobacco planting in Qingliu County. Laifang peanut is a national geographical indication of agricultural products. In 2018, there were 12 industrial enterprises in Laifang Town, including 6 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size and 18 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Historical evolution

Tang Dynasty belongs to the North regiment of Tingzhou Prefecture.

In Song Dynasty, it belonged to Luocun group of zhegui township.

Ming and Qing dynasties belong to Luo village.

In 1950, it was called Laifang township.

In 2016, the township was replaced by Laifang town. Ceremony of removing villages and establishing towns in Laifang

administrative division

As of October 2019, Laifang town has eight village committees: Guanfang village committee, Zhaixia village committee, Chenjia village committee, Lai'an village committee, Laiwu village committee, Nanshan village committee, Dongshan village committee and Yaojia village committee.

geographical environment

Location context

Laifang town is located in the southeast of Qingliu County, adjacent to shawu Township and Tianyuan Township in the north, Lingdi town in the west, Li Township in the South and Luofang Township in Yong'an City in the East. It is 56 kilometers away from Qingliu County, covering an area of 108.82 square kilometers.

terrain

Laifang town is surrounded by mountains, with a duck egg shaped basin in the middle. Qipanshan, the highest mountain in the county, is 1705.7 meters above sea level. The main mountain peaks are 1438 meters of Gaoling Tianbao mountain, 1150 meters of lukengjiao, 1369 meters of douziban, etc.

climate

The annual frost free period in Laifang town is about 300 days, the annual average temperature is 18.6 ℃, and the annual rainfall is 1769 mm.

hydrology

There is only one stream winding through the village committees of Guanfang, Chenjia, Lai'an, Laiwu, Nanshan and Dongshan. The major water conservancy projects include yangkeng reservoir (with water storage of 5.95 million cubic meters), Yaojia reservoir (with water storage of 150000 cubic meters) and Jinjishan reservoir (with water storage of 105000 cubic meters), with 8160 mu of irrigated farmland. Qinyuan reservoir, the largest reservoir in Qingliu County, started construction in 1975. It is located in Qinyuan village, with a storage capacity of 12.2 million cubic meters. It can irrigate more than 19700 mu of cultivated land in Laifang, Lijia, Lingdi and Dengjia towns.

natural resources

Laifang town has 14451 mu of cultivated land and 134000 mu of mountain forest. The territory's geological and mineral resources mainly contain limestone, quartz sand, andalusite, iron ore, copper and so on.

population

In 2017, the resident population of Laifang town was 8768.

In 2018, Lai Fang town had 10370 registered residence population.

Economics

Laifang town is the main grain producing area and the key town of flue-cured tobacco planting in Qingliu County. Its main agricultural products include high-quality rice, red peanut, mountain watermelon, small garlic, alpine tea, tea seed oil, cherry blossom, etc. According to the data in 2018, Laifang town has initially formed seven characteristic agricultural industries with an annual output of 11000 mu of tea, 9000 mu of Camellia oleifera, 8500 mu of seedlings and flowers, 5000 mu of peanuts, 5000 mu of flue-cured tobacco, 15 million jin of eggs and 1000 tons of eel.

Laifang town has built an agricultural products processing park for new industries.

The eco-tourism industry of Laifang town has formed a one-day tour route of "thousand mu cherry garden - ten thousand mu Tea Expo Garden - Laifang ancient dwellings", and successfully held two cherry culture tourism festivals.

In 2018, there were 12 industrial enterprises in Laifang Town, including 6 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size and 18 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Transportation

Lai Fang town is located 40 kilometers away from Liancheng County * Guan Shan airport and EMU station, 40 km to the North Yongning expressway, 20 km to the West Yangpu station, and 1 hours to the east of Yongan expressway.

History and culture

In 2007, Laifang township was rated as a provincial historical and cultural Township by Fujian provincial government; in 2008, Laifang village was rated as a Chinese historical and cultural village by the Ministry of housing and urban rural development and the Bureau of cultural relics. The Hakka customs such as lion dragon club, Laifang martial arts, pendulum five directions, walking ancient things, and folk arts such as traditional lantern, horse lantern, dragon lantern have been well continued in this area. The rich historical and cultural relics and simple folk landscape are fresh specimens to study the development, inheritance, evolution and evolution of Hakka culture in Northwest Fujian. The Lai family in Laifang is a famous Hakka Family in Western Fujian. It is known as the hometown of "two Jinshi in one family, five Juren in one house" and "worship ancestors in eighteen blue clothes".

Laifang town has an ancient street area of about 150000 square meters. Three ancient streets, nine ancient roadways, schools, shops, docks, xitouping and ancestral temples are all distributed here, with complete street structure and water system. In 2013, Lai'an village was rated as one of the first batch of Chinese traditional villages by the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development and the Ministry of culture. In the same year, 10 ancient buildings, including Yingxun, Mujing, Laiqing, hanlindi, Tangdi Jingxiu, caiyinggeng, Youxu, Ma ancestral hall, Lai ancestral hall and Shangguan ancestral hall, were listed as provincial cultural relics protection units by Fujian Provincial People's government.

Laifang town

famous scenery

Dafeng Mountain Forest Park

Dafeng mountain forest park is a provincial forest park, covering an area of 2681 hectares. It has its own advantages in peak, cliff, ridge, terrace, stone and cave. Spring, pool, waterfall, stream, stream and lake have their own styles. It is rich in animal and plant resources. It is a famous plant kingdom and animal world. Dafeng mountain Qipan peak is 1706 meters above sea level, the highest peak in Qingliu County. Dafeng mountain is not only an attractive tourist attraction, but also a famous "holy mountain of Hakka and Taoism". It is said that Ouyang immortal emerged here. In the Song Dynasty, shunzhen Taoist temple was built to worship Ouyang immortal. Every year, it attracted tens of thousands of Hakka believers in Western Fujian to mount a mountain for pilgrimage, becoming a place for people to worship Taoism.

Laifang ancient dwellings

Laifang ancient dwellings are located in Laiwu village and Laian village. The village has more than 40 ancient dwellings built in Ming and Qing Dynasties, scattered in the deep mountains, known as the "living fossil" of village architecture. The original layout of the whole village remains intact, continuing the layout of Zhenwu street, loufangxia street and zhenanmen street, with many lanes and alleys as branches. Along these alleys and alleys, there are more than 40 ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, including "ancestral hall", "caiyinggeng", "hanlindi", "Laiqing", "Yingxun", "Mujing" and "Tangdi Jingxiu" Folk houses, covering an area of nearly 25000 square meters, are represented by Lai's ancestral temple, caiyinggeng, hanlindi and dafudi.

Lai Fang Ma ancestral hall

Located in Nanshan village of Laifang Town, Laifang Mahalanobis ancestral hall is a ancestral hall built in the middle of Ming Dynasty. It worships Ma FaLong, the first ancestor of Fujian Mahalanobis. According to textual research, Ma Yingjiu, the former leader of Taiwan, is the 32nd generation descendant of Ma FaLong. His ancestors lived in Nanshan for five generations and then moved to Hengyang, Hunan Province. Matsu ancestral hall in Nanshan of Laifang has been approved by Fujian Provincial People's government as a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit and the seventh batch of provincial-level key cultural relic protection units. Nanshan Ma ancestral hall is surrounded by the world's first ancient Zhangwang, Sun Moon Lake, ancient stage, Jiulong temple and other attractions.

Yaojia cherry forest in Laifang town

Yaojia cherry planting base in Laifang town covers an area of more than 700 mu, integrating cherry cultivation, planting, leisure and tourism, and rural tourism development. There are 30000 cherry trees planted in the base, including pink beauty, yangmingshanying, Dadao cherry, bazhongying, peony cherry and so on. With cherry blossoms as the main line, we use cherry blossoms to connect Nanshan village and township, and decorate the ancient folk houses and Nanshan Mahalanobis ancestral hall, so as to build a cherry blossom town in Fujian Province with Hakka culture brand and ancient folk houses.

Dafeng Mountain Ecotourism Area

Dafeng Mountain Ecotourism Area is an undeveloped pure natural ecotourism area with a mid subtropical monsoon climate, with a maximum altitude of 1705 meters. It has the key protected precious plants in Fujian Province, such as Tsuga longibracteata, Fagaceae, Fujian cherry blossom, Cyclobalanopsis glauca, etc., as well as the national protected wild animals and plants, such as Phoebe bournei, camphor tree, white necked long tailed pheasant. Tiger frog, Sumen antelope, big civet, etc. There are more than 20 scenic spots in the mountain, such as turtle dialogue, hidden dragon and crouching tiger, reclining Buddha, qililin, Guantai, wangri peak, Qipan peak, LanNiu stone, Tudi temple and Yingke pine. Shunzhen Taoist temple was built in the Song Dynasty, in which emperor Xiaozong was granted the title of "Tongtian Miaoying Ouyang Zhenjun" and other Taoist idols.

Local specialties

Laifang peanut, a special product of Qingliu County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, is a national geographical indication of agricultural products.

Honorary title

Laifang town was awarded the title of "rural tourism and Leisure Town in Fujian Province" by Fujian Provincial Tourism Administration, Laiwu village was selected as the tourism characteristic village of Sanming City, Nanshan village was awarded the title of "the most beautiful and livable village demonstration" by the Ministry of housing and urban rural development of the people's Republic of China, and "the most beautiful leisure village in Fujian Province" by Fujian Provincial Department of agriculture. Yaojia cherry planting base in Laifang town was awarded the title of "excellent cherry appreciation base of China's eco-tourism" by CCTV6.

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