Guanchao Town, Yushui District, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province

Guanchao town

Guanchao town is located in the northwest of Yushui District, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province. It borders Xiacun town in the northeast, urban area in the southeast, Ouli town in the northwest, Fenyi County in the West and Jieshui town in the south. The market town is only 10 kilometers away from the city. The total area of the town is 76.68 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 11 administrative villages, 126 village groups, 20725 people (2017), and the per capita net income of farmers is 10800 yuan. The transportation is convenient and the road network is developed. Wuji expressway, Shanghai Kunming Expressway and Hangzhou south high speed railway cross each other. The town to develop ecological agriculture, known as "Xinyu garden.". Guanchao town is rich in people's cultural life, and is famous for folk musical instruments, cart lights, dragon dance and other popular culture.

Historical evolution

It is named after guanchaowei. Guanchao was originally named stork nest. Stork is a kind of water bird. It is named because it is low-lying, surrounded by mountains and forming a basin in the middle, like a nest. It is called Guanchao for short. On the eve of liberation, it belonged to Guanchao Township, Guanchao District, and had jurisdiction over 14 Baobao. At the beginning of liberation, it was divided into two districts and seven townships. In 1956, it had jurisdiction over 14 senior societies, including Liaoyuan, Nanbu and Gaotian in Ouli Township, and Shangyi in Huangxi. Guanchao commune was established in 1958, and Hupi brigade returned to Guanchao commune in 1980. The township was changed in 1983 and the town in 1995. In 1997, it covers an area of 90 square kilometers and has a population of 25000. It has jurisdiction over 11 administrative villages, namely Guanchao, Shetou, Maoshan, Shangfen, Yangjia, Yangtan, Gongqing, Jingqiao, Nanbu, Shangyi and Hanquan. The town government is located in Maoshan village, 24 kilometers away from Xiannu Lake Management Committee.

geographical position

Guanchao town is located in the west of central Jiangxi Province, the east of Xinyu City, the middle and lower reaches of Yuanhe River, where Xinyu City is located. It is bounded by Zhangshu and Xingan in the East, Xiajiang and Ji'an in the south, Fenyi and xiannvhu administrative areas in the west, Shanggao and Gaoan in the north, and 160km away from Nanchang, the provincial capital. It spans 27 ° 50 'n and 114 ° 58' E. Guanchao Town, located in the west of Yushui District, has jurisdiction over 11 administrative villages including Guanchao, Shetou, Maoshan, Shangfen, Hanquan, Shangyi, Nanbu, Jingqiao, Gongqing, Yangjia and Yangtan. The town government is stationed in Guanchao. The territory is hilly, high in the southwest and inclined to the East. Yangtiangang around the southeast, there is a mountain overflow, named Jizha, kongmu river across the town. The new Europe highway crosses the border.

Economic overview

Guanchao town is a rice and cotton planting area. With the acceleration of the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure, two new agricultural bases have sprung up: one is Hupi grape planting base, with a planting area of more than 1000 mu, which is the largest vineyard in the city. The main varieties are super seedless, Heimi, Switzerland, etc. the fruit matures from July to September. The ripe fruit is sweet, colorful and big. It can supply 2 million kg of high-quality grapes to the market every year. The second is the pollution-free vegetable base in the harbor. Covering an area of 500 mu, it is rich in early bitter gourd, early eggplant, late autumn pepper, zucchini, tomato, cucumber, etc., which are mainly sold to the major farmers' markets in the urban area. The Guanchao forest farm at the foot of Yangtiangang is the key tourism development zone of the town. It covers an area of 3471.5 mu, with luxuriant trees, evergreen all year round and continuous springs. It is an ideal resort for leisure and entertainment. Guanchao town officially started the development of tourism in 2001, and has built a "fishing villa". Every weekend, there is an endless stream of fishermen. Other scenic spots to be developed are: the tomb of Zhang Gu, Zuo Shaoqing, Dali temple, zhuangu Tuli, the tomb site of Taoist Huang Gong, and the entrance hall of Zhang Junhai's official hall. Among them, the tomb of Zhang Gu, Zuo Shaoqing of Dali temple, is one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in the city.

rural construction

In the new rural construction, Guanchao town always takes the "20 words" policy as the overall goal, according to the principle of "active guidance, multi-party participation, planning first, highlighting characteristics", fully respects the wishes of the masses, based on the current situation, with a long-term view, solidly promotes the new rural construction, and achieves practical results. There are 14 new rural construction demonstration villages in Guanchao Town, including 5 at provincial level, 4 at municipal level and 5 enterprises. The town has established the working idea of "overall promotion, focusing on development", put the work of new rural construction center on "development of production", and required each demonstration village to vigorously develop "one village, one product" in combination with local reality. Township and village level cadres went deep into the grass-roots level, went deep into the demonstration villages, conducted consultation and research with the local people, formulated feasible plans, and established the development direction of "one village, one product" for each demonstration village. Shanxia village of Shetou village committee has rich soil and abundant water resources. Local farmers have rich experience in vegetable cultivation and high enthusiasm. Therefore, vegetables are regarded as the main products of the village and strive to build it into a vegetable production base of Guanchao town. Yangtan village has many fish ponds and rich water quality, which has the natural advantage of fish culture. The village takes fishery as the future development direction. Guanchao group 1 and group 2 are located in the downtown market town and are close to the city Relying on the new Europe highway, the transportation is convenient and the individual transportation is prosperous. The village aims to develop and expand the transportation industry. Other demonstration villages have established "one village, one product" according to local conditions. For example, the off-season vegetables from Shetou, the grapes from Shanzai of Shangfen village committee, and the rice and sugar from fan's family of Gongqing village committee all have their own characteristics, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger.

Climatic characteristics

Guanchao town is rich in natural resources. Yushui district has a subtropical humid climate with four distinct seasons, mild climate, sufficient sunshine, abundant rainfall, long frost free period, short severe winter, fertile land and nearly 50% forest coverage. Yushui district has a mild climate, with an annual average temperature of 17.7 ℃. July is the hottest period of the whole year, with a monthly average temperature of 29.4 ℃ and an extreme maximum temperature of 40.0 ℃. January is the coldest period of the whole year, with the monthly average temperature of 5.4 ℃ and the extreme minimum temperature of - 7.2 ℃. It can be seen that the daily and annual variation of temperature has a certain rule, that is, the highest value appears between 14:00 and 15:00, and the lowest value appears before and after sunrise. The highest value appears in summer and the lowest value appears in winter.

Local Literature

From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of celebrities in Guanchao town of Xinyu. Apart from their official career and scientific research, they left a rich cultural heritage. For example, Wang qinruo, who was an official to Tongping Zhangshi and a secret envoy, led the compilation of "CE Fu Yuan GUI" (1000 volumes) in 1013, which is of great value in collecting and collating the historical records before Song Dynasty. The famous historian "sanliu" (Liu Chang, Liu fenwen and Liu Fengshi) has written many works. Liu Chang is knowledgeable and proficient in astronomy and geography; Liu Fen is knowledgeable and able to write articles, helping Sima Guangxiu with Zizhitongjian, a full-time Han history; Liu Fengshi is proficient in Hanshu, and has written Hanshu annotation, etc. However, the writer "three Confucius" (Kong Wenzhong, Kong Wuzhong and Kong pingzhong) started Jiangxi with his articles. Huang Tingjian said that he and Su Shi and Su Zhe "two walls of the Soviet Union, three Confucius divide the tripod". In Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Xinyu's poetry and prose creation was more prosperous. Fu ruojin of the Yuan Dynasty was sent to Annan (today's Vietnam) and later served as a professor in Guangzhou. He wrote Fu Yu Li's poetry anthology, Fu Yu Lou's poetry anthology and the origin and development of poetry. His poetry origin and development is quite original and praised by later generations. Liang Yin, a famous scholar, studied hard and learned five classics. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty recruited a famous Confucian scholar to compile rites and music. He applied at the age of 60. After the completion of the book, he did not want to be an official. He returned to his hometown and settled down in Shimen mountain. He lectured and taught classics and wrote books, mainly including the book of rites, the textual research and annotation of Zhou rites, the book of changes, the book of shiyanyi, the book of shimenji, etc 》The Ministry of economy. During this period, the famous poets were Zhang Maoyi, Li Feng, Xi Jiayan, Zhang Chun, Fu Han, Yan Rishu, Jian Qinwen, Jian Xiao and so on. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, there were more and more scholars. Yan Sisheng was the first scholar in Jiangxi provincial examination in the 59th year of Kangxi period (1720). He was the governor of Anhui Province and the governor of Shandong Province and Hubei Province in the next year. His representative work is the collection of Chu Meng Shan Fang essays. After entering the Republic of China, a group of young scholars, such as Zhao Yi, Zhang Yi, Li Weilian and so on, began to show their talents. They were strict in culture and advanced in science and technology. Zhao Hui, the head of Yingzhou academy, created poems with his disciples. It has a certain local influence. After Zhao Hui's death, the disciples compiled more than ten volumes of Zhao he Chao's manuscript.

Folk Art

Through the collection and survey of Folk Lantern Dance in Guanchao Town, it is found that there are dozens of different styles of lantern dance, and the main ones preserved and handed down today are phoenix dance, lion dance, cart lamp, etc. At the end of Qing Dynasty, there was a saying that "the lion of Zhang family, the phoenix of ten thousand families, the flower drum of market, the Lantern Festival Lantern". Lantern Dance Art: Phoenix Dance is a Folk Lantern Dance handed down by the family of Wan in the village of banduishang, Chengbei street. It was originally a palace lantern dance. It is said that when the Jinshi, Hanlin academy editor and military department of Ming Dynasty sent Wan Faxiang back to his hometown to visit his relatives, they brought the whole set of people (dance, band, props) of the dance back to the village for demonstration performance and gave it to Wanjia young people. Because Wan Faxiang was from Wanjia village, "phoenix dance" is also called "wanjiafeng". The lion dance is the ancestral lantern dance of the surname Zhang in Guanchao town. It has a long history and has a great influence among the people. Lion dance is composed of yellow and green lions and performed by four people. It is very difficult to spit and receive the ball. The dance has a history of 400 years, and it is still a popular folk cultural and entertainment activity during the Spring Festival. Because this form of lantern dance is the only biography of Zhang family, it is also called "Zhang family dance". Pushcart lamp is one of the popular lantern programs in Guanchao town. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, there was a lantern festival in Guanchao ancient town, where all kinds of lanterns were gathered for mutual performances. The girls from the big families in the town broke the rules and went out to watch the lanterns. Surrounded by servants and maids, they came to watch the lanterns singing and dancing. When the floats (later "cart lamp") entered the lantern market, they immediately made a sensation. Since then, "cart lamp" has been handed down from generation to generation

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