Tiancun Town, Ganxian District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Tiancun town

Tiancun Town, belonging to Ganxian District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the northeast of Ganxian district. The area is 222.21 square kilometers, and the registered residence is about 56 thousand and 800 people (2018). It has 1 residential committees and 32 Village Committees (2019).

Donghe opera has a history of more than 1400 years since Gong He De opened Tiancun in the Dali Period of Tang Dynasty. Folk heritage lantern craft, known as Hakka Town, fruit city, lantern Town, Buddhist holy land.

In 2018, there were 3 industrial enterprises in Tiancun Town, including 1 industrial enterprise above Designated Size and 17 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Historical evolution

In May 1930, the Soviet government of Ganxian county was formally established in Jiangkou. Early egret, Tiancun, Qingxi, Liangkou and other areas.

In October 1952, Tiancun district was added to govern Tiancun town.

In 1953, Tian Village was changed to township.

In 1958, the Soviet commune (later changed to Tiancun commune) was jointly established with Bailu and Baishi.

In 1962, it was divided into five communes: Bailu, Baishi, Tiancun, miaojian and pingkeng.

In 1965, Miao Qian, Ping Keng and Tian Cun were merged into Tian Cun commune.

In 1968, egret and Baishi were incorporated into Tiancun commune.

In 1972, egret and Baishi communes were restored.

In 1984, it was changed to Tiancun Township and Baishi township.

In 1988, Jiantian village.

administrative division

In 2001, Baishi township was assigned to Tian Village. Yuantian village has jurisdiction over Tian Village neighborhood committee and 23 administrative villages including Xiadu, Jianxin, Hongwei, Lianqun, cunling, Shangqi, Zhongqi, sheda, Yueping, Genshan, pingkeng, longxia, Liantang, Dongshan, Fangxi, Lanfen, Yangmei, pingnei, HUTANG, xiekeng, Miaoqian, Wupi and Fuzhu. The town government is stationed in tiancunwei. Baishi township has jurisdiction over Baishi, Xikeng and Limu There are 9 administrative villages, namely, Xiaheng, tianmian, Xiabaishi, ditou, Tangji and Shangping.

In 2019, Tiancun town has one neighborhood committee and 32 Village Committees (Tiancun neighborhood committee, Xiadu Village Committee, Lianqun village committee, Jianxin village committee, Hongwei village committee, xiekeng village committee, cunling village committee, Shangqi village committee, Zhongqi village committee, sheda village committee, Lanfen village committee, Yueping village committee, Genshan Village Committee, pingkeng village committee, longxia village committee, Dongshan village committee, Lianfeng village committee) Tang village committee, Fangxi village committee, Yangmei village committee, pingnei village committee, HUTANG village committee, Miaoqian village committee, Wupi village committee, Fuzhu village committee, Baishi Village Committee, Xiabaishi village committee, Xikeng village committee, Limu village committee, Xiaheng village committee, tianmian village committee, ditou village committee, Tangji village committee, Shangping village committee). Town government in Tiancun neighborhood committee.

geographical environment

Location context

Tiancun town is located in the northeast of Ganxian District, adjacent to Wan'an county and Xingguo County, 15 kilometers away from national highway 323, covering an area of 222.21 square kilometers.

terrain

Tiancun town is a hilly and mountainous area.

natural resources

Tiancun town has 34000 mu of arable land and 325000 mu of mountainous land. The underground resources mainly include tungsten, rare earth and fluorescene.

population

In 2018, 56844 people registered residence in Tian Village.

Economics

The economy of Tiancun town is dominated by agriculture, mainly planting rice, and also planting navel orange, Stevia rebaudiana, honey pear, flue-cured tobacco, etc. Pig breeding and aquaculture are the main industries.

social undertakings

In December 2019, Tiancun town has 2 middle schools, 11 primary schools and 2 teaching sites (Tiancun middle school in Ganxian District of Ganzhou City, Baishi middle school in Ganxian District of Ganzhou City, Tiancun Central Primary School in Ganxian District of Ganzhou City, cunling primary school in Tiancun Town, Shangqi primary school in Tiancun Town, Zhongqi teaching site in Tiancun Town, community primary and secondary schools in Tiancun Town, Yangmei primary school in Tiancun Town, Lanfen primary school in Tiancun town and Genshan primary school in Tiancun town) Longxia primary school in Tiancun Town, Miaoqian primary school in Tiancun Town, Wupi primary school in Tiancun Town, Fuzhu teaching point in Tiancun Town, Niujiao teaching point in Tiancun town).

History and culture

overview

In Tiancun Town, there are Qizhen temple, an ancient temple in Han Dynasty, Baohua temple, a famous temple taught by Zen master Mazu, and Tiancun lantern with a history of more than 1300 years.

dialect

The residents of Tiancun town use Hakka dialect in xinpian.

Tiancun lantern

Tiancun lantern has a long history and many varieties. It has been introduced for more than 1300 years since the Tang Dynasty. The first ones were colorful lanterns, palace lanterns and horse lanterns. Later, it gradually developed into 25 varieties, such as flower basket lanterns, story lanterns of scenic figures, Baogai lanterns, pailou lanterns, turtle pattern lanterns, Qilin lanterns, lion lanterns, elephant lanterns, cloud lanterns, lotus lanterns and Jiahua lanterns.

Tiancun lantern integrates many folk arts, such as paper cutting, paper carving, color painting, embroidery, powder extrusion, etc. it is unique in shape, exquisite in production and exquisite in decoration, and can be called "one of the best in Jiangnan".

Donghe Opera

Donghe opera is an ancient local opera in Ganzhou. It originated from Tiancun, Bailu, Qingxi, Laotian and huhubu (now Xingguo County) in Ganxian county. It is named because its birthplace and main epidemic areas are in the area of egret and Tiancun in Ganxian County of Donghe, Ganzhou. Donghe opera is based on the high tune of Donghe area in Ganzhou. It gradually integrates Kunqu Opera, Yihuang opera, GUI opera, Anqing opera, Yiban opera, North South opera, Yangge opera and so on. It has developed into a relatively complete opera with high, Kun and Tan tunes. Because it was formed in the Gongshui Valley in the east of Ganzhou, it is also called Donghe opera. During the more than 100 years after Qianlong, it developed rapidly and spread widely in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Hunan. The main plays include the legend of Mulian, broken bridge and huazi Nong snake, which were all the rage for a time.

The stage voice of Donghe opera is based on Zhongzhou rhyme, mixed with Hakka Mandarin. Its tone is slightly opposite to Putonghua: vice versa, such as "neighborhood" is close to Putonghua's "liberation"; its "background" is close to Putonghua's "Beijing". Ugliness sometimes only uses local voice to make jokes. The singing of Ye Yin in Kunqiang opera is slightly close to Wu Yin.

Burning Wata

Burning the pagoda is a great wonder in Tiancun town of Ganxian county. It is said that the custom of burning the pagoda was related to the uprising against Yuanbing. At that time, Han people who were unwilling to give in made an appointment with each other to set fire to the top of the pagoda on the Mid Autumn Festival. Although the resistance was suppressed, the custom of burning the pagoda was handed down.

Baohua Temple

Baohua temple was founded in Tianbao period of Tang Dynasty. It was formerly known as Baohua temple in Xitang. It was called Baohua temple in Ming Dynasty. It is located in Gonggong mountain, Dongshan village, Tiancun Town, Ganxian County, about 8 kilometers away from tiancunxu town. In the past, it was the hermit Gong Liangqi's residence. It was a famous temple in the south of the Yangtze River at that time. There were ten treasures in the temple: Jade Pagoda, hundred year old fruit tree, thousand year old cypress, chumujing, thousand person pot, ten thousand person bed, gudingzhong, longquanjing, sifangzhu and inverted onion (pine). Jade Pagoda, also known as dabaoguang pagoda, is the name of the pro imperial pagoda of emperor Mu Zong of Tang Dynasty, and the book of rites, Quan Deyu Shudan. The height of the pagoda is 4.5 meters, and the width of the bottom is 2.99 meters. The body of the pagoda is carved with red and brown jade, carved with animal patterns, elegant and beautiful. It is known as "the first Pagoda in the south of the Yangtze River". After the death of master zhizang, Tang Xianzong posthumously named master zhizang as Zen master Dajue, and built the tower as dabaoguang. In 2006, dabaoguang pagoda, as an ancient building of Tang Dynasty, was listed as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

On October 17, 2009, the largest wood Maitreya Buddha statue in China sits in Baohua temple in Tiancun, Ganxian county. The statue weighs about 8 tons. It was carefully carved by Jiangsu sculptors for more than half a year from the ancient wood of Artemisia scoparia collected from the bottom of Hainan.

Former site of Soviet government in Ganxian County

The former site of Ganxian Soviet government (jinshidi) is located in the north of Tiancun Town, Ganxian District, facing south. It is of brick and wood structure, with a wide face, three bays, two entrances, three halls, one horizontal house, horse head wall, hard hilltop, archway style hanging column gatehouse, four columns, three rooms, three floors, grey carving geometry, landscape architecture, human objects, flower and bird patterns, etc. it is an architecture of the late Qing Dynasty. In the middle of March 1930, with the help of the second column of the sixth Red Army, the Ganxian industrial and agricultural Revolutionary Committee was established in "Jinshi Di" in tiancunwei north. In April of the same year, the Ganxian industrial and agricultural revolutionary committee moved from tiancunwei north to niulangang primary school in Jiangkou. On May 29 of the same year, the first Congress of workers, peasants and soldiers of Ganxian county was held in niulangang primary school, and the Soviet government of Ganxian county was established. Soon after, the Soviet government of Ganxian County moved back to Tiancun to work. The establishment of Ganxian Soviet government marked the formal formation of Ganxian Soviet area.

Specialty food

The local specialties of Tiancun town include Tiancun rice, Huangyuan rice fruit, bamboo and wood products, etc.

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