Mengusi Town, Fang County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Mengusi town

Mengusi town is under the jurisdiction of Fangxian County. It is located in the southwest of Fangxian County, 34 kilometers away from the county. The gate is adjacent to Hualong in the East, Zhongba in the west, yangchashan forest farm in the South and yaohuai and Zhushan Shenhe townships in the north. It covers an area of 520 square kilometers with an average altitude of 550 meters. It is a big agricultural town with two mountains, which was merged by Yuanmen ancient town and Qinkou Township in 2002. The town governs 19 villages with 24105 people (in 2017). The existing cultivated land area is 37138 mu, including 10252 mu of paddy field and 480000 mu of mountain forest. In 2007, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town was 190 million yuan, the per capita net income of farmers was 2575 yuan, and the fiscal revenue was 2.2 million yuan.

Urban evolution

Mengu district (12 districts) was established in 1949, Mengu commune was established in 1958, Mengu district was restored in 1961, Mengu commune was established in 1975, and mengusi town was established in 1984. Located in the west of the county, 33 kilometers away from the county. It covers an area of 306 square kilometers and has a population of 22000. Che (Jiawan) Zhong (BA) highway passes through the territory from east to west. It has jurisdiction over menggushi, guizigou, hujiajie, Tongmugou, caochiya, Shuigou, shiziyan, wanjiayang, Xiejiawan, yejiahe, dayashan, hongyuhe, moshigou, Daping, shilinggou, Pengjiawan, xiangjiahe, Daliushu, dayagou, huiziying, xianjiaping, Xianshuihe, qiuquangou, Kuiyu River, shilonggou, crystal temple, Donghe, xiangjiajie, zhoujiajie and Ganxi There are 37 village committees in Cangkou, chuanshandian, yangyugou, cangfomiao, cangkouhe, Leyuan, Hexin and cangyu.

Administrative division

Affiliated to Fang County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, the town government is stationed in Mengu temple, with a population of 24105 (2017) and an area of 520 square kilometers (2017). It has jurisdiction over 19 village committees: mengusi, caochiya, Shiya, Majia, sifangdong, shanshuwan, juyuhe, yueriwan, hujiajie, shiziyan, xiangjiahe, Qinkou, yejiahe, huiziying, gaotanghe, MALIANG, Donghe, Hongxing and cangyuhe.

natural resources

The mountain farm of the town is open, and there are many mountain forests. The wild animals are black bear, wild boar, leopard, muntjac, Swertia, antelope mane, etc. Agriculture to wheat, rice, corn, potatoes, oil based cultivation. The main cash crops are lacquer, tung oil, agaric, mushroom, Coptis, Codonopsis, angelica, Panax notoginseng and Niuxi.

Urban construction

Around the development strategy of "strengthening the town with industry, mining, water and electricity, enriching the people with forest, livestock, fungi and tobacco", the town Party committee and government vigorously develop six pillar industries. By 2008, the town has 2 iron mines, 22 power stations, 2 million bags of edible fungi, 3000 mu of tobacco leaves, 61000 goats and 20000 mu of fruit forest.

Human history

origin

Mengusi town has a long history. In the Qin King's village, general Bai Qi of the Qin Dynasty set up camp here. Wangfoshan was the first place where the great master of Zhenwu was built. Guizigou was the place where Xue Kui was born when Xue Gang rebelled against the Tang Dynasty. Honglian cave was the place where Wang Conger of the Bailian sect stationed troops. In those years, the Red Army, the New Fourth Army and the Central Plains military region fought with the enemy in caochi, Mengu, Qinkou and Shiya villages in mengusi town It's a typical old revolutionary base area. the ancient temple town has beautiful mountains and rivers, beautiful scenery and rich products. There are dangshen, Gastrodia elata, chuanxiong, Danshen and other precious Chinese medicinal materials, mushrooms, black fungus and other local products, bears, leopards, monkeys, scraped chicken and other rare animals, which can be called the hometown of rich products. The folk culture of mengusi town is profound, and folk songs, folk stories, folk customs, folk songs, proverbs, Xiehouyu and other folk traditional culture are ancient and beautiful. It was awarded the title of "hometown of folk songs" of the whole city. At the same time, since 2006, it has been awarded the titles of "civilized township", "safe township", "Garden Township", "health township" and "top ten township" for power facilities protection. Mengusi Town, the hometown of folk songs. In mengusi Town, Fangxian County, the local people call mengusi the "mengusi", which has its origin. The name "Mengu" originated from Yuan Dynasty. It is said that in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1260), there was a Mongolian named suoer Zhijin who was an official here. He was honest and upright, hardworking and loving the people. After he took office, he reduced rent and interest, reduced exorbitant taxes and levies, and gave corvee to soldiers, which won the love and support of the people. Once, one of his yamen servants, a man named solchi, fell in love with Wang Chunhua, the daughter of an old farmer. She was as beautiful as a flower, and she was very smart. He molested the woman in every way, but she didn't follow him. Solchi had a vicious plan to slander Wang Laohan, abuse the government, incite the local people to revolt, bind him to the local government, and beat him in every way. Solchi secretly sent someone to tell Wang Chunhua that as long as she agreed to marry her, she would let her father go. Knowing that her father had been wronged because of her, Wang Chunhua complained to suoer Zhijin. Suo'er only took over the charge and summoned solchi. After interrogation, what Wang Chunhua said was true, so he beat solchi forty times and drove him out of the Yamen.

celebrity

Suoer Zhijin is a Mongolian. Because he is honest and upright, he won the hearts of the people. After his death, the people built a temple for him in memory of him. There are statues of him in the temple. "Mongolian Temple" hence its name. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid suspicion, "Mongolian Temple" was renamed "Menggu Temple".

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