Dongshi Town, Zhijiang City, Yichang City, Hubei Province

Dongshi town

Dongshi town is subordinate to Zhijiang City, Hubei Province. It is one of the three central areas of medium-sized urban planning in Zhijiang City. It is the key area for the development of Zhijiang City. It is an important industrial town of Yichang City and a star town of Chutian in Hubei Province. Dongshi town is located in the West of Jianghan Plain, adjacent to the golden waterway of the Yangtze River in the South and close to Zhijiang City. It is one of the three central areas of the overall planning of Zhijiang City.

Dongshi town covers an area of 137 square kilometers and 64000 mu of arable land. It has jurisdiction over 24 administrative villages, 2 community neighborhood committees and 93 villager groups. The current population is 53262, including 14931 in urban areas and 38473 in rural areas.

Related introduction

Dongshi Town, Zhijiang City, Hubei Province, is a civilized ancient town with a history of 1700 years. It was named dongtanchao in 220 ad. during the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Yan, the general of Shu, was stationed here and changed to dongtankou. It was the hometown of Dong He, the general of Zhonglang in Shu Han Dynasty. Later, because of the gathering of merchants, it became Dongshi. Dongshi town is located 3 kilometers west of Zhijiang City, with superior location and convenient transportation.

Dongshi town is an important industrial town with a long history. In the past, it had a good historical foundation and conditions. From the Qing Dynasty to the 29th year of the Republic of China, there were more than 8000 residents and more than 300 shops. It was an important port and commercial port connecting Eastern Sichuan, Western Hubei and Jianghan Plain. Every autumn harvest, thousands of mules and horses were on the market, and 100 ships were loading and unloading goods, showing the prosperity of the market. In June 1940, Japanese planes invaded and bombed Dongshi, and Dongshi was desolate from then on.

Dongshi town is located in the west of Jianghan Plain, adjacent to the golden waterway of the Yangtze River in the south, and close to Zhijiang City. It is one of the three central areas of the overall planning of Zhijiang City. Dongshi town covers an area of 137 square kilometers, with a cultivated land area of 64000 Mu. It has jurisdiction over 24 administrative villages, 2 community neighborhood committees, and 93 villager groups. The current population is 53262, including 14931 in urban areas and 38473 in rural areas.

Dongshi town has a long history, profound culture, celebrities and heroes. According to historical records, it was originally named dongtanchao in 220 A.D. during the Three Kingdoms period, Shu changed the Wei court's garrison here to dongtankou. Later, due to "merchants gathered in Yicheng", it evolved into Dongshi, which has a history of more than 1800 years. There is a Neolithic site of xinmiaozi in the town. Shuifu temple, which was built in the Ming Dynasty as "the key cultural relic protection unit of Hubei Province", still has cultural relics from the Warring States period to the Eastern Jin Dynasty and even from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Dongshi town is located 50 kilometers away from Yichang, 30 kilometers away from the Three Gorges Airport, the new and old national highway 318, Hanyi Expressway and Hanyi high-speed railway run from east to west, and Jiaozhi railway runs through the town to the south. There are two ports for berthing 10000 ton ships.

Basic introduction

At the end of the year, the total population of Dongshi town was 53741, including 16003 urban residents and 37738 rural residents, accounting for 29.7% and 70.3% of the total population respectively; there were 26521 males and 27220 females, accounting for 49.3% and 50.7% of the total population respectively. 398 people were born, the birth rate was 7.20 ‰, 396 people died, the death rate was 7.16 ‰, and the natural population growth rate was 0.04 ‰. It covers an area of 145.4 square kilometers and 67000 mu of cultivated land. It has jurisdiction over 24 administrative villages, including Dongshi, yaojiagang, Hongzhi, Fuxing, Pinghu, Caodian, Jinlong, Taizhou, Shiping, Huangjin, xinzhouchang, Wuling, Caotai, Shuanghu, Peisheng, Guihua, shijiangdian village, shigangqiao, Shibaoshan, Majiachong, liangmeiyuan, gaoshigang, ganlinsi, sunzigou, yaojiagang and Zhouhu, and 2 community neighborhood committees,

Dongshi ancient town

Dong City, formerly known as dongtankou, has a history of more than 1800 years since ancient times when celebrities and merchants gathered in large numbers and gradually formed a commercial port.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were four streets in the market town. From the east to the west, there were three straight streets, which were Zhengjie, Hejie and Beijie. There was a cross street at the west end of Zhengjie. According to Zhijiang county annals of the fifth year of Tongzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1866), "the residents were dense, half in Yicheng, and merchants gathered all over the place." Today, the traditional residents, shops, workshops and historical sites of Ming and Qing Dynasties still exist in laozheng street of Dongshi.

Commercial stores

The ancient town of Dongshi is "half in the city of Yicheng, where merchants gather". It is also a military important place, a religious holy land, and an economic hub. After the Opium War, the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries also opened shop here, the town became an important commodity distribution place in Western Hubei. In the heyday of Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more than 300 famous brands in the market towns, and 1000 donkeys took to the streets to carry goods, with an annual turnover of more than 30 million yuan in cash.

The prosperity of logistics makes commerce and land and water transportation very busy, and also drives the development of handicraft workshops. Its main industries include grain processing, such as whole rice, oil pressing, bean pastry, soy sauce garden, etc.; cotton processing, such as ginning, marbling, spinning, weaving, dyeing, etc.; metal products processing, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, ice iron (i.e. white iron) casting, etc.; in addition, there are workshops for the production of straw weaving, incense burner, square bucket paper, brown hemp rope, etc There are 50 kinds and hundreds of products.

Shop list:

1. Songlanxin pastry sauce garden workshop. During the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, Cai Guangzhi, a native of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province, made tofu in Dongshi and developed pastry processing after setting up a soy sauce garden. In 1860, his son Cai Baolian created the brand "songlanxin", with more than 100 employees and more than 70 varieties of crispy food. After 1931, he took "Songlan" as the head office and developed three branches, including "Shengji", "Deji" and "Xinji". It is known as "Dongshi street is full of Songlan Zhai". Its "Songlan" brand white crisp candy and moon cakes are sold to Jiangkou, Shashi, Chongqing and other places, which are quite popular.

2. Xiangtai squeezing workshop. In 1895, he Liji set up the zhafang in Dongshi, and then transferred it to zhengheyi. In 1938, he transferred it to Li mingsan, and named it "Xiangtai zhafang". Cotton oil, vegetable oil and a small amount of sesame oil are mainly pressed. In 1940, the daily output of sesame oil reached a record of 300 Jin. At that time, there were 20 workers, 2 squeezing barrels, 1 mill mound, 5 buffaloes, 5 stone mills and 3 steaming and frying pans. The factory was in the east of Jitou in Dongshi City, and there was no trace. The store is at 2 laozheng street.

3. Jindaxing silver shop was one of the five silver shops in Dongshi until the 38th year of the Republic of China. It is mainly processed with supplied materials and sold as finished products, with varieties of earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces, women's accessories, etc.; 59 laozheng street.

4. In 1954, douzuo society rented out 200 square meters of its houses and set up douzuo group. There are 10 stone mills, 9 cattle and 4 sets of press racks.

5. Li Chuanxi copper shop, its business from the Republic of China in 1940 to liberation. Take her daughter as an apprentice, mainly to processing, also string Township sales. The main products are: tea tray, washbasin, cigarette holder, lifting ring, spoon, ladle, key, etc.; luoxinji house, next to raojiaxiang and Ma Yongfa. 36 laozheng street.

6. Luo Xinji house.

7. Xiecheng textile factory, according to Zhijiang county annals of the fifth year of Tongzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1866), "in the middle of the night, the sound of the loom and the rolling of the spinning wheel are heard, and more people from Jia than from Dongshi and Jiangkou buy flowers to enter Sichuan, which is called Chu cotton, like cloth.". Xiecheng textile factory was one of the three textile factories set up by Dong Shi in the fourteenth year of the Republic of China;

8. Liu Changxing's dyeing workshop had 33 dyeing VATS in the 28th year of the Republic of China, with an annual output value of more than 60000 yuan and 14000 pieces of blue gray cloth; 46 laozheng street.

9. Liu Bishan Tuifang, 190 laozheng street.

10. Shigaoxianpitou silk shop, 47 laozheng street.

11. Mobil, a foreign company, opened its business in 1907. It was jointly run by the Americans of Mobil, and purchased goods in US dollars. The Chinese operator is Zhang Xianyi, 80 laozheng street.

12. With Dayang or Dacheng, Zhang Yunsheng's business was prosperous. Only in the 22nd year of the Republic of China, he sold 160 tons of foreign (coal) oil at 80 laozheng street.

13. Asia Pacific, operated by Huang Xizhou (UK shares). In 1947, daosan inherited his father's business and opened a cloth shop. The brand created by daosan has certain competitiveness in the market; No. 100 laozheng street.

14. In the 36th year of the Republic of China, daosan inherited his father's business and established the brand of "changdefu". 129 laozheng street.

15. Da Maolian, Da Maoming flower line. Da Maolian, Da Maoming flower line. In the eighth year of the Republic of China, the circulation of goods had reached the scale of one thousand tons of cotton. Laozheng street is on the street.

16. Chunmaoyi, Chunmao and traditional Chinese medicine shops are set up on laozheng street by the surname Zhang.

17. "Tongshun" grocery store, laozheng street, opened by Li Tongshun.

18. Yan Baoliang rice shop, 184 old street.

19. Huang Xi Neng general store, 188 laozheng street.

20. Hong Changzhong company. Hongchangzhong City yuan Zhengzhong (word Zhichen) founded the brand at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were eight pawnshops in Dongshi Town, including bank, cloth shop, dye shop, trough shop, sugar shop, flower shop and Mobil kerosene shop. In Dongshi Town, there was a saying that "Hong" was half a street.

Ancient architecture street of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Dongshi town

Shuifu Temple

Located in Dongshi ancient town, Shuifu temple was built in Ming Dynasty. It was donated by 108 firms in Dongshi town to worship the water god boatman. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province. According to legend, the boatman assisted Zhu Yuanzhang to destroy Chen Youliang, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to build temples along the river for sacrifice. Dongshi Shuifu temple has the inscription "hometown of Zhonglang general Dong Youzai in charge of the army in the later Han Dynasty".

It has a history of more than 300 years

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