Wen'an Town, Zhijiang City, Yichang City, Hubei Province

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Wen'an town has a long history. According to Zhijiang county annals in the fifth year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, "Wen'an is said to be the name of Han zhaolie who was stationed here.". Wen'an town is located in the northeast of Zhijiang City, bordering Jingzhou and Dangyang, and on the west edge of Jianghan Plain. There are Hanyi Expressway and national highway 318 running through the East and West, and the first-class highway from Dangyang to Zhijiang City runs through the north and south. It is 15 kilometers away from Zhijiang City.

Wen'an town covers an area of 160 square kilometers (in 2017), with 23 administrative villages, 101 villager groups and one neighborhood committee. It has a total population of 43718 people (in 2017) and cultivated land area of 105000 mu.

Basic introduction

The name of Wen'an began in the Three Kingdoms. According to Zhijiang county annals in the fifth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, "Wen'an is said to be the name of Han zhaolie who was stationed here.". During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao fought with Liu Bei, who was defeated in Nanyang Xinye. His brother Guan Yu escorts his wife Gan and MI from Xinye, Nanyang to Wan'an temple. Every half a month, Guan Yu comes to say hello to them. In order to commemorate Guan Yu's loyalty, later generations rebuilt the temple and changed the name of Wan'an temple to Wen'an temple. Wen'an town is located in the northeast of Zhijiang City, bordering Jingzhou and Dangyang, on the west edge of Jianghan Plain, 15 kilometers away from the urban area of Zhijiang City. The town has a land area of 162 square kilometers and cultivated land area of 108000 mu. It has jurisdiction over 23 administrative villages, 1 neighborhood committee and 101 villager groups, with a total population of 46000. It has successively won many honors, such as national key towns, provincial civilized towns, provincial health towns, the most beautiful towns in Yichang City and Yichang characteristic industry Star towns. Guanmiaoshan village has been rated as national civilized village.

Wen'an town has profound cultural heritage and is the central area of guanmiaoshan type of Daxi Culture in primitive society. With distinctive industrial characteristics, it is the largest town of grain, oil and aquatic products production in Yichang City, with grain output exceeding 100 million jin for 26 consecutive years. With beautiful urban and rural environment, guanmiaoshan, tongxinqiao and other villages have been rated as national civilized villages and beautiful rural demonstration villages in Hubei Province.

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Wen'an town is located in the northeast of Zhijiang City, in the transition zone between Jianghan Plain and Western Hubei mountain area, and on the North Bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. There are Hanyi expressway, 318 National Road across the East and West, Dangyang to Zhijiang City secondary road through the north and south. With an area of 160 square kilometers (2017), it has jurisdiction over 23 administrative villages, 100 villager groups and 1 neighborhood committee, with a total population of 43718 (2017), cultivated land area of 100028 Mu and basic farmland protection rate of 86%. It is a major town of grain production, oil production and aquatic products production in Yichang City, with grain output exceeding 100 million catties for 16 consecutive years, and special products: grain, cotton, oil, pig, poultry, fish, melon and fruit

Wen'an town is located in the northeast of Zhijiang City, covering an area of 162 square kilometers. It governs fangjiafan village, wanshuiqiao village, longquantang village, guanmiaoshan village, zhengjiajing village, zhangjiaqiao village, qinjiashan village, Yangshan village, Shuanghu village, Gongjiaping village, Fengtai Village, Gexin village, Shuanghe village, yuanmatou village, tongxinqiao village, Tanhuasi village, Zhujiawan village, sigang village, WanDian village, daijiadian village There are 23 administrative villages, 100 villager groups and 1 neighborhood committee in Shilidian village, Gongqiao village and Guanlong village.

Historical evolution

Greeting has a long history. According to legend, three thousand years ago, there was a widow surnamed Zhu who lived in Guanmiao mountain (formerly known as "Hong'an Temple") and moved to build a small temple called "Wan'an Temple" because of frequent fires. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao fought with Liu Bei, who was defeated in Nanyang Xinye. Guan Yu, his brother-in-law, escorts his sister-in-law, Mrs. Gan and MI, from Xinye, Nanyang to Wan'an Temple via Caobu lake. Every half a month, Guan Yu comes to greet Mrs. Gan and MI. In order to commemorate Guan Yu's loyalty, later generations rebuilt the temple and changed the name of Wan'an temple to Wen'an temple.

geographical position

Wen'an town is located in the northeast of Zhijiang City, covering an area of 160 square kilometers (2017). It has 23 branches, namely Wen'an temple, fangjiafan, wanshuiqiao, longquantang, guanmiaoshan, zhengjiajing, zhangjiaqiao, qinjiashan, Yangshan, Shuanghu, Gongjiaping, Fengtai, Gexin, Shuanghe, yuandock, tongxinqiao, Tanhuasi, Zhujiawan, sigang, WanDian, daijiadian, Shilidian, Gongqiao and Guanlong Political village, 100 villager groups and 1 neighborhood committee

With a total population of 43718 people (in 2017), a cultivated area of 100028 Mu and a basic farmland protection rate of 86%, Yichang is a major town of grain production, oil production and aquatic products production, with grain output exceeding 100 million jin for 16 consecutive years.

Guanmiaoshan site

Guanmiaoshan site is located in guanmiaoshan village, Wen'an Town, 11.5km northeast of Zhijiang City. There is a Neolithic primitive village site, covering an area of more than 40000 square meters. The cultural accumulation is more than 1m thick. According to carbon-14 measurement, it is 5000-6000 years ago. Its cultural connotation has the typical characteristics of Daxi culture. Experts from the Institute of archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences named it "Guanmiao" of Daxi Culture Mountain type. Guanmiaoshan site has been declared as a key cultural relic protection unit by the people's Government of Hubei Province.

Guanmiaoshan site was discovered in 1977 when the water conservancy project was under construction. At that time, the Hubei team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the provincial and municipal cultural relics and Archaeology departments attached great importance and great interest to it. They immediately carried out the key excavation of the site. In the excavation of more than 2000 square meters, more than 5000 cultural relics were unearthed.

These cultural relics are roughly divided into two categories: one is stone production tools. Complete varieties, fine grinding. There are stone axes, stone axes, stone shovels, stone chisels, stone net pendants, etc., which are not only suitable for different production uses at that time, but also can be seen that the production mode of the ancestors of Guanmiao mountain has changed from collecting, fishing and hunting to planting and breeding. In particular, stone pestle, pottery dustpan and rice husk mixed in the soil for grain processing were unearthed, which further confirmed that the people of Guanmiao mountain at that time had planted a certain scale of Japonica rice; the other was pottery supplies, which was very rich. There are cauldrons, jars, urn and other storage tools; there are pottery dustpan, net pendant, spinning wheel and other tools; there are tortoise, ball, bell and other crafts for children to play with; and urn coffin for burial of dead babies. These potteries are suitable for all aspects of human life. The shapes of many daily necessities are almost the same as those of modern daily necessities. In particular, the painted pottery and eggshell pottery can be regarded as fine products, with unique shape, fine workmanship, natural color and simple decoration. Some of them are as thin as eggshell, so they are light and easy to handle. These kinds of pottery are closely related to rice, the staple food of the ancestors at that time, and are the crystallization of the industrious wisdom of the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

The site also unearthed ten primitive tribal house foundations, including square and rectangular ones, ground buildings and semi cavern buildings, all of which are slope type on all sides of the grassland, and the walls are made of bamboo and wood structure and plastered with soil. Due to the heavy rainfall and high groundwater level in Zhijiang, the ancestors of Guanmiao mountain have considered the problem of moisture-proof in their housing construction. They barbecue the foundation cushion and soil wall with fire, and build a apron slope around the wall root. These technologies seem very simple to us today. However, in order to survive in the harsh living environment at that time, our ancestors did not know how many generations of struggle and exploration to master this moisture-proof technology. In this regard, today's archaeological experts give a high evaluation to the original houses and buildings in Guanmiao mountain, and think that the construction technology here has the basic characteristics of Southern architecture. It can be seen that our ancestors in Zhijiang have made great contributions to the development of mankind and the progress of society, and have left precious cultural heritage to our nation.

The cultural connotation of the site is very rich. It not only belongs to Daxi Culture, but also overlaps Qujialing culture layer and Shijiahe culture layer. It is a famous original village site in the Yangtze River Basin. It once again strongly proves that the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin are the same cradle of the Chinese nation.

The archaeological achievements of the site have been recorded in Encyclopedia of China and archaeological discoveries and harvest of new China. The monograph zhijiangguanmiaoshan will be published soon.

Review of planning work

Wen'an town has a long history, so far has carried out the preparation of the second master plan.

1. It was made by the urban and rural construction and Environmental Protection Bureau of Zhijiang County in 1984. This planning is the starting point of Wen'an town planning, which is consistent with the social and economic conditions at that time. However, the constraints of the planning itself and the long implementation period of the planning have brought a lot of inadaptability to urban construction;

2. In 1997, the urban and rural planning and Design Office of Zhijiang City compiled the master plan, and determined that the town mainly undertakes the distribution of agricultural and sideline products and the development of light industry in a certain area. The planned population of the town is 16000 by 2010, and the built-up area is 1.81 square kilometers. The key development direction of the town is to develop to the south of the town based on the current town, and to the two sides of the secondary road appropriately; In the following years, the planning has been guiding the development and construction of cities and towns, making the construction of cities and towns further develop in a scientific and reasonable direction.

Wen'an town attaches great importance to the development of e-commerce. It has introduced powerful e-commerce enterprises such as Taobao home and Shunfeng carton, and built supporting infrastructure such as e-commerce incubator and warehousing logistics to build longquantang "Taobao village". In the next step, Wen'an town will strive to become a "Taobao town", build a provincial e-commerce demonstration town, and realize the economic transformation and development of the whole town.

Qingshan ancient tombs

It is located in Wen'an Town, close to the Chu City of jijiahu, covering an area of 15 square kilometers. There are 24 large tombs and dense Chu tombs. According to the excavated records and archaeological data, it is proved to be the tombs of Chu nobility in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty

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