Paitan Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Paitan town

Paitan Town, belonging to Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is located in the north of Zengcheng District, bordering Longmen County in the northeast and Conghua in the northwest. The Tropic of cancer passes through the town, with a total area of 288.50 square kilometers. In late 2018, Pai Tan had a registered residence population of 87532. As of June 2020, paitan town has one community and 36 administrative villages.

According to legend, paitan had set up a Polder in the period of Taiping and Xingguo in Song Dynasty, which was once abandoned, and it was restored in the period of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. In 1949, it was paitan District, the fourth district. In 1987, the town was built. Paitan town has always been an agricultural and commercial center in the north of Guangzhou, and an important base and guerrilla area for Dongjiang revolutionary struggle. Paitan town has won the titles of national key town, national characteristic landscape tourism town, national beautiful and livable Town, National Health Town, China's top ten cultural and leisure tourism town, Guangdong Forest Town, Guangdong civilization Town, etc.

In 2018, paitan town's annual fixed asset investment was 1.514 billion yuan, and its full caliber two tax revenue was 180 million yuan. The town received about 6.58 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 2.8%; tourism revenue was 1.95 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.8%.

Historical evolution

According to legend, paitan had set up a Polder in the period of Taiping and Xingguo in Song Dynasty, which was once abandoned, and it was restored in the period of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty.

In 1949, it was paitan District, the fourth district.

In 1958, paitan commune was established.

In 1983, the district was changed.

In 1987, the town was built.

administrative division

As of June 2020, paitan town has one community and 36 administrative villages.

geographical environment

Location context

Paitan town is located in the north of Zengcheng District, bordering Longmen County in the northeast and Conghua City in the northwest. The Tropic of cancer passes through the town, with a total area of 288.50 square kilometers.

topographic features

Paitan has undulating mountains, crisscross valleys and basins, and hills account for about 70% of the total area. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south. In the north is the extension of the Nankun mountains. There are eight peaks with an altitude of more than 1000 meters, such as Niugu peak and Zhengding peak, on the border. Among them, niuguzhang at the junction of Longmen is 1084.3 meters above sea level, the highest peak in the region.

climate

Paitan has a marine monsoon climate with an average annual temperature of 21.6 ° C and rainfall of 2200mm.

hydrology

Paitan is rich in mineral springs, hot springs, waterfalls and water resources. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, dafenmen I and II hydropower stations have been built successively. The annual power generation accounts for more than 50% of the hydropower generation in the whole region. Among them, baishuizhai hydropower station, with a head of 578 meters, is the hydropower station with the highest head in Guangdong Province.

natural resources

Paitan is rich in resources. There are more than 10 kinds of minerals, including copper, iron, tungsten, gold, tin, coal, tantalum, niobium, and limestone, with reserves of more than 200 million tons.

population

In late 2018, Pai Tan had a registered residence population of 87532.

Economics

In 2018, paitan town's annual fixed asset investment was 1.514 billion yuan, and its full caliber two tax revenue was 180 million yuan. The town received about 6.58 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 2.8%; tourism revenue was 1.95 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.8%.

History and culture

The origin of place names

As early as the first year of Taiping's rejuvenation of the state in the Northern Song Dynasty (976), the polder was built at the foot of Nankun mountain. At that time, there were many Myrica rubra trees in the mountain stream, which was called Myrica rubra capital in ancient times. Paitan originated from the local rich timber, which was transported out to form wood and put into the river pool, called paitan, and later evolved into paitan. Since Ming Dynasty, it was named paitan, which is still in use today.

dialect

Paitan town is an important town integrating Guangfu culture and Hakka culture. About 70% of the population in the town is Hakka. According to the survey in 2005, there are 19707 Cantonese speakers and 53116 Hakka speakers in paitan Town, accounting for 72.94% of the total population

Intangible cultural heritage

Wuhun is a traditional dance of Zengcheng Hakka people, also known as wuhakka cat. It is mainly distributed in paitan, Zhengguo, Licheng and other towns. It is a provincial intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong. According to local folklore, it rose about 300 years ago when Hakka people moved to Zengcheng in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. Dance dance is a kind of traditional performance held by Zengcheng Hakkas at happy events, new year's festivals, even opening shops and building new houses. In addition to expressing the wishes of happiness and good luck, it also contains the meaning of exorcism, which has rich folk and cultural value.

Paitan Hakka folk song is the intangible cultural heritage of Guangzhou. Paitan is located in the mountainous area, has always been popular folk songs, known as the "hometown of folk songs". In the most popular period of folk songs, the mountain singers in each village often contradict the mountain songs with the mountain singers in the neighboring villages. Many male and female singers become husband and wife because of the mountain songs. Their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sing together and even sing with their relatives. Paitan folk songs were the most popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Every autumn and winter, during the slack time in the countryside, singers from villages sing folk songs to each other at the appointed place at night, for at least four or five hours or even until dawn.

Paitan spring cattle dance is a municipal intangible cultural heritage in Guangzhou. Wuchunniu opera uses paper and bamboo to weave a cow as props. It is performed in the form of rap. It has a storyline and sings Chunniu tune. It takes at least 16 people to form a spring cattle team. In the 1960s and 1970s, more than 10 villages in paitan organized spring cattle teams. The better villages are zhangdongkeng, datianwei, Lijing, yakouyi, etc. In 2008, paitan town cultural station recommended zhangdongkeng spring cattle team as the main team and applied to Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of culture for world heritage. In the same year, paitan town cultural station won the title of "Guangzhou intangible cultural heritage".

famous scenery

Baishuizhai scenic spot is a famous provincial scenic spot in Guangdong Province and even in South China, covering an area of 197.3 square kilometers. There are abundant hot springs resources, the water temperature is 28 -73, the sunrise is 4000 tons. The Chinese mainland has the largest mountain fall (428.5 m) of the alpine waterfall - the white Narcissus waterfall; the 9999 level climbing path called the "first ladder of the south of the sky" is built around the waterfalls; there are nine peaks of mountains over 1000 kilometers above sea level, of which the Niu GJU peak is the highest peak in Zengcheng, with an altitude of 1088 meters. Baishuizhai scenic spots are divided into ten scenic spots: baishuixian Waterfall Scenic Spot (national 4A scenic spot), dafengmen scenic spot, gaotan hot spring scenic spot, paitanhe scenic spot, jiangjunshi scenic spot, qixianhu scenic spot, sports and leisure area, Mishi Reclining Buddha area, chedong Shuiche scenic spot and niuguzhang scenic spot.

Honorary title

In 2019, paitan town will be listed as one of the "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in China in 2018".

In October 2019, paitan town was selected as one of the "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in China in 2019".

In July 2020, the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee reconfirmed the national health city (District) and national health township (county), and paitan town was the National Health township.

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