Chetian Town, Longchuan County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province

Chetian town

Chetian Town,

Longchuan Town, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, is located in the northeast of Heyuan City, the Midwest of Longchuan County, and the upper reaches of Dongjiang River, with a total area of 312 square kilometers. It is a hilly area with high terrain in the north and low terrain in the south. It is rich in rare earth resources.

Chetian town is positioned as the "business center town in the middle and upper half of Longchuan County".

geographic information

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Chetian town was built in the late Qing Dynasty. It was named as Chetian because it was irrigated by water truck because it was mostly dry land on both sides of the river. It was originally divided into "Chetian treaty" and "shanglvtun". It was merged into Chetian Bureau in the Republic of China. After liberation, it was under the jurisdiction of Lizui district. In 1952, the Tenth District was set up. In 1957, the district was withdrawn and the township was merged. In 1958, Chetian commune was established. In 1977, it was divided into two communes, Chetian commune and zhengma commune. In 1983, Chetian commune was withdrawn and Chetian district was established. In 1987, Chetian town was established. In 2003, the former zhengma Town, Fengshuba Town, Zhangzhou, Lianfeng and Jiaofeng villages were merged into Chetian town.

Regionalization

Chetian town

It has 23 village committees, including Chetian, zhengma neighborhood committee, Chetian village, Yetang village, Datong village, Yuantang village, Chimu village, xueqie village, Zhangshi village, guantianling village, Gonghe village, mache village, Liantang village, Silian village, Zhangzhou village, Jiaofeng village, zhengma village, Zhengli village, Fengshi village, Shixia village, Huangbu village, Jingguang village, Tanghu village, Guoling village and zengkeng village, with a total of 500 members Cooperative, town government in Chetian Town Street, provincial road and foreign line, South to Longchuan, north to Heping, street planning 3.3 square kilometers, has been completed with Nanxing street, farmer street, old street, Hexi Changdi street, Hongguang street and other six streets, Fubei street, Hedong Changdi street has formed a planning.

Population culture

In 2004, the total population of Chetian town was 60106, including 57578 agricultural households and 2528 non-agricultural households, totaling 13353 households, including 11649 agricultural households and 1704 non-agricultural households.

51021 (2017).

The population of the town is Han nationality. There are cultural relics such as Huaguang temple, Jizushan ancient bell and so on. The main specialties are Chetian tofu, Chetian rice wine, Chetian peanut, beef jerky and so on.

On Chetian culture

Folk festivals and customs in Chetian

According to the folk custom in Chetian, there are mainly the following festivals in a year. When this festival comes, the common people celebrate it:

Spring Festival: commonly known as the old calendar year, also known as the new year, the most solemn and important festival in the tradition, is the beginning of the year.

Out of 15: that is the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival follow-up Festival, after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is over.

February 2: spring ploughing begins on the opening day.

Qingming Festival: it is a festival of sacrifice. People have the custom of stepping on Qingming and digging Qingming roots.

May Festival: that is, Duanwu Festival. It is said that it is a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan and also a festival to wrap zongzi.

Li summer: spring is over, summer has arrived, add vegetables to celebrate.

July half: the autumn planting is finished and the rice dumplings are wrapped. It is said that Duanwu is busy with spring ploughing, and Duanwu is changed to July half, commonly known as July Festival.

August 15: also known as the Mid Autumn Festival, is the festival of human reunion.

Chongyang Festival: going out and climbing high, it is said to ward off evil spirits.

Winter solstice: welcome the arrival of winter, folk brewing tofu.

New calendar year: that is new year's day, the folk is too small, in fact, the prelude to the old calendar year.

Chetian Uprising

In January 1949, the Guangdong Jiangxi Hunan border column of the Chinese people's Liberation Army was officially established. The original Guangdong Jiangxi border detachment was renamed Dongjiang second detachment of the Guangdong Jiangxi Hunan border column, which is referred to as "Dongjiang second detachment". In order to cooperate with the army's going south and accelerate the liberation of Guangdong, the Party committee of the Jiulian region of the Communist Party of China instructed the establishment of a vast number of joint guerrilla bases in Heping, Lianping, Longchuan, Heyuan, Xingning and Western Wuhua counties in the Jiulian region and in Gannan region of Jiangxi Province.

To this end, commander Zheng Qun of the second East detachment led the main third and sixth regiments (leader Lin Jingqiu and political commissar Luo Weiqiang) to move from Hexi to northeast Heping, northern Longchuan and southern Jiangxi, actively annihilating the Kuomintang's stubborn army and disintegrating the local Kuomintang's rural regime and joint defense team. Under the impetus and influence of our strong political offensive and the "five battles and five victories" of the two East branches, the stubborn Kuomintang troops were trapped in the turrets where our army went, and did not dare to act rashly.

Many of the joint defense teams that were forced to be set up and the upper echelons of the District, township and Baotou governments showed negative and wavering. Some of them were disbanded secretly and voluntarily. Many of them sent people to get in touch with us and provide secret information. Some of them wanted to revolt as soon as possible and make contributions to the people. At that time, the leaders of the second East branch and the sixth regiment could see that they could take the lead in the border areas of Longchuan and Heping County (including Heping's Guzhai, pengzhai, an'ao, beidun, Yousheng, Dongshui, Xiache, Changtang, Qingzhou, Reshui, Chetian, Wuding, Huangbu, Chiguang, Beiling, Longmu, Huangshi and other towns in northern Sichuan in Longchuan, and Dingnan, Longnan, QUANNAN and other counties in Jiangxi, which are close to Guangdong) We have established a vast base area for joint development.

The CPC Jiulian prefectural committee and the second East detachment decided to establish the CPC Longchuan and Pingbian Working Committee, which is composed of Luo Yangwen, deputy secretary and propaganda member of Li Qun, member of Chen Rongzhang, member of Liang Xixiang and leader of the underground party, and member of Lin Ruo. In order to achieve this goal and put forward plans and measures, Longhe border Working Committee held several special meetings.

First meeting

The first meeting was held in shangbankeng, Guzhai Town, Heping County. Besides Wen, Li Qun, Chen Rongzhang, Lin Ruo and Liang Xixiang, he Youda, Ling Chuntao, Peng wanqin, Xie Zitao and Xiao Ribao also attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by Comrade Luo Yangwen, who conveyed the report of the superior on the current good situation and why we should do a good job in the car uprising. I conveyed the plan of how to liberate Guzhai, an'ao and other towns. The meeting divided the work. Comrade Luo Yangwen, Peng wanqin, Xie Zitao and other comrades went back to North Sichuan to make preparations for the "car uprising"; I led Zheng Xin on the order of the sixth regiment of the second East detachment Qiang, Li Genlian (the main force of the sixth regiment) and Liu Jin's squadron liberated Guzhai, an'ao and other places first after the Spring Festival; Comrade Lin Ruo led Liu Linshan, a military team, to go to Yousheng, get off the train, Changtang and other places. In the middle of the night of March 1, 1949, we liberated Guzhai, an'ao tianyuzhai and other townships without firing a single shot. We captured more than 60 Kuomintang Township heads, an'ao Township heads, joint defense directors and team members, and seized more than 60 rifles and a batch of ammunition.

After opening the warehouse and distributing the grain to the people nearby, and publicizing the good situation to the broad masses, the KMT will lose and our army will win, the truth of overthrowing the reactionary rule of the KMT and the policies of "reducing rent and interest", "dividing the fields and grain", "opposing the three levies", "three disciplines, and eight points of attention" implemented by our army, our army took the initiative to withdraw from the ancient village and follow the six regiments to fight in the peaceful northeast and Longchuan In the northern area, they took the initiative to crack down on the KMT's District, township, and Bao regimes and joint defense strongholds in this area. At that time, Zhu Wenhe and Yang Ronglie persisted in the struggle in northern Sichuan. They cooperated with the underground Party comrades to do the National Party and government uprising in Chetian, took part in the ideological work of liberating Chetian, and attacked the enemy. Peng wanqin was promoted from Zhu Wenhe's position as team instructor. The main force of the second East branch and most of the sixth regiment moved to Hexi again. The organization sent me to lead the Zheng Xinqiang team, Liu Jin team, Peng wanqin, Ling Chuntao, Xie Zongzhou and other military teams around the Chetian area in northern Sichuan to assist the underground party in the work of the Chetian uprising.

At that time, why did we first liberate the Chetian and plan the Chetian uprising as an important work? This is because:

(1) Chetian is the only way for Longchuan to reach Heping, Lianping, Jiangxi and Gannan. Chetian market town has Pingchuan of 20 to 30 miles. Surrounded by mountains, it can attack and defend. It is rich in grain, live pigs, three birds and peanuts. It is a prosperous place for Longchuan and Heping County's border area's farmers' market, which can provide supplies for the larger army activities, and is a must for military strategists;

(2) Under the influence of the great revolution and our party's practice of "reducing rent and interest", "opposing the three levies" and "dividing land and grain", the underground party and the armed forces in Chetian area of northern Sichuan have made remarkable achievements in their activities and organizational development;

(3) In addition to doing a good job in publicizing the masses, we also did a good job in the United Front Work for the upper ranks of the Kuomintang's District, township and village governments and the joint defense teams. Progressive people such as Deng quqing (the former Chetian district chief, who became the township chief after the election), Deng Hongen squadron leader, Chen Dezhong vice captain, Deng Xiaopu County senator, sympathize and support us, and have the desire to make contributions to the uprising.

In order to do a good job in the Chetian uprising, the Longhe County border Working Committee held a second meeting in peidun, Heping. The participants included Li Qun, Chen Rongzhang, he Youda, Peng wanqin, Xie Zitao, Ling Chuntao, Xiao Ribao, Li Gen, Zheng Xinqiang and Xie Guoying. I presided over the meeting (Luo Yangwen has been transferred to central Sichuan) and inspected the preparations for the Chetian uprising since the previous meeting; Peng wanqin, Xie Zitao and other comrades reported on the development of the underground Party organizations of the Communist Party of China, the joint propaganda and mobilization of the masses, especially the United Front Work of a group of squires, such as Deng quqing, the former KMT district chief (who was the township head before the uprising) and Deng Hongen, the joint defense team leader. It was immediately decided: first, to send our elite team to join the joint defense team secretly to monitor them; second, to continue to mobilize the masses and the township chief to remove those reactionary personnel through re-election. Through the efforts of the underground party and the armed forces team, Deng quqing was elected as Chetian township chief and joint defense director, Deng Hongen continued to serve as joint defense team leader, Chen Dezhong as deputy team leader, and former township chief Deng zuocang He was forced to resign and return to his hometown.

After the second meeting

I made a special trip to Hexi to report to Wei Nanjin, Zheng Qun, Lin Jingqiu and other leading comrades. The leaders agreed that we should lead Peng wanqin, Xie Zitao, Chen Depei and other comrades to hold talks with Chetian, Deng Quyou, Deng Hongen, Deng Yaopu and other squires on our behalf, and asked us to explain to them the situation, the great significance of the uprising and the political support for the uprising personnel

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