Cengtai Town, qixingguan District, Bijie City, Guizhou Province

Chentai town

Chentai town is located in the northeast of Bijie City, 37 kilometers away from the city center, with a total area of 77.1 square kilometers. It is adjacent to xiaojichang town in the southeast, Haizijie town in the southwest, bazhaiping town in the west, Yanzikou town and Liangyan town in the north.

Name and origin

Because the territory was originally a mountain, wild and clear, with thousands of steep slopes, it was named terrace.

geographical position

Located in the northeast of qixingguan District, it is adjacent to xiaojichang town in the southeast, Haizijie town in the southwest, bazhai town in the west, Yanzikou town and Liangyan town in the north. The people's government is stationed in Xinjie Road, taicun, cengtai village. The area code is 0857 and the postal code is 551709. It is 37 kilometers away from the urban area.

Evolution of administrative districts

There is a terrace in the open.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, information was set up on the platform.

Bijie was liberated in 1949 and belongs to Liangyan Jichang township of five districts.

In 1950, it belonged to bazhaiping Jichang Township, six districts.

In 1952, it was one of the 10 villages under the jurisdiction of Jichang, nine districts.

In 1954, the village was changed to build a township, belonging to xiaojichang of nine districts.

In 1958, it was one of the 5 communes in Jichang district.

In 1959, it was one of the 8 administrative areas of Jichang commune.

In 1962, Haizi block and Jichang district were combined into Haizi block. It is one of the 12 communes in Haizi street.

In 1963, it was one of the 10 communes in Jichang district.

In 1965, chentai, Huangchang and Qinglong were merged into chentai commune.

From 1984 to 1990, it was one of 5 townships and 1 town in Jichang district.

In 1991, the district was withdrawn and the township was built. Sili township was merged into Langtai township.

In 1994, the township was transformed into a town.

administrative division

By the end of 2011, it had 13 villager committees, including sheantai, Donggou, Qingchun, Hongyan, Guanghui, Wuliqiao, Guanxiang, Xiangyang, Yulong, Sili, Niuchang, fujiagou and Xingfu, with 160 villager groups.

As of June 2020, it has jurisdiction over 3 community neighborhood committees and 10 village committees.

Agriculture and animal husbandry

The arable land area of cengtai town is 19000 mu, with 0.76 mu per capita agricultural land. The main crops are corn, rice, potato, wheat, rape, buckwheat, etc., and the economic crops are sericulture, Chinese herbal medicine, spade, chestnut, etc. Rich in forestry resources, there are 20000 mu of Chinese fir forest farm, 17000 mu of natural forest, with the forest coverage rate of 32%, and the forest coverage rate of Xiaban town is more than 70%. It is the largest forest farm in Bijie City, with abundant timber reserves. There are many kinds of wild plants in the forest area, which are good resources for ecological forestry tourism. Rich in mineral resources, mainly coal, pyrite, shale. Coal is distributed in six villages of Guanghui, Hongyan, Wuliqiao, Qingchun, Donggou and Xiangyang, with very large reserves. Shale is distributed in every village, which is a high-quality material for stone processing.

Due to its unique soil and climate conditions, it is very suitable for sericulture. Cengtai town should seize this advantage, focus on the goal of building "ecological agriculture demonstration town", take the path of "mulberry silkworm grass livestock biogas" five supporting circular agriculture development, and effectively promote the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure with "mulberry planting and silkworm rearing" as the leading project. Since 2000, 5000 mu of dwarf close planting mulberry garden has been developed, most of which have entered the peak production period. The vast majority of farmers have skillfully mastered sericulture technology, standardized management of mulberry garden, and achieved sericulture four seasons a year. Sericulture association was established in July 2005 to promote the industrialized management mode of "company + base + association + farmer". The cocoons in the platform town have the characteristics of large size, white cocoon, long silk, high rate of thinning and elimination, and good gloss. The silk quilt processed by platform cocoon is soft, light, durable, warm and comfortable, and has certain brand advantages.

By returning farmland to grassland, planting grass in mulberry garden, and planting grass on barren slope, 5000 mu of grassland will be added, and animal husbandry will be vigorously developed. High quality beef cattle farm and household feeding points, piglet breeding base, commercial pig farm and commercial sheep farm have been established. More than 1000 commercial cattle, more than 10000 commercial pigs, more than 1600 commercial sheep and more than 500 tons of poultry products are sold in the town every year.

Characteristic resources

There are 9 Cunninghamia lanceolata forest farms built according to the national standards, covering an area of 20032 mu, with an economic value of more than 100 million yuan. And its ecological benefits are more inestimable, forest trees, flowers and birds, do not lose the scenery of eco-tourism. Abundant timber reserve is an important resource for national construction.

There are abundant coal mines and sulfur mines in cengtai Town, mainly distributed in Donggou, Hongyan, Guanghui and Wuliqiao villages. Yanghe coal mine and Hepinggou coal mine are being integrated in the name of Bijie Changyun coal mine, with an annual output of 150000 tons.

folk culture

The Miao people's village in Chengtai town has its own unique clothing and food. For example: men can't dress politely, they can't dress casually. Miao women usually wear short clothes with narrow sleeves, big collar and double breasted on the upper body and pleated skirts on the lower body. Dress or long enough, elegant and colorful, or short less than knee, graceful and moving. For casual wear, they usually wear a bandanna on their head, a short jacket with a large skirt on their upper body, trousers with embroidered lace on their lower body, and an embroidered waistband with a little exquisite silver ornaments.

Women's dress style is the most, wearing pleated skirt, but the length is different, some to the feet, some more than the calf, some over the knee, some only about 30 cm, but skirt to calf is the most common. The color is green, blue and white. The skirt has embroidery, cross stitch, inlay, batik or plain. There are big lapels and big collars on the top. During festivals, women visit relatives and friends and wear a variety of silver ornaments on their heads, necks and wrists.

The style of men's clothing is relatively simple. Men generally wear a pair of skirts or left skirt short clothes (some also wear right skirt short clothes), trousers, big belt and blue scarf. Winter leg wrap gaiters. In Northwest Guizhou, they wear linen clothes with patterns and sheep felt on their shoulders. Miao men's dress is relatively simple, the top is mostly a pair of short clothes or right Lapel long shirt, the shoulders are covered with geometric patterns of wool felt, the head is wrapped with blue head, and the legs are wrapped with gaiters. No matter what kind of clothing, from material preparation to ready-made clothes, are made by women's self spinning, self weaving, self dyeing, self sewing and self embroidering, which costs a lot of work.

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