Zhaiying Town, Songtao Miao Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province

Zhaiying town

Zhaiying town is a town under the jurisdiction of Songtao Miao Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province. It is located in the southwest of Songtao Miao Autonomous County and the south foot of Fanjing National Nature Reserve. It is 58 km away from Songtao County, 78 km away from Tongren City and 107 km away from Daxing airport. It is adjacent to pujue town in the East, Wuluo town in the west, Mengxi town in the north and nuxi Township and Taiping Township in Jiangkou County in the south . Jiangyou Road, zhaimeng Road, Chongqing Huaihua railway and Songtao Western Tourism Road pass through the territory. The total land area of the town is 200.75 square kilometers, with 17542.7 mu of arable land, including 12142.478 mu of farmland. The terrain is high in the West and low in the East. The highest altitude is 1484 meters, the lowest is 351 meters, and the average altitude is 500-750 meters. It has jurisdiction over 20 villages, 4 communities and 276 villager groups, with a population of 38650. Han, Miao, Dong, Tujia, Gelao and other ethnic minorities live together for generations. The territory is rich in mineral, forest and tourism resources. It has four gold lettered signboards, including national key cultural relics protection units, hometown of Chinese dragon rolling art, hometown of Chinese folk culture and art, and China's unique town. In history, it once enjoyed the reputation of "little Nanjing" at the foot of Fanjing Mountain.

Historical evolution

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to the developed waterways and prosperous commerce, it was sometimes called "little Nanjing". Zhaiying was established in the Qing Dynasty, Zhaiying Township in the Republic of China, Zhaiying Township and Zhaiying commune after the founding of the people's Republic of China, Zhaiying town in 1985, and now Zhaiying town was established by merging Luoman Township and Dengbao Township in 1992. The construction of Songjiang oil road, zhaimeng Road, Yuhuai Railway and Songtao west tourism road will form the main traffic network of Zhaiying. The town is rich in mineral, forest and tourism resources, known as "Zhaiying ancient town", "manganese city" and national "rolling Dragon Art town".

natural resources

Zhaiying has a mild climate, abundant rainfall, fertile land and rich products. It has the famous ten thousand mu dam in Dengbao, which has good production and living conditions. Its food crops include rice, corn, sweet potato, potato, etc.; its cash crops include rape, peanut, etc., which is one of the main food producing areas in the county. Zhaiying also has rich natural resources, with forest coverage rate of more than 48%, and growth of camphor and Phoebe There are some rare and precious plants, such as bamboo shoots, Osmunda japonica, suanzangtai, Mihoutao, mujiangzi, August melon, Galla chinensis, tung oil tree, Lentinus edodes and other green wild foods. There are some local specialties, such as "rice tofu" and "fontanelle duck" of Zhaiying. There are some precious medicinal materials, such as wild Gastrodia elata, Eucommia ulmoides, ginkgo, etc There are lots of Davidia involucrata forest in yangque WanMu forest farm, which is a national first-class protected plant. It is very ornamental in the flowering season. there are many kinds of wild animals, including wild goat, pheasant, golden pheasant, egret, Guizhou Golden Monkey, boar, hare, hedgehog, owl, pangolin and other precious animals. There are more than 100 kinds of birds and dozens of snakes. In the clear and bright mountain spring water, there are some rare fish, such as salamander, Tuan fish, Shan Ma fish, stone mussel, mandarin fish and so on. the proven mineral resources include manganese, phosphate, pyrite, lead-zinc, silicate, crystal, copper, uranium and quartz sandstone. Among them, the reserves of manganese ore ranks first in the province and has been mined in a certain scale. The mining and processing of manganese ore has become the main economic pillar of Zhaiying. Zhaiying is rich in historical and cultural heritage and tourism resources, especially the national folk culture represented by rolling dragon. With its unique weaving technology and dragon dance skills, Zhaiying can be regarded as one of the best in China. In February 2003, Zhaiying was named "the hometown of rolling Dragon Art in China" by the Ministry of culture. Built in Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty, Qunxing, a well preserved ancient building, is an ancient town worthy of its name. Now it has been established as "Fanjingshan Museum of Songtao county". Now it is protected and restored as a famous historical and cultural town. It was listed as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council on March 28, 2006. The ancient buildings in Zhaiying town are well structured, simple and elegant, and well arranged. The ancient city wall, Qingshiban street and hongshiban Fanjing ancient road are unique; the Jinshan Temple, Huilong Temple, Wanshou Palace, Fushou palace, Guanyin Mountain, wuguidong, Shiban natural painting, duyanchong and xiaojinding have thousands of scenery states; the five kilometer long hunshuidong hydropower station reservoir area and the ten mile waterfall have picturesque mountain and water scenery; the magnificent scenery is beautiful Cave wonders and unique style of "rolling Dragon Art" attract guests from all over the world.

infrastructure

The power supply of Zhaiying town is guaranteed. 24 villages in the town have been electrified, and more than 98% of the farmers can use electricity. The communication facilities are very developed, and the program-controlled telephone, mobile phone, Unicom and other mobile phones have been opened. The installed capacity of the program-controlled telephone is 10000, and more than 700 have been installed. 20 villages have built roads to the villages, and the village road network in the whole town has been basically formed. The pace of urban construction has been accelerated and remarkable results have been achieved. The first phase of zhaiyingxin Street project has been completed, and the second phase of small town development project has been started. So as to promote the development of service industry and promote the development of market economy in the town. Education is gradually developing. There are 2 middle schools and 24 primary schools in the town (including 7 teaching spots), 196 public teachers and 68 substitute teachers, with a total of 7753 students.

economic development

Since the reform and opening up, relying on the rich mineral resources, Zhaiying has developed a variety of businesses with manganese mining and processing as the leader. Its economy has developed rapidly, and township enterprises have begun to take shape. At present, there are 1 county owned private manganese mine, 3 town owned township enterprises, 1 investment exploration enterprise, 2 village run enterprises and 1 investment intensive enterprise. In 2005, the gross domestic product of the town was 112.83 million yuan, the total financial revenue was 3.607 million yuan, the total output value of township enterprises was 238.1 million yuan, and the added value of township enterprises was 37.5 million yuan, ranking the top three in the county. In order to speed up the development of Zhaiying economy, the Party committee and government of Zhaiying town have formulated a series of development plans and measures. Relying on the rich mineral, forest and tourism resources, the Party committee and government of Zhaiying town have vigorously introduced capital, technology and talents, which has laid a solid foundation for the brilliant future of Zhaiying economy. The future of Zhaiying will be better.

Customs and culture

Zhaiying gunlong has a history of more than 600 years. At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the crown prince Zhu Zhen led his army to the remote Wuling mountain area to open up territory and pacify the people. All the way, he took the lead, stormed the battle, went through all the difficulties and dangers, and after arriving at Zhaiying, he took a fancy to this geomantic treasure land, so he ordered his soldiers to set up camp, build castles and repair fortifications. After calming down the local Miao people's rebellion, they made use of the favorable conditions of water transportation from Zhaiying to Dongting to develop people's reclamation, open commercial ports, build academic centers, and advocate industry and trade in Zhaiying and its surrounding areas. Shortly after that, the families of the garrison came one after another, businessmen from all over the country came one after another, and Buddhist activities flourished day by day. Zhaiying soon developed into the largest military and economic town in Fanjing Mountain area, and became an important business distribution center in eastern Guizhou. The prosperity of economy promoted the development of culture. Merchants brought Chenhe opera, Yangxi opera and Sichuan Opera, and blended with the tea lanterns made and danced by local people, which evolved into Zhaiying lantern with deep charm. The dragon culture of Central Plains and local dragon culture were perfectly combined, which greatly improved the artistic level of Zhaiying rolling dragon, and gradually formed a collection of textile, embroidery, carving, paper cutting and calligraphy Zhaiying's Dragon rolling culture is a combination of art, art, dance, stunt, speech and many other arts. The rolling Dragon Art of Zhaiying ancient town is unique, with unique conception, perfect shape and exquisite workmanship, which has a strong national cultural heritage. The rolling dragon is 36 meters long, and is divided into 17 sections (also known as holes). It is danced by 34 people in turn. Nine bamboo strips thick with thumbs are tied together to form a keel. 500 bamboo strips with a diameter of about 60 cm are arranged equidistant to form the dragon body. Then the whole silk cloth is painted with spotted scales and covered on the bamboo strips. The dragon head is made of thick bamboo and twisted, fixed on the Dragon frame, and painted with special fireproof cloth. The dragon's body is decorated with oil. It looks like a real dragon from afar. Because the Ming army had been stationed in Zhaiying for a long time and knew the superb performing skills of Zhaiying's Dragon rolling, Yongle, Jiajing, Wanli of Ming Dynasty, Qianlong and Jiaqing of Qing Dynasty were called to perform in Beijing many times. Emperor Qianlong once awarded "dragon" as a reward. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zhaiying once organized a large-scale dragon rolling Lantern Festival. In order to show her style, the rich businessmen took the lead and all the people donated money to hire three big boats to go down the Chenhe River to Suzhou and Hangzhou via Dongting to buy musical instruments and lighting materials such as gongs, drums, hairpins and so on. During the Lantern Festival, thousands of worship posts were distributed to Songtao, Jiangkou, Tongren, Fenghuang, Mayang, Jishou, Huayuan and other places, and dragon rolling dances were performed all over Wuling mountain area. since the reform and opening up, in order to start the brand of Zhaiying gunlong, the weaving and binding technology has leapt to a new level on the basis of tradition. The artists are determined to innovate and learn from others' strong points, organically combine traditional technology with modern electronic technology, change oil twist into low voltage light bulb, install colored lights on the dragon, use small motor as power to make the mouth of the Dragon close automatically, and the eyelids flash, making it emit flashing blue light, making it more energetic and spiritual, more vivid and magical. In the performance of moves, we abandon the traditional casual and disorderly dance method, and design dozens of new roll dance moves, all of which are endowed with certain connotation. The common roll dance moves are: "dragon out of the cave", "river and sea", "dragon playing with beads", "dragon rolling", "heaven and earth upside down", "dragon crossing the river", "dragon playing with water", "dragon crossing the mountain", "Dragon meditating", "two dragons snatching treasure", "flying with two wings", "two dragons crossing the edge", "male and female flirting", "two dragons making trouble in the sea", "Dragons snatching treasure" and so on Besides, it can also be made into many shapes and figures, such as "dragon", "spring", "China", "China", Olympic logo "five links", "Lotus" and so on

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