Gedong Town, Jianhe County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province

Gedong town

Gedong town is the new county seat of Jianhe county. It is located in the east of Guizhou and the middle of Qiandongnan Prefecture. It is adjacent to Liuchuan town in the East, Taijiang County in the South and West, and Shibing county and censong town in the north.

Gedong Town, originally under the jurisdiction of Taijiang County, was put under the jurisdiction of Jianhe county with the consent of the provincial government in 2003. Due to the construction of Sanbanxi Hydropower Station, a key hydropower project in the 10th five year plan, Jianhe county was forced to move from Liuchuan town to Gedong town. Jianhe county was rebuilt in Gedong Town, and a city with Miao Dong characteristics was rebuilt.

General situation of villages and towns

Gedong town is 55 kilometers away from Kaili, the capital of the prefecture, 210 kilometers away from Guiyang (Expressway) in the west, 130 kilometers away from Liping Branch Airport (secondary oil Road) in the south, and 50 kilometers away from Zhenyuan (secondary oil Road) of Hunan Guizhou Railway (double track) in the North. National route 65 and national highway 320 pass through the town for more than 20 kilometers, and Qingshui River, the main water system in the upper reaches of Yuanjiang River, passes through Gedong town for more than 20 kilometers. The town is dominated by mountainous terrain, covering an area of 136 square kilometers, with 31 villages, 4 communities and 159 villager groups, 11509 households and 44057 people, of which 94% are ethnic minorities.

agricultural development

Gedong town is a big agricultural town. Its main crops and cash crops are rice, peanut, pepper, potato, wheat, corn, rape, etc. Jinqiu pear is a special fruit product of Gedong. Since it was introduced in 1995, it has developed to the surrounding counties and cities, with a scale of more than 60000 Mu and an annual output of 680000 tons of high-quality fruit. Gedong town has good development conditions, advantages and opportunities. Gedong town is mainly mountainous, with forest coverage rate of 60.3% and greening rate of 92%. The soil layer is thick and fertile, which is suitable for planting high-quality super rice and various high-quality fruits. There are many broad grasslands in the mountains or valleys, which are suitable for the development of aquaculture. Gedong is located at the northern foot of Leigong Mountain, between 10806-10830 E and 2624-2653 n. The annual rainfall is 1200 mm, the annual average temperature is 16.3-18 ℃, and the frost free period is 247-289 days. According to the climatic division of Guizhou Province, it belongs to the moderate and humid area with two crops a year in Southeast Guizhou.

Folk festivals

The folk custom of Gedong town is simple and mysterious, and the national festivals are rich and colorful. There are dragon recruiting Festival, sister Festival, bridge sacrificing Festival and other traditional festivals, especially the original ecological art forms such as Zuowu Miao water drum dance and Gedong Miao flying song. Zuowu Miao water drum dance is a living fossil recording the original national dance. The Miao flying song is famous at home and abroad, and is named "Chinese folk culture and art" by the Ministry of culture "The land of the land". In addition, the folk customs here are rich and unique, and the national handicrafts are superb. They are all top-grade tourism products that can be developed. The Cambrian biota of balang is famous all over the world, and has great potential for developing popular science tourism. More than 500 kinds of fossil fossils have been found in more than 200 genera and 11 categories. They are numerous, abundant in quantity and exquisite in specimens, ranking the third in the world. They are known as "the golden key to the study of biological evolution". They are one of the candidates for the global stratotype and stratotype positioning (GSSP) of the middle lower Cambrian boundary.

resources

Gedong town has beautiful mountains and rivers and unique tourism resources. Baili natural primitive broad-leaved forest scenic area spans three towns of Jiuyang, Nanshao and Taiyong, meandering more than 50 kilometers and 2 kilometers in depth. There are more than 40 national first, second and third grade rare protected tree species and more than 50 national key protected animals in the scenic area. It is one of the few existing and well preserved subtropical primitive broad-leaved forest areas in China. It is planned to be built into a provincial scientific research and eco-tourism resort. More than 20 scenic spots, such as Laoshanjie, Shili Dujuan, Panxi waterfall group, Pingtang cave group, are beautiful; Shili Long Beach, leidatang, Guanmen rock, husband and wife rock, mainstay, Baxian stone pillar and other scenic spots are brilliant. After the Sanbanxi Hydropower Station is closed for impoundment, a reservoir lake with an area of 85 square kilometers and a backwater length of 130 kilometers will be formed, which arches the wonderful scenery of "mountains in the lake and lakes in the mountains". Jianhe has rich ethnic customs and colorful ethnic costumes, known as "different days in ten li, different costumes in five li". There are 16 kinds of ethnic costumes in the county. Ethnic festivals are rich and colorful, including June 6 Folk Song Festival, guzang Festival, ancestor worship Festival, Xizhai Festival, Guomao Festival, sister Festival, Zhaolong Festival, etc Dance, there are different forms of song and dance in different places, mainly Lusheng dance, wood drum dance and so on. There are cliff inscriptions, Liuji ancient city, daguanao Red Army battle site and other cultural landscapes. Jianhe hot spring, the holy water of Miao Township, has six spring eyes with a flow rate of 1200 tons per day and night. The water temperature is maintained between 36 ℃ and 46.6 ℃ all the year round. The spring water contains hydrogen sulfide, iron, potassium, calcium, radon and other elements. It is one of the three famous springs in China. Its physical and chemical indexes are similar to the famous Weixi hot spring in France. It is a rare radon sulfur hot spring with the efficacy of disinfection, disease removal and skin health, and is listed as a provincial hot spring It is now developing into a tourist attraction integrating sightseeing, bathing, recuperation and vacation. Wenquan Miao farmers inherit and carry forward the national traditional culture, which is named "Chinese farmer painting village" by the Ministry of culture. More than 300 species, 168 genera and 11 classes of paleontological fossils have been found in the balangcun paleontological fossil group of Gedong town. The species, quantity and quality of the fossils are rare in the world. the villages under Gedong town have become the key ethnic tourism villages in Jianhe county. On April 27, 2013, a group of six members from CCTV-4's "home in the distance: a journey of hundreds of mountains and rivers" filmed the life customs and folk customs of the Miao people in tunzhou village, Gedong Town, a key ethnic tourism village in our county, accompanied by the heads of the Publicity Department of the county Party committee, the county tourism office and Gedong town government. Tunzhou village is in the northwest of Jianhe new county. It's only 2 kilometers along the winding uphill mountain road. Tunzhou village is a Miao village with 146 families and 623 people. This humble place is a magical and ancient land. It is only one kilometer away from tunzhou paleontological fossil group, which is known as "the discovery that shocked the world" and "the golden key to the study of biological evolution", on the top of the mountain behind the village. The main buildings in tunzhou village are stilted buildings of full wood structure, which are two-story buildings with one floor and one floor, and the roofs are mostly covered with bluestone slabs. In 2010, the village road was hardened, the village was clean and tidy, and the neighbors lived in harmony. There was no fire in the village since ancient times, and the social order was good. It is one of the "safe villages" in Jianhe county. In 2012, the government funded the completion of the four grade tourist road from Gedong town to tunzhou village.

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