Mengnuo Town, Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province

Mengnuo town

Mengnuo Town, located in Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, is the most dynamic economic center in Nujiang River Basin. Located in the Nujiang gorge, with Shidian, zhenkang a strip of water, across the river, 127 km away from the county.

General situation

Mengnuo town is located in the Nujiang Valley, Facing Shidian and zhenkang by a strip of water and across the river, 127 km away from Longling County, Jiufang Township and across the river in Shidian County in the East, zhenkang and Yongde rivers in the south, pingda and bizhai in the north, covering an area of 227.82 square kilometers. The town is high in the West and low in the East, with the highest altitude of 1720 meters and the lowest altitude of 570 meters. The forest coverage rate is 45.7%, the annual average temperature is 20.6 ℃, and the annual rainfall rate is 45.7% It has a subtropical climate of low heat Valley in Nujiang River Basin. the town governs 6 administrative villages and 83 villager groups, with 3414 households and a total population of 16728 (2017). Mengnuo is rich in sunshine, forest and mineral resources. The tail vein of Hengduan Mountain System winds from west to East until the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, forming the topography of small dams, surrounded by mountains and lakes, which has a unique advantage in Subtropical Resources. The main economic crops of Mengnuo are sugarcane, tea, tobacco, oriental tobacco, Dendrobium (Dendrobium officinale, Dendrobium Shuicao, Dendrobium Huangcao, Dendrobium Arnebiae), teak seedlings, coffee, rock sugar orange, walnut, etc.; the main food crops are rice, Baogu, soybean. In Mengnuo, there are Yunnan Yongchang lead zinc Co., Ltd., Mengnuo branch of Kangfeng sugar group, Sanjiangkou state-owned forest farm and Jiangzhong Mountain Nature Reserve, forming an industry group with mining, sugar making, forestry and biological resources development as well as tropical cash crop planting and development, driving the social and economic development of Mengnuo.

human geography

Mengnuo is a place where the Han, Dai, Lisu, Yi and other nationalities live together. The national culture is rich and colorful, and each has its own characteristics. Most of the ethnic groups are Han nationality. No matter what kind of ethnic group, they all have the customs of offering sacrifices to temples on February 8, sweeping tombs on Tomb Sweeping Day, making Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, gathering the king with his family on July 30, offering the moon on the Mid Autumn Festival, pounding Baba and killing new year pigs on the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, cultural and sports activities such as top games, chess games and basketball games will be held between villages. Cheers can be heard hundreds of meters away. The Dai people are the first people to settle down in Mengnuo. They believe in Hinayana Buddhism and have their own customs. the custom of paying tribute to the trees and protecting the environment on February 8: every February 8, every family brings wine, meat, chicken and pig to pay tribute to the trees and beg for good weather, good grain and safe house. The custom of celebrating autumn harvest from June 15 to September 15: during the period of fasting, the Dai people in each village would go to the temple to worship Buddha for three days. During the three days, the worshippers would only eat fruit, not wine, meat or grain. On the night of fasting, the Dai people in each village would line up to celebrate with drums until dawn. dai new year water sprinkling festival celebrates the new year's hair custom: seven days after Qingming Festival is Dai's water sprinkling Festival. On the first three days of the water splashing Festival, the Dai people wash the Buddhist scriptures, then splash the water, and the carnival begins. The whole Mengnuo is full of jubilation, which is integrated into the washing of water. Dai women are hardworking, virtuous, smart and beautiful. They look like peacocks. Young men and women are free to fall in love when they get married. If their parents do not agree to marriage, they can steal it from their parents and live together after they get their marriage certificate. Only when they get their marriage certificate according to law, can they come to their wives to talk about betrothal gifts and prepare for wedding banquets. Most of the Lisu People in Mengnuo were immigrants in 1956. Before marriage, the man must ask a matchmaker to send leather products for marriage. If the woman agrees to marry, the woman should prepare for the wedding (such as sending the man's brocade bag and the bride's colorful and extremely expensive wedding dress). On the wedding day, all relatives and friends are invited to come home. During the day, they talk and enjoy wine. At night, they hold a banquet in the courtyard. The table is full of sugar, fruit and wine. They begin to "scratch the debt". The sound of flute, three strings and men, women, old and young dance around the table. The scene is extremely spectacular. Until dawn, it is not inferior to the carnival in western countries. the Dai people have discovered in their work that they use a variety of pure natural edible animal and plant resources to make delicious dishes, such as kuchangsheng, zhuersheng, Yusheng, niudabi, etc. they are exquisite in workmanship, which makes you praise them after eating. in recent years, the Han people have the custom of singing on the wedding night. Singing is to put four or five tables of sugar and fruit on the yard hill, close the big rooster under the table, and invite the master who plays the three strings, men, women, young and old, to sing around the table until the third night when the rooster crows. Singing has become an important way to congratulate the bride and bridegroom on their love and their long life together.

Historical evolution

As early as 4000 years ago, human beings left footprints of living and reproducing in Mengnuo. The culture of the original village represented by the great granite site records the ancient and long history of Mengnuo. The unearthed stone tools and pottery are engraved with finger pressing and patting marks. The patterns are made of branches and leaves, water plants and other plants. The pictures are simple, vivid and fluent, recording the natural scenery of Nujiang River Basin, showing the historical style of Mengnuo ancestors' struggle with nature. Mengnuo town was developed in three times after liberation. That is, the reclamation immigrants in 1956, the farm immigrants in 1976, and the poverty alleviation and development immigrants in other places in 1996. Different places, different periods, and different nationalities moved together, resulting in a cultural impact, a cultural impact, and a progress, making Mengnuo ethnic culture colorful. It has been more than 800 years since the Dai people in Dazhai moved to jianzhai in 1193. Dai people believe in Hinayana Buddhism. Water is their favorite. They live close to mountains and rivers. They have the life atmosphere of protecting nature and integrating with nature. The male form of "Ga Yang" of Dai nationality is like hunting and labor, while the female form is like a peacock. The folk problem activities of the Dai people in Mengnuo, the Yi People's nesters, the Lisu People's scraping debts and so on, are full of humanistic connotation. Paper cutting, embroidery, dyeing and weaving have a strong border cultural style.

administrative division

Mengnuo town governs 6 villages, 83 villager groups and 60 natural villages in Mengnuo, Dazhai, tianpo, Haitou, CongGang and Gouxin.

Population nationality

The total population was 16728 (2017). It is a place where Han, Dai, Lisu, Yi and other nationalities live together.

cultural education

Over the years, the town Party committee and government have always given priority to the development of culture and education, comprehensively promoted quality education, further optimized the allocation of educational resources, continuously improved the conditions for running schools, and improved the level of running schools. At the same time, we should firmly grasp the direction of advanced culture, constantly enrich people's spiritual world and activate people's cultural life, innovate ideas, carry out rich, colorful and healthy cultural and sports activities, give full play to the radiation role of town cultural center and village cultural room, and promote the prosperity and development of rural cultural undertakings in the town. The town's cultural undertakings are thriving, campus culture, elderly culture and festival activities are rich and colorful, and various cultural activities are effectively carried out. there is a town level propaganda and cultural center in the town, with a library, reading room, fitness room, basketball court and table tennis room. There are three village level cultural rooms. It can basically meet the needs of the people to learn science, technology and cultural awareness. In 2008, the enrollment rate of school-age children in the town reached 100%, the consolidation rate was 100%, and the graduation rate was 100%. The nine-year compulsory education has been consolidated and improved on the basis of popularization.

economic development

After years of development and construction, Mengnuo has made great progress in economy and society, industrial structure adjustment is becoming more and more reasonable, market town construction is changing with each passing day, cultural, educational and health infrastructure is gradually improved, and people's living standards are steadily improved. In 2004, the total rural economic income was 53.6 million yuan, the financial income was 6.25 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 2005 yuan. In the process of building a well-off society and a harmonious society in an all-round way, the town Party committee and the government clearly realize that the unbalanced development is the "bottleneck" restricting the economic and social development of Mengnuo, and the "three rural issues" are the problems to be solved. It is decided to give full play to the whole town, focus on the construction of small towns and the "three rural" issues, implement the strategy of long-term and close-up scientific planning and overall construction of software and hardware environment, manage small towns with the concept of enterprise, and develop agriculture with the concept of industry; give full play to the six advantages, build the development platform of Mengnuo's second entrepreneurship, and strive to build the company system to develop agriculture, urbanization to build rural areas, and specialized industries It is necessary to improve the economic structure of the town and speed up the economic and social development. Under the correct leadership of the county Party committee and government, the development trend of Mengnuo town as the most dynamic economic center in Nujiang River Basin has become increasingly apparent. traffic location advantage. Mengnuo has convenient transportation and extends in all directions. There are three highways connecting with 3200 national highway, Baolong Expressway and kunwan highway, Huangcaoba Mengnuo county-level oil road, longlingzhenkang Road, longzhendaqiao road and sandadi longzhenqiao second-class oil road, which are about to start construction, leading directly to Nansan border port in zhenkang county and longlingmucheng rural border port in longlingmu county It is an important channel for trade with Myanmar. The traffic artery extending in all directions makes Mengnuo a gathering place and trade center of logistics, passenger flow, capital flow and information flow. advantages of leading enterprises. There are a number of backbone enterprises in Mengnuo, such as Yongchang lead zinc Co., Ltd., Mengnuo branch of Kangfeng Sugar Co., Ltd., Hongyun company, mechanical carbon plant, pine resin processing plant, etc., which are state-owned holding medium-sized and type-2 enterprises. They have formed an industrial cluster focusing on mining and metallurgy, sugar making, building materials and biological resources development, which has driven the development of related industries. the charm of the old industry remains the same, and the new industry rises suddenly. In consolidating sugarcane industry

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