Runcheng Town, Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province

Runcheng town

Runcheng town has always been one of the most prosperous towns in Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province. Qinhe river was called "Jishui" in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was infiltrated like milk and fed the people of Runcheng town. At the end of Ming Dynasty, the rich Runcheng town was attacked by bandits many times. In order to resist bandits and protect itself, Runcheng built three Castles: Tuncheng, Liushan city and dishei city.

Hundreds of years later, Tuncheng and Liushan are now the only sites left, and only Dili city is basically preserved. On July 22, 2010, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development and the State Administration of cultural relics approved and decided Runcheng Town, Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province, as a famous historical and cultural town in China.

On October 14, 2016, Runcheng Town, Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province was listed as the first batch of towns with Chinese characteristics.

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geographical position

Runcheng Town, Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, is located 7 kilometers east of Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province. As early as the Warring States period, it was an important town for Han and Zhao to fight. It was called "Shaocheng" and "Xiaocheng" in ancient times. It was once called "tieye town" because of the prosperous smelting industry. It was changed to "Runcheng" in the 38th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty. Environmental Science

Runcheng town is surrounded by four mountains and three rivers. Runcheng town is located on the East Bank of Qinhe River in the east of Yangcheng County. Fanxi river flows through the town. Jinyang Expressway passes through the village in the north, with Runcheng exit and Jinhan highway in the south. It is only 7 km away from Yangcheng station of Houyue railway line.

Runcheng town covers an area of 72.81 square kilometers, with a permanent resident population of 31126 people (in 2017), 29 administrative villages, cultivated land area of 21707 mu, 332 town and village enterprises, and individual businesses scattered all over the place. In 2004, the economic income was 1051.4 million yuan, and the per capita income was 4010 yuan. Runcheng town is the seat of government organs. It has been famous as a historical and cultural town since ancient times.

history

Dilicheng and Dongyue Temple are protected by provincial cultural relics, and the buildings of government and businessmen are everywhere. In ancient times, it was one of the four towns in Yangcheng. Since the yuan and Ming Dynasties, handicraft industry and commerce were quite developed, rich merchants emerged one after another, the style of writing was prosperous, the number of imperial examiners ranked first in the county, and the population was large and concentrated. It used to be the leading cultural and commercial town in Yangcheng County.

At present, there are provincial protected cultural relics, such as the ancient castle of Ming Dynasty, Dongyue Temple in Runcheng and Dongyue Temple in Tuncheng. Tuncheng village was named after BaiQiTun grain during the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period,

Shangzhuang village, the former residence of Wang Guoguang, the Minister of the Ming Dynasty, influenced the Taoist Holy Land of eight provinces, such as Tiantan mountain, Kaiming temple in Wangchuan village, and Tangdi temple in Shangfu village and Zhongzhuang village. In addition, the yaojiayuan, where commander-in-chief Zhu De lived when he came to Runcheng during the Anti Japanese War, the site of zitailing ambush, which destroyed the Japanese puppet blockhouses, and the cemetery of zitailing martyrs, which were all precious historical and cultural heritages.

In this rich land, there are many famous people with lofty ideals, such as Wang Guoguang, a politician and financier in the Ming Dynasty, a minister of the Ministry of official affairs and the crown prince, a Guanglu official, Zhang Dunren, a Sinologist and mathematician in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Shenyan, a minister of the Ministry of household affairs, and Zhang Jin, a poet in cloth clothes. These sages practice, laid the foundation of culture run city.

Runcheng town is not only a famous cultural town, historical town, economic town and trade town with a long history, but also a tourist destination with a long history. Qindu boat, one of the Eight Sights of Guyang City, is a high concentration of the scenery along the Qinhe river.

The tide rises, the water rises, the wind blows and the sails sing all the way. With high morale and heroic pace, the people of Runcheng strive to build the ancient town into a prosperous, civilized and beautiful town in Shanxi and a strong town in China.

Literature and history

Fan Shan puts on his hat, and the small town uncovers him

"Fan Shan puts on his hat, and the small town reveals his life" is a popular proverb in Runcheng for hundreds of years. But now, many young people do not understand the truth.

Kele mountain is located in the east of Runcheng village, with an altitude of more than 1500 meters. It is the birthplace of Runcheng East River. Fanshan, its main peak, is about 25 kilometers away from Runcheng village. In summer and autumn, the mountain blocks the warm and humid air flow from southeast to northwest and produces cumulonimbus clouds, thus forming topographic rain,

And it is easy to rain, leading to flash floods, East River surge. Once the Donghe river rises sharply, due to the large water level difference, the river in Runcheng village is narrow, which often causes disasters to Runcheng.

The city is Runcheng village. Qinhe river runs down the village from north to South; Donghe river flows through the village from east to west, flows into Qinhe River and flows to the south. Runcheng village is a huge industrial and commercial town in Taihang Mountain in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has dense residents and many merchants. There are 202 shop names listed in the monument of Xuanwu temple in Dongping of Runcheng. According to Yangcheng County annals, Runcheng village was the largest market in Ze, Lu, Pingyang, Hedong and Northern Henan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties By the 1930s, Runcheng village still had a lot of shop names, shops and workshops on both sides of the Donghe river. Naturally, there were many restaurants and local snacks. Among them, many restaurants mainly sell pancakes, steamed buns and other foods, and the cooking utensils they use are called "Yi".

In ancient times, when information was underdeveloped and there was no weather forecast, people summed up proverbs to avoid disasters. In the summer and autumn rainy season, Runcheng people on both sides of the East River will move their infrequent items to safe places, leaving only some necessary items for temporary moving.

As long as there are dark clouds on the top of Fanshan mountain - 25 kilometers away in Runcheng, it's like wearing a hat on Fanshan - the owners of restaurants and snack stalls on both sides of Donghe River yell: "Fanshan is wearing a hat!" On the other hand, he immediately took off the fire, sealed the fire, cleaned up the things in the shop and evacuated to the safe area. When the East River Falls, or after the flood season, they move back to do business. This is "Fan Shan puts on his hat, and the small town uncovers his shadow.".

Before the Anti Japanese War, Runcheng was the first commercial town in the county, and was the production and marketing center of iron goods in the county. The industry and business are quite developed In total, there are more than 100 companies and more than 500 people, many of whom have gone to various parts of China to do business. By the mid-1950s, all kinds of shops on both sides of the East River in Runcheng village had disappeared.

In the mid-1970s, the project of "splitting mountains into rivers" in Runcheng town forced Qinhe River to pass through Liushan mountain, far away from Runcheng village. In summer and autumn, due to the lack of the help of the Qinhe River, the sediment brought by the East River's surge silted up in the riverbed of the village and in the old channel of the Qinhe River to the south of the East River. Now, even the remains of those shops are buried under the thick sand. No wonder young people don't know and understand this proverb.

Donghe YANGTIE Niubao water situation

A long time ago, the Qinhe river often overflowed, and the people on both sides of the river suffered from floods, especially the people in muluangdian (now Wuzhi County, Henan Province), which is the most downstream of the Qinhe river. How can we know the news of the rising river in the upper reaches of the Qinhe River earlier?

Qinhe River originates from Qinyuan County of Shanxi Province, flows through Qinshui, Ze (now Yangcheng County) and other counties to muluangdian of Henan Province, and flows into the Yellow River. Dongheyang Village (now Shangfu Village) is located on the East Bank of the Qinhe river. It is a town of civilization in history. Beside the Bank of the river in the west of the village, there is an iron ox lying on the bank. His eyes are staring at the river and his attention is very focused. It looks lifelike, vivid, attracted passers-by stop to watch, caress its head, touch its body, the iron ox full of light.

Legend has it that this iron ox is the God of Zhenhe. In fact, it is a "water level gauge" carefully designed by people. At that time, every flood season, dongheyang people judged the rise of Qinhe River according to the distance between Tieniu and the river.

At that time, dongheyang old and young will recite such a folk song: River plus five feet, muluan hundred ordinary. The river surface adds one Zhang, the Mu Luan water enters the ridge. There are no voles outside the city. Add two feet to the river, and the city gate will be blocked by Mu Luan. Three feet above the river, the flood hit the city wall. The river rises to tie Niu heel, Mu Luan is urgent, the person hides light. The river rose to the cattle, not to see Mu Luan, to see the ocean.

It takes three days for Qinhe River to flow from dongheyang village in Shanxi Province to muluandian in Henan Province, while it takes only two days for dongheyang people to take a shortcut to muluandian on foot. Pedestrians only arrive one day earlier than the flood. Although the time of this day is not enough, under the condition of underdeveloped communication in ancient times, it can make people in muluandian get information in advance, prepare for flood control in advance, and reduce unnecessary losses. The people of Shanxi and Henan have already reached an agreement on reporting the water situation. Both sides abide by their promises and act according to the agreement.

Every year during the flood season, people from dongheyang will send people to monitor the water situation of Qinhe river beside Tieniu. They will take turns on duty day and night, and send people to report the water situation in muluandian, Henan Province on foot according to the water situation signs agreed in advance.

Muluandian people are very grateful to the messengers from dongheyang for their hospitality. Only when Hongfeng arrives can the messengers return to show their sincerity. In order to express their gratitude, muluandian always brings a group of people to express their sympathy every December. Dongheyang people received the guests in a grand way. We talk about the past and the present together, and we talk about friendship with each other. The people of the two places get along with each other in this way and pass it on from generation to generation.

Until now, when the old people talk about the story of the water situation in the iron ox newspaper, it seems that the scenes of the ancient urchins in dongheyang riding on the back of the Ox are still flashing in front of their eyes, and the sweet nursery rhyme echoes in their ears

Big iron ox, report the water situation. I'll send a letter to muluan,

Muluan quickly blocked the city gate and was angry with the old goblins in the river.

Centennial Qilian

There is an ancient building in Guanqiao courtyard of shangfo village, which is unique, gorgeous and elegant. On both sides of the gate of Guanqiao courtyard, rectangular blue stone strips are inlaid. On the right side of the blue stone, there is a inscribed couplet "north water flows south, East and West banks ascend and descend Buddha", while on the left side of the blue stone, there is no word. What's the matter?

It is said that in the reign of Jiaqing or Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the traffic outside the west gate of shangfo village was very difficult

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