Meihua Town, Changle District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province

Meihua town

Meihua Town, also known as Meihua City, or Meijiang, is on the coast of the sea in the northeast of Changle district. There is a saying of "qianduishan, yinduiling, sanlihuating, Qili plum blossom", so it is called "plum blossom". In 1377, Zhou De, the Marquis of Jiangxia, built Meihua city. There are Zhenhai tower and five stone gates in the city, such as East, West, South, North and water. It is a rare stone city in Fuzhou. In 1559, the Japanese besieged the city and could not attack it for a long time. The people of Meihua finally won.

The coastline of Meihua town is 12 kilometers long. It is a famous ancient town and port in history, and a military fortress in the past dynasties.

Meihua town is a pure fishing town and one of the top ten fishing towns in Fujian Province. Its history can be traced back to the Tang, song and Yuan Dynasties when it was renamed "Fanggui Township xinkaili". In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was called "24 capital Meihua city". It has six professional fishing administrative villages, Meicheng, Meixin, Meidong, Meixi, Meinan and meibei. There are more than 250 fishing boats of various sizes, such as iron shell trawl, custom-made net and Zhangfan net , rich in hairtail, cucumber fish, eel, razor clam, clam and other famous high-quality aquatic products. Within the jurisdiction, power, communication, health and financial services facilities are perfect, including one junior middle school, two complete primary schools and one central kindergarten. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Meihua town has made remarkable achievements in the construction of spiritual civilization, political civilization and material civilization. It has won the honorary titles of "model town of double support in Fujian Province", "civilized town in Fujian Province" and "national advanced rural sports town".

In 2017, the administrative area of Meihua town was 1600 hectares, with a permanent population of 13318.

In June 2020, Meihua town was included in the list of Fujian Provincial Rural Governance demonstration towns.

Historical evolution

Jinfeng commune was established in 1958, Meihua commune was established in 1961, and the town was changed in 1984. In 1997, Meidong, Meixi, Meinan, meibei, Meixin and Meicheng village committees were under its jurisdiction.

Get honor

On June 29, 2020, Meihua town was listed in the list of Fujian Provincial Rural Governance demonstration towns.

Natural scenery

Beautiful natural landscape of plum blossom: "eel Beach" wetland is full of grass and migratory birds, which together with the sea, forest, beach, islands and reefs constitute a beautiful seaside scenery. The newly excavated "patriotic stele" and "upright official stele" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the newly opened "Jiangjunshan Park" and "Meihu friendship building" in 2001, as well as gardens for agricultural sightseeing, such as mountains, forests, beaches, islands and reefs. These potential tourism resources are a great treasure of coastal tourism development in the future.

economic development

Meihua town is a pure fishing town with developed offshore fishing industry. It has 252 ships of different sizes, and the annual seafood production is more than 100000 tons, accounting for more than 70% of the city's aquatic product production. It is one of the top ten fishing towns in Fujian Province. The major seafood products are Portunus and Anchovy. Zhujia, cuttlefish, hairtail, etc. are aquatic products trading bases in Fuzhou. Around the fishery enterprises, there are 49 industrial and commercial registered enterprises in the town, among which the freezing and refrigeration enterprises play a leading role, with a daily freezing capacity of 250 tons and a daily refrigeration capacity of 2500 tons. It is one of the important freezing and refrigeration bases in Fuzhou.

Meihua town net factory is the largest net manufacturer in Fuzhou City, and also the designated manufacturer of provincial construction safety net. The 50 hectare Taoyuan Industrial Zone has complete water, electricity, road and communication facilities and favorable conditions. More than 10 Chinese and foreign enterprises have settled in the industrial zone. There are more than 700 kinds of marine fish such as hairtail, Pseudosciaena crocea, eel and pomfret, and more than 100 kinds of crustaceans such as prawn, hairy shrimp and Portunus. There are dozens of shellfish and algae products such as oyster, clam, Sinonovacula constricta, clam, conch and laver in shallow beach. There are grass carp, black carp, silver carp and other 25 kinds of freshwater fish.

Scenery

Playing flute in Meicheng

"Mei Cheng Nong Di" is one of the twelve sceneries of Wu Hang, which has long been well known by people at home and abroad.

Meicheng, which lies on the mountain and faces the sea, is not only rich in delicious seafood, but also has pleasant scenery. Thousands of years have passed since ancient times. In the era of hard work and wisdom, villagers have created their own historical culture by farming, herding and fishing on the sea, and depicted many popular beautiful legends. The illustration of "playing flute in Meicheng" is one of them: the city was built by the sea in ancient times. Whenever the moon shines at night, the sea breeze blows to the fishing village Meng Chun, the gap between the bamboo pole whistling, such as the sound of a dragon, such as the sound of a flute. According to Changle County annals, there is a picture of Meicheng playing flute. Fifty miles to the northeast of the county, it is called Meijiang. There is a city in it. It confronts Dinghai, and it is a town. Islands scattered, disc around, thousands of hectares of Hongming, do not know where it is, looking at Ryukyu, smoke several points. Every night, the moon is crystal clear, the sky and water are the same color, and several bagpipes are like listening to the Dragon singing. When he passed by Qingxi River, he invited general Heng to take charge of sannongye in Hu bed, and suppressed Li Muqiu's deep competition to crack the stone? It truly explains the origin of making flute in Meicheng.

Plum blossom City

Built around the mountain, the peak is filled with stone mu, towering several feet higher, engraved with "Longdong stone". In 1377, Zhou Dexing, the Marquis of Jiangxia, was ordered to build the city, and Li Rong, the commander of Fuzhou right guard, was appointed to supervise the construction. Facing the sea in three directions, it is built in Shagang in the South and stretches for three miles. The city is eight feet high, six feet wide and 648 feet high. The women's walls are 1220, occupying four floors and twenty Wopu. There are three gates, the east gate to the sea, the south gate to the mountain, and the west gate to the water. The "yongwa city" is built outside the gate, covering an area of about Mu, with side gates. When the tide comes, the boat reaches the bottom of the city. In the city, the terraces and rocks are used to build military squatters, and the walls are connected with the houses. They are all the houses of the soldiers and the people.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620), Japanese pirates plagiarized everywhere, and Meicheng refused to defend the whole city. In the early Qing Dynasty, the sea atmosphere was blazing again, and bingshen (1656) was slaughtered. In 1681, the Emperor Kangxi moved the residents to the mainland, and in 1679, he ordered the restoration of his native land. The city is under the pressure of years of sand.

In the 58th year of Kangxi (1719), Wei Liangzuo, the county magistrate, received money to rebuild the inner wall (commonly known as Xincheng). Yin Fengwu, magistrate of Yongzheng 11th year (1733), Dai yongpu, magistrate of Qianlong 10th year (1745), and he Shijun, magistrate of Qianlong 27th year, respectively received money for renovation. After the restoration, there were a lot of people outside the east gate.

Jiaqing Bingchen (1796), pirate forest branches along the river plagiarize, residents with bamboo baskets to do not load solid sand, stacked along the coast, military and civilian joint defense, only then safe. In the song and Yuan Dynasties, the office of the inspector general was on the street. When the city was built, it was transferred to Jiaoshan of Xianqi to set up a plum blossom thousand house office. There were 1540 troops, one Guard commander, one deputy thousand house member, one Zhenfu member, one hundred house member, and thirteen hereditary iron seal officers stationed in Meihua. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, there were many wars, but shangjiesuo yamen Lane still existed.

In Daoguang period, the plum blossom department was changed, and in the spring and Autumn period, the thousand generals took the general guard. The city reaches the Minjiang River in the north, the East China Sea in the East and the Minjiang River in the West.

Meihua middle school was built by silting up Bailiu lake. The water flow was narrow, leaving two small gullies, Bailiu leakage and Dagou leakage. Meicheng has been repaired and damaged for more than 600 years, and the last renovation (1762) is more than 200 years ago. The women's wall, the war building and most of the walls have collapsed. But the Dongmen area is still well preserved; the east-west and north-west remnant walls can still be connected by bumps and bumps, buried in the cover of the occupied city, wild grass and rattan, and garbage; careful observation of the majestic wind of Weizhen sea area in that year still exists; although the two walls in the South have been destroyed, the base site can be found. The terrain of the ancient city of Meihua is very high. You have to climb up the stone steps and turn to the high and low stone road to enter the only main road of the ancient city of Meihua. It is said that the main road is only two meters wide. On the street, old and new houses appear alternately. The old houses, with black eaves and white walls, still show the style of the ancient city. However, they are not protected. Most of them are dilapidated, with empty buildings and ruins. Only the water wells at the entrance are permanent, and there are round and square entrances. Today, only a section of wall is left, connecting the gate. The gate was built of stone, arched and still solid. An old woman under the gate set up a stall, and beside the gate was pasted with the words "theater, welcome to watch". The first part of the city wall is covered with clusters of green climbing vines, which stretch down. The city wall extends to the side of the central school, on which the school wall is built. Block stone, because of age, years of erosion, stone smooth incomparable, only the loss of life on the moss.

At the end of the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, plum blossom was changed into a village because of the pressure of sand. He Shijun, the county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, received money to renovate the flute four times. The last time was in 1762, when he Shijun, the magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, renovated the flute and marked it as one of the twelve scenes of Changle. There is he Shijun's poem as evidence: the city of Doucheng is hanging in the plum blossom cluster, and it is surrounded by water and mountains. Flute a rely on the pavilion, Qingyin several songs into the sky. When you are excited, you can hide your admiration. When you are excited, you can blow away your resentment. I like the bright moon and the calm wind. There is a sentence in the building recalling Qinglian. Looking up, the ancient city of Meihua, which is close to the mountains and faces the sea, is a little old. It seems that it has been standing for hundreds of years despite the wind. Its geographical location determines that it is inextricably linked with the war, and almost every historic site and story is full of swords and swords. Reminiscence of the past: an ancient temple can be seen at the corner of the Huyou road. On the Temple Square in the big character book: spoon Shengjing forest palace. This is a temple built to commemorate the forest where straw sandals retreated from Japanese pirates hundreds of years ago. Linwei (1528-1564) was the Marquis of Meihua city in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. When the Japanese invaders pressed the border, the plum blossom city was in a hurry. Lin weiqi, disguised as a peddler, sneaks out of the city by the path to sell 30-40 cm long straw sandals. This move was surprised by the Japanese pirates' leaders and asked what the use of such large straw sandals was. Lin Wei pretends that the soldiers and civilians in Meihua city are tall and strong, and this kind of straw sandals is specially made for them. He takes this opportunity to pretend to reveal it, but in fact exaggerates the military deployment in the city

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