Jintan Town, Daming County, Hebei Province

Jintan Town

Jintan Zhen is one of the famous ancient towns in China and a famous historical and cultural town in Hebei Province. It is located in the area where the ancient "Yanghu" is located. It gathers villages in the Han Dynasty and was once the seat of "Yuancheng county" ruled by "Yangping county". It is located 16 kilometers northeast of Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province, with a total area of 60.65 square kilometers. The town government is located in Jinnan village. Weihe River in the west, Shenxian County in Shandong Province in the East, Longwangmiao town in the South and Hongmiao Township in the north. National Highway 106 runs through the north and south, Jinfeng highway, Wanjin highway, shuncong highway and Handa Dalian Expressway connect the East and the west respectively.

General situation

Jintan Zhen is located 16 kilometers northeast of Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province. It is adjacent to Shenxian County in Shandong Province in the East and Weihe River in the west, with an area of 60.65 square kilometers (2017) and a population of 52100 (2017). It has jurisdiction over 23 administrative villages and the town government is located in Jinnan village. Jing Kai (Feng) highway transit.

Historical evolution

Jintan township was built in 1953, commune was changed in 1958, and town was changed in 1984. Shangmatou township was incorporated in January 1996. In 1997, it covers an area of 60.6 square kilometers and has a population of 41000. It has jurisdiction over 23 administrative villages including Jinnan, Jinzhong, Jindong, Jinbei, tofu lane, Jiaozhuang, Shawo temple, donglonghua, xilonghua, zhonglonghua, houxiao, qianxiao, Xiaozhang, shangmatou, Xinzhuang, Niangniang Temple, shundaodian, Yaochang, Chengzhuang, shijiazhai, beilizhuang, Huangzhuang and Zhengzhai.

economic development

In 2011, the gross national product of the town was 106.56 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 1.74 million yuan, the investment in social fixed assets was 1.24 million yuan, the per capita net income of rural residents was 4953 yuan, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 5125 yuan, and the total output of peanuts reached 9095 tons. The main project of the new residential building in shundaodian village has been completed, providing 150 residential units for 1300 people. 38534 people participated in the new rural cooperative medical system, and the participation rate was 95%. 17000 people participated in the new rural endowment insurance, with the participation rate of 85%. 354 farmers over 60 years old who met the conditions for receiving the pension were paid on time, with the payment rate of 100%. agriculture is mainly grain production, agriculture is the pillar industry of farmers' income, and the main crops are wheat, corn, peanut, cotton, etc. The town Party committee and government has six functional departments, including family planning office, party and government comprehensive office, social affairs office, comprehensive management office, economic development office and urban and rural construction office, and four business units, namely rural social security center, civil affairs center, financial center and judicial office.

Origin of town name

Jintan Town is located on the East Bank of Weihe River, 17.8 kilometers northeast of Daming County in Hebei Province. According to the records of Daming County annals, it used to be a ferry of Weihe River. Later, it gathered as a village. It was named Xiaotan because it was on the beach. "Xiaotan town is located in the northeast of the county. It's thirty miles away from each other. There are nearly ten thousand registered households, and the water passes through the road." (the story of Xiaotan town floating bridge), "Weihe River was guided by the ancient Qing and Qi rivers, Baigou in the Han Dynasty, Yongji in the Sui Dynasty, Yuhe in the song and Yuan Dynasties, Weihe in the Ming Dynasty." (Annals of Anlan in Jifu) especially after dredging and digging Yongji canal (a part of the Grand Canal) by Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, the river transportation was busy and the boats and boats were converging, which gradually developed into a big market town. The village has a lot of shops and prosperous business. Every day on the first, third, sixth and eighth day of the lunar calendar is the day of the market. It can be said that there is a small collection in two days, a large collection in three days and four collections in ten days. Just like the name of the village, it is a place where one party gathers money. With the prosperity of river transportation, merchants gathered here and towns flourished. The prosperity of Jintan Town was formed in the Yuan Dynasty at the latest. During the Ming Dynasty, water transport was carried out in Yongle. An organization was set up in Xiaotan town to take charge of water transport. Because Jintan Town "has Heluo in the south, Yanzhao in the north, Qilu in the East, Gongsong in the west, and boats in the west, which make it a city.". Therefore, we set up some departments in Jintan Town to supervise the grain transportation in Henan, Dongchangfu (Liaocheng) and Dezhou. Since then, the inspection department has been set up in succession to be responsible for maintaining public order, and the tax department is responsible for collecting taxes. Due to the siltation of the river, which hinders the water transport, a member of Yuancheng county's chief book was set up to be stationed in Jintan Town to dredge the river. According to the villagers, there are two or three thousand boat gangs guarding Jintan every year. There are nearly 100 shops, silver shops, pawnshops, hotels and so on in the town. It is a prosperous and prosperous place. In the late Ming Dynasty, due to the invasion of Tatars, Jintan Town, as an important place of Pingfan in Daming Prefecture, began to build a village wall. It has five Gates: North gate, east gate, Southeast gate, South Gate and west gate. The wall base is three or four feet, and there are crenels on it, which is completely the model of Daming city. After more than 200 years of development, in the Qing Dynasty, water transportation was more developed and commerce was more prosperous. According to the records of Daming County annals, during the reign of Tongzhi, Mao Changxi, the Minister of rites, was ordered to go to Henan to supervise the regiment training. He went down to Xiaotan town of Daming Prefecture along the Henan Province of the Universiade, stopped his boat and went ashore to see the prosperous town. He didn't want to be heard by the local dignitaries and gentry, so he got a grand invitation. Admiring his calligraphy, the gentry boldly proposed a very luxurious wish to ask him to write for the village. However, Mao Changxi, an official calligrapher, never wrote in ink easily. He set himself a "three principles": one is not to leave ink, two is not to leave manuscripts, and three is not to leave money. For his calligraphy works, Mao Changxi only allowed "two hours on the wall". There is a saying that "the book is only two hours, the text is only one season, and they are all burned in the furnace". Therefore, it is not easy to ask him to write. Perhaps because Mao Changxi was touched by the prosperous scene of Xiaotan Town, he was unexpectedly generous and happily agreed to the request of the town. He saw that the merchant ships shuttled here, the shops were numerous, the merchants' business was prosperous, and they were fighting for money every day, so he took the meaning of "gold in sand" and wrote down the word "Jintan Town". Unfortunately, his ink still can not be handed down, and "Jintan Town" has a good meaning of the name passed down, Xiaotan town gradually faded out of people's language, "Jintan Town" name more and more sound. The main block of Jintan Town is Qinglong Street in the middle of the town, which meanders from beizhaimen to nanzhaimen. In the 1980s, the walls were demolished, and the remains of the gates and walls still exist. The whole street of Qinglong Street basically maintains the original appearance of the commercial street in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. There are many shops on both sides, and there is a strong ethnic flavor. Now it has entered into it, which has a feeling of returning to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The ancient buildings in the middle section of Qinglong Street are well preserved. The existing cultural relics include Jifu Temple (now Jinbei Hui Primary School, with inscriptions of Tianqi in Ming Dynasty and Huang Liji in Chongzhen Dynasty), Yuan Dynasty mosque in Hebei Province, guolongzhen memorial hall, the first women's primary school at the junction of Hebei, Shandong and Henan, Temple of fire, household branch, Shanshan guild hall, and ancient shops in late Qing Dynasty.

Ancient shops in Qinglong Street

Time honored shops in Jintan Town with a long history

Centennial shop tells of Centennial glory, how to grasp the opportunity to continue to carry forward

Jintan Town, as a millennium old town, has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and merchants have gathered since ancient times. When you walk into Qinglong Street and look at the rows of shops with blue bricks and green tiles, you may ask carefully: in the past, there must have been a lot of traffic, bustling and bustling all day long. Now, all the shops are closed. Where is the former prosperity? How many time-honored shops in Jintan Town are still handed down from history?
The answer is regrettable. Nearly 100 shops along national highway 106 are all "young", not even a hundred year old shop. Most of the shops on Qinglong Street are closed, not to mention the ancient shops that have been handed down for hundreds of years.
Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, there were many shops in the ancient town. According to the old man, there were stone lions, stone carved stools, water tanks in front of the shops in Jintan Town. Every lintel had couplets from short to long, which were as numerous as a cow's hair. It could be said that they were the finishing touch of the cultural heritage of the ancient town. The carved door and window patterns were so colorful that it was unimaginable. There were peonies and magpies in the plum vase There are so many beautiful shops, such as peacock Kaiping, Phoenix Qilin, Shuanglong Xizhu, traditional flowers, ladies, Huixing lattice, Jingzi lattice, fan-shaped lattice and diamond shaped lattice. However, with the eastward movement of the commercial center of Jintan Town and the changes of the times, these ancient shops are gradually disappearing. for our ancient town, time-honored shops mean the profound history of the city, the spiritual wealth of generations, and whether Jintan Town can go further in the future.
It is gratifying and gratifying that in the proposal of the local chronicle Office of Daming County on the tourism planning and development of Jintan Town, the restoration of local time-honored shops in Jintan Town has been clearly put forward and put on the agenda. The time for the rebirth of time-honored shops in Jintan Town is just around the corner.
　　

Time honored shops in Jintan Town have a long history.

According to the record of Xiaotan town floating bridge, "Xiaotan town is located in the northeast of the county. It is thirty miles away from each other. There are nearly ten thousand registered households, and the water passes through the road." "Heluo in the south, Yanzhao in the north, Qilu in the East, Gongsong in the west, boats in the west, and the people and things in Yin, are just like a city.". Jintan Town is located in the north and south traffic arteries, and also convenient for land and water. Since ancient times, it has become a famous Distribution Center for all kinds of goods, especially grain. At that time, there were a lot of food shops and merchants, which promoted the development of all walks of life. At that time, there were 36 lines in Jintan Town, and there were many shops. According to the old people in the village, they lived in Jintan Town every year There are two or three thousand boat gangs, and nearly 100 shops, banks, pawnshops and hotels in the town. It is a prosperous and prosperous place. According to records, Zhang Jia's old drugstore is a folk family drugstore established in Jintan Town of Daming Prefecture by Zhang's ancestors at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It is a business and drugstore Integrating Medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and medical equipment. It has not only excellent medical skills, but also a good reputation

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