Xigou Township, Zhangwan District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Xigou Township

Xigou township of Zhangwan district is located in the southwest of Shiyan City, connecting Dachuan town of Maojian district and Damu town of Fangxian County in the East, Yeda township of Yunyang District in the south, Huaguo Street office in the north and Xicheng Development Zone in the West. In 1987, the former Changping Township and Xianggong Township were merged into Xigou township. It has a land area of 113.52 square kilometers (2017), 9 villages, 1566 households and 2920 people (2017), 133.83 hectares of arable land and 11120 hectares of forest land. It is a national ecological township.

brief introduction

Xigou township is rich in human and natural landscapes, such as Huangtu hump Waterfall Scenic Spot, gongjiagou primeval forest natural landscape, Hongyan ancient village, xianggongting Zhoushan natural scenery, Donggou Millennium Baiguoshu, Shazhou Shimen primeval forest, etc., which create good conditions for the construction of eco-tourism. In recent years, Xigou township has made great efforts to develop tourism resources, attracting a lot of investment or investment. The transportation is smooth, the network system is gradually popularized, and many star rated farmhouse hotels have emerged, creating good tourism conditions for tourists. Xigou township has excellent air and is the natural oxygen bar in Shiyan. It is rich in water resources, and many fishing enthusiasts often visit it. Xigou Township holds tourism culture festival every year, and the development of tourism remains to be seen. Xigou township has unique forest resources. At present, it has formed nearly 200 hectares of chestnut, tea and kiwifruit bases, 4.7 hectares of nursery bases, 200 hectares of economic fruit bases such as pear jujube, papaya and American grey plum, and formed characteristic villages such as Changping, Guofeng persimmon village and Xianggong pear jujube village. in recent years, with the goal of "deepening reform, optimizing structure, consolidating foundation and promoting development", Xigou township has given full play to the advantages of mountain farms and human resources, overcome many difficulties such as natural disasters, made great efforts, blazed new trails, and promoted the economic construction and all-round development of social undertakings of the township. In 2003, the total income of rural economy was 25.1109 million yuan, and the per capita net income was 2605 yuan.

famous scenery

Daxigou: the "back garden" of urban residents < br > the area has high mountains and long rivers, rugged and winding, deep valleys, towering ancient trees, cliffs or a clear spring, sometimes surrounded by dangers, and rich cultural landscape, natural landscape and ecological resources.
Daxigou is a magical place. From the primeval forest, a stream of mountain spring rises from the Qinling Mountains and Bashan mountains and runs through the ancient Yunshan mountains to the Hanjiang River. Xigou is another beautiful place. A thousand twists and turns, nine twists and turns, or rippling waves like fairies, or surging waves like galloping horses, the mountains on both sides like Dai, and the fish and shrimp roaming in the streams and pools. Xigou is still an old place. In the arm Bay of Qinling Mountains and Bashan mountains, she sleeps deeply, and lets her outstanding and magnificent appearance hide her boudoir and graceful singing far away from the world. Daxigou is a "natural oxygen bar" in suburb. Walking into Daxigou is like walking into the Peach Blossom Land in Mr. Tao's works.
Driving southward from Xigoukou, a flat road twists and turns between the mountains like a ribbon. The rippling stream is clear to the bottom, and the waterfall flows down to the Longtan, just like the flying flowers and broken jade. Along the way, the ancient trees are towering, vigorous and powerful, and the grotesque rocks are beautiful. Along the way, the ruins of Tingzhou temple, Hongmeng temple, shigu temple and Jiuquan Temple seem to tell the vicissitudes of Daxigou; Facing the stream, qingshizibaixiang, jinranjiaotian, hongyanshanzhai, shoubayan, muzhuqixia, yishukan mountain, lover's Valley, baojinbeiyinren, shigu, yiyixiantian, sanxianshouyuyin, chongtiancao, jiaodingshi, tianzhufeng, longtouyan, Shimen, toad stone, shichuangshi, all show the intricacies of natural creation, and each natural scenic spot contains a legendary story; Changping reservoir, Huangtu Tuofeng waterfall and shenzhoujian tea farm record the process of Xigou people's entrepreneurship and prosperity; the towering gingko trees and vigorous yew trees tell the historical changes of rare species over the past thousand years; and there are countless exotic plants and animals such as peony, peony, lily, Schisandra chinensis, kiwi fruit, musk, Jinji, Huangyang and civet. Here, you can drink mountain wine, eat farmhouse meals, stay in farmhouse, enjoy the simple folk customs of farmhouse, listen to legendary myths and legends, and feel the aura of nature

Introduction to scenic spots

Huangtu waterfall driving about three kilometers south from Xigoukou, you can see a mountain that looks like a hump. The river flows down. This is the scenic area of Huangtu waterfall. Standing at the foot of the waterfall, you can see the river flowing down like a jade belt, like the Milky Way rushing down; hitting on the rocks, like flying flowers and broken jade, flying around, making the whole scenic spot silvery and misty, mixed with the fragrance of soil, which is particularly spectacular. There is a lake under the waterfall. The water is clear. There is a small island with an area of about 2 mu in the center of the lake. The green willows beside the lake are shady. Boating on the lake, fish flying at the bottom of the lake, watching the waterfall flow; fishing on the shore, green willows reflecting the lake, water and sky holding each other, leisurely. Sangpiya folk village continues to move forward, and you can see a mountain like a dragon. Sangpiya folk village stands on the top of the dragon's head, built close to the mountain and surrounded by Xigou River on three sides. Yazi is divided into upper courtyard, front courtyard and back courtyard. Three of them have experienced hundreds of years of history. The architectural style is not only like Pingyao's old residence in Shanxi Province, but also like Zhouzhuang in Jiangsu Province. Although it has experienced hundreds of years of wind invasion and rain erosion, it still retains the solemn and elegant, thick and simple architectural style. Stepping on the stone road of recording history and passing through the winding path gives people a feeling of leading to history. Now the developing sangpiya has radiated the civilization of the times and has a strong historical flavor. shengmayan scenic spot from sangpiya, the river is intercepted by a water storage dam, forming an artificial lake. A villa is built in accordance with the lake. This is the largest leisure resort in Xigou Township, which integrates catering, leisure and entertainment. After dinner, you can go boating, fishing or swimming on the lake, just like a water park.
Youth rural traditional education base driving forward, we came to the youth rural traditional education base. The base is located in the campus of Xigou Township Central Primary School. We collected more than 2000 pieces of representative rural farm tools, living utensils, traditional custom utensils, ancient objects, and unearthed cultural relics. Later, we joined hands with Luo Huadong, a retired teacher of archaeology More than 1000 pieces of production tools and fossils used by primitive people were exhibited. The base has been affirmed by provincial, municipal and district leaders, and has been named as the rural traditional education base of Zhangwan District, the youth moral education activity base of Zhangwan District, and the practice base of Ideological and moral construction of minors in Zhangwan district. This year, on the basis of the original three exhibition rooms, the base will build outdoor operation area (stone grinding operation, weaving operation, farming experience, clay sculpture operation), indoor operation area (operating bellows, windmill, loom, spinning wheel, mousetrap, etc.), antique photography area (wearing coir raincoat, straw sandals, hat, hoe, etc.) and close to the natural area (fishing in the stream, catching crabs, feeding small animals) Animals, etc.), snack tasting area (tasting rural cold firewood hot tofu, tadpole noodles, corn, etc.), accommodation experience area (serving rice, wooden bed, etc.). At present, the construction of the base has been attached great importance by the relevant provincial departments. In the second half of this year, the construction of the complex building for exhibition, operation and teaching of the base will start. Donggou ginkgo tree legend of Donggou ginkgo tree in Donggou village, there is an ancient ginkgo tree with a height of 30 meters, a diameter at breast height of 180 cm, and an age of about 1800 years old. The tree is hollow, and people can lie at the root. When the sun is good, people can see the sun from the hollow. It is called Tongtian eye. There is also a beautiful love legend about this ancient tree.
It is said that a long time ago, there was a Yuanwai named Liu in Donggou. There was a hundred year old ginkgo tree in front of his house. Not far from the tree, there was a sweet water stream whose water level did not drop all the year round. The Yuanwai gave birth to a very clever daughter who could draw anything as soon as she saw it. It's just that I've been weak and sick since I was a child. I have a nickname of sick Xi Shi.
One day when she was sitting at the door, she saw a very handsome young man coming to ask her for water. So she poured a cup of tea from home, and they met. From then on, they met each other every day and talked about everything. Soon they came to the point where they were not married. One day, they were talking happily. The girl suddenly fainted and the young man rushed her home. When she got home, the girl's hands and feet were cold, and she was about to lose her beauty. The young man looked at the girl in silence, suddenly spit out a pearl from his mouth and put it into the girl's mouth. The precious gravel slowly flows into her abdomen. After the girl's abdomen moves a few times, she wakes up. Seeing the young man sitting by the bed, he asked, "did you save me?" the young man nodded his head gently and asked, "how do you feel now?" the girl said, "I feel very good now, and I've never been so relaxed. I'm full of energy. I don't know how many times better than before."
When the young man saw that the girl was well, he got up to say goodbye. The girl asked, "when shall we meet again"? The young man gave a wry smile and said, "today is our last meeting, and we will never meet again.". As soon as the girl heard this, she grabbed the young man's hand and said, "why? I'm afraid my illness will harm you.". The young man said, "no, your illness won't happen again. To tell you the truth, I'm the youngest son of the Dragon King of Donghai. I saw that the girl was lovely, so I came to meet you. Originally, we were destined to be husband and wife for a lifetime. But just now I saw that you fell ill, and I was about to die. I had to use my thousand year old inner alchemy to treat you. And I'm going to change back to my original shape and become a man again

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