Chen Jia Zhuang Xiang, Wutai County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province

Chenjiazhuang Township

Chenjiazhuang township is located in the southeast of Wutai County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, bordering Pingshan in Hebei Province in the East, Yu County in Yangquan County in the south, Baijiazhuang town and Shenxi Township in the west, Rucun Township and gaohongkou Township in the north. There are 47 administrative villages with a population of 14766 and a labor force of 3316. Dongyu walnut is one of the most excellent walnut varieties in China. It is divided into two types: Jiahe and Mian. Mian is the best. It is loved by the public for its thin skin, big size, crisp kernel and delicious taste.

General situation of hometown

Dongyu walnut is one of the most excellent varieties in China, which can be divided into two types: Jiahe and Mian, and Mian is the best. It is loved by the public for its thin skin, large size, crisp and delicious kernel. The total area is 286 square kilometers, accounting for one tenth of the total area of the county. With an average altitude of 700 meters, it is the best area for the growth of various crops and the cultivation of dried fruits. The cultural resources, regional advantages and industrial characteristics are very obvious here. The first is the cultural advantage. It is the hometown of the three provincial leaders, and is famous for its business owners and celebrities. There is not only the Buddhist culture of Wutai Mountain, the world cultural heritage, but also the red culture of the old revolutionary base area of Wutai County. The second is the characteristic planting advantage. It is a traditional dry fruit economic forest base, rich in Zanthoxylum bungeanum, walnut, persimmon, etc., with an annual output of more than 1 million kg of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, walnut, persimmon, etc., forming a characteristic and efficient three-dimensional planting mode of forest grain intercropping with an output value of more than 2500 yuan per mu, which has been affirmed and praised by Xinzhou Agricultural Bureau. Bean planting area of more than 15000 mu, accounting for about 70% of the total cultivated land in the township. The third is the advantage of tourism resources with Wulong Lake as the center, and the development prospect is very broad.

Historical celebrities

Hurun: the God of wealth in Dongyu village, Wutai

Hurun, born in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, is the "God of treasure" in Dongyu village, Chenjiazhuang Township, Wutai County, Shanxi Province. According to the family tree of Hu family, Hurun, runye, whose name is Binyang, is a young man who lives in Dongyu. He is thrifty and thrifty. Runda is generous. Therefore, he has many merits in temples and roads. He has accumulated virtues to help poor families. Villagers feel his merits and virtues and put his statue in the east corner of the Great Buddha Hall of Futian temple, Dousi temple. After his death, he was buried in the west mountain of gengjiazhuang. Hurun is famous in the area of Yicheng River and Hutuo River. Many of his stories are still popular among the people. He is a historical celebrity.

Legend of characters

Growing up Hurun was born in a poor family. When he was young, he began to work and could endure hardships. He often went to Yangmen mountain in the northeast of the village to cultivate the loess land. At that time, there was abundant rainfall. Every year, the millet grew well with big ears and full grains. One autumn, the millet was again enjoying a bumper harvest. Before harvest, he often found a big bull carrying a sharp shoulder to eat millet. When he found it, he drove the cattle to guangyingou He was very angry and decided to catch the bull. So he squatted in the field all day and waited until the bull came to his field to eat millet. He rushed to catch the bull and saw that he was about to catch it. The bull disappeared in the field. He was very strange. He immediately marked the place where the bull went and went back to fetch it Spade, dig to see, not long, dug out a large urn of Yuanbao, from then on made a fortune. After getting married, Hurun gave birth to seven sons and two daughters. After he made a fortune, he built a lot of houses and planned to build an alley for one son, so that every son and his descendants would have enough and spacious houses. The plan is very grand. When the seventh lane was half finished, one of his daughters asked him, "how can you sell it when you build so many lanes?" when he heard that, his heart immediately cooled. "Ah, there's a black sheep in the family," he thought. So they stopped repairing, and six and a half lanes have been handed down to this day. In many mountain villages, such neat streets as Dongyu village are rare in ancient times. Futian temple is one kilometer away from Dongyu. It was built in the Tang Dynasty. It is divided into front temple and back temple. It has seven courtyards and more than 90 houses. It covers an area of nearly 20 mu. It has 75 painted sculptures and more than 400 square meters of murals. It has high artistic value. The Bajiao Pavilion and the Great Buddha Hall are well-known far and near. Among them, the four statues of the heavenly kings in the Bajiao Pavilion, with eight monsters on their feet, are majestic and tall, which are also unprecedented in Mount Wutai. The whole temple complex, with double eaves and bucket arches, carved beams and painted buildings, red pillars and green tiles covering the roof, is dotted with several ancient acacia trees, which makes it more simple, profound, rich and elegant. The April 18th Temple Fair held here every year is one of the four ancient fairs in Wutai County. When Hurun arrived, some houses were dilapidated, leaky or even collapsed due to the age. Hurun paid for the maintenance of the whole temple. The total cost was a bucket of four liters of silver. The construction workers wanted money. Hurun asked his men to pry up nine bricks on the floor of the Great Buddha Hall and dig out a bucket of four liters of silver on the spot. Dousi (the homonym of Dousi) got its name from this. In memory of the "God of wealth" who had made great contributions to the restoration of the temple, posterity put his statue on the side of the East eighteen Arhats in the Great Buddha Hall. Tungtong Grottoes is located in the Hutuo River near Shuiwan village in the southeast of Wutai County. Before the tungtong Grottoes was built in Hurun, it was a natural moat for east-west traffic. In ancient times, there was a lot of rain and a lot of river water. There were two flood seasons a year, one was ice flood in spring, and the other was flood season in rainy season. Every flood season, the river on the river bed rose sharply, and the flood was turbulent On the nearby river, there are cliffs tens of feet high, which make people dizzy. Pedestrians can't climb and walk in the past. The two flood seasons have made it difficult for local people to travel for nearly half a year. How many generations of people with lofty ideals can only stand here, sighing at the river and sighing at the cliff. The grottoes are more than 30 kilometers away from Dongyu village. It is said that one year, one of Hurun's daughters was escorted by a long-term worker and went out to visit relatives. When they arrived at the grottoes, it was late and it rained heavily. Soon after, mountain torrents broke out and the river surged. Hurun's daughter and the long-term worker couldn't cross the river, go around the mountain and retreat. They had to stay in the nearby Yatang for a night. The next day he left for his relatives. When he came back, Hurun found out what happened to his daughter's journey and asked her carefully, "he didn't take you..." "When you see a fire, you can't stop it," the spoiled daughter replied. When Hurun heard this, he almost fainted with anger. This made Hurun decide to dig through the grottoes, so that passers-by would not have to worry about crossing the river and walk directly from the grottoes. So he hired a stonecutter and ordered him to dig a bucket of dregs for a bucket of rice. Finally, he dug through the grottoes and turned the natural moat into a thoroughfare. The two grottoes are about three meters high, three meters wide and nearly thirty meters long. Mules and horses can carry things through them. This is a merit of Hurun for the benefit of the world, which has been praised by people all the time. One of Hurun's in laws is from gaohongkou village, which is 36 kilometers away from Dongyu village. At a banquet, after two cups of wine, the in laws get excited. With the spirit of wine, Hurun says to his in laws, "I'll be able to row to gaohongkou.". Not to be outdone, the in laws said, "I can row bags of red beans all the way to Dongyu village.". It can be seen that Hurun was rich at that time. Before he was born, Hu Yun buried his huge sum of silver in guangyingou, which is located behind the mountain of Dongyu village. It is popular among the people that "nine hemp boxes (small at two ends, big in the middle) and eighteen urn (silver) can sell the cows, not guangyingou.". The boundary starts from Yatang gate in the East and ends at Heishitou about one kilometer in the West. People have been searching for silver from generation to generation, but they have never heard of anyone. Hu Run also built a shelter on fenghuangtoushang, a place in the northwest of the village. It was used to live in summer in order to survive the scorching sun. Nowadays, there are still some millstones left in the shelter.

Hu Tingdong: a family of seven generations of medical education

He graduated from Shanxi Normal School in 1933. He once served as the longest education family in many schools. His family is Hu Tingdong, Dongyu village, Chenjiazhuang township. He has been teaching for five generations from his great grandfather Hu Liqian to his daughter-in-law Li Lihua and daughter Hu Xiaolian. It has been a family of seven generations of medical education. He is proficient in calligraphy, opera, painting, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, musical instruments, stonework, carpentry, medicine planting, scientific farming, etc. seven generations of medical and educational families during the period of the Republic of China, the oldest teacher was Hu Liqian of Dongyu village. He taught in private schools from about 20 years old to 86 years old. He was still teaching in waihefu village primary school and died that year. Wutai County, dongyukou Township, Hu Tingdong is an educational family of five generations. From Hu Tingdong's great grandfather to his daughter, he has been teaching for five generations, including his daughter-in-law and son-in-law. Hu Liqian (also known as Jiuxu) was born in 1854 and died in 1939. Guangxu young scholar, love teaching, engaged in education all his life, first taught in private school, then in primary school. Hu Liqian is famous for his rigorous scholarship and tireless teaching. We should also be good at medicine. He warned his descendants that if they have knowledge, they should not be officials or businessmen. Teaching, practicing medicine, educating and rescuing people are the most ideal careers. Under the influence of his education, teaching and practicing medicine were handed down from generation to generation. At the age of 86, he was still teaching in waihefu village and died that year. He had three sons, the eldest and the third of whom were engaged in education all their lives. The second son died less. Hu Jun (also known as Zheng Bing), the eldest son of Hu Liqian, was born in 1875 and died in 1943. He was a primary school teacher all his life. Teaching is hard and serious. He is good at acupuncture and moxibustion. He has three sons and one daughter. In addition to the second son, who works in agriculture and medicine, the eldest son, the third son, his daughter and son-in-law (Wu Jiuchang) are all primary school teachers. Hu Weiguo, the third son, died at the age of 19 in his teaching post in minchawan village. Hu Ju (also known as Zhengchun), the third son of Hu Liqian, was born in the 18th year of Guangxu

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