Yangcun Town, Longnan City, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Yangcun town

Yangcun Town, belonging to Longnan City, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the southwest of Longnan City on the edge of Jiangxi Province and Guangdong Province. It is adjacent to Wudang town in the East, Lianping County in Guangdong Province in the south, Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve in the West and Jiahu Huashu hot spring in the north, covering an area of 144.43 square kilometers. At the end of 2018, 55935 people registered residence in Yang village. As of June 2020, Yangcun town has one community and 15 administrative villages.

Yangcun town is a key town in China and an economically developed town in Jiangxi Province. Yangcun town is an ancient town with a long history and rich Hakka customs. It retains many houses with Hakka characteristics, including yanyiwei, Taipingqiao and wushiwei, which are key cultural relics protection units in China.

By the end of 2018, there were 7 industrial enterprises in Yangcun town (including one above the designated size) and 6 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Historical evolution

During the period of the Republic of China, Taiping gradually changed its name to Yangcun district and Yangcun township.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Yangcun district was established in October of the same year.

In September 1958, Yangcun people's commune was established.

In 1984, the township and village system was restored, and the Yangcun people's commune was renamed Yangcun township.

On July 28, 1992, Yang village set up a town instead of a township.

administrative division

In 2020, Yangcun town governs 1 community and 15 administrative villages

geographical environment

Location context

Yangcun town is located in the southwest of Longnan City on the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong. It is adjacent to Wudang town in the East, Lianping County in Guangdong Province in the south, Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve in the West and Jiahu Huashu hot spring in the north. It covers an area of 144.43 square kilometers.

topographic features

In Yangcun Town, hills and mountains crisscross. Along both sides of Taiping River and its tributaries, there are river valleys and plains. The terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. Mountains account for 77.5% of the area, especially low hills and river valleys and plains. The highest is xianrenzhang, 1036 meters above sea level; the lowest is Chetian village, 310 meters above sea level.

climate

Yangcun town has a mild climate and four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 18.5 ℃, the annual extreme low temperature is - 5.3 ℃, and the annual extreme high temperature is 37 ℃. The frost free period is 282 days. The annual rainfall is 1617.9 mm, which is concentrated from April to June.

population

At the end of 2018, 55935 people registered residence in Yang village.

Economics

By the end of 2018, there were 7 industrial enterprises in Yangcun town (including one above the designated size) and 6 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Transportation

Yangcun town is 2km away from national highway 105, and has provincial highway henghuang line running through the town from east to west, Daguang Expressway running through north to south, and there are exits in the town.

History and culture

cultural relics and historic sites

Yangcun town has many houses with Hakka characteristics, including yanyiwei, Taipingqiao and wushiwei, which are national key cultural relics protection units.

Hakka culture

Yangcun town is a pure Hakka town with the most distinctive Hakka characteristics. It preserves the rich and simple Hakka customs, inherits and carries forward the Hakka customs of southward migration from the Central Plains, and has different customs in marriage, big and small seasons. Yangcun town is also the core area of Yangcun national Hakka cultural and ecological protection zone established by Longnan City.

Intangible cultural heritage

Taiping Dragon Boat Association, Jiangxi provincial intangible cultural heritage, was founded in Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 500 years. Taiping Dragon Boat Festival is a unique activity of Yangcun Dragon Boat Festival and a grand festival of Hakka people in Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces.

Taiping Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk activity of offering sacrifices to the Dragon God and praying for good luck in the form of dragon boat race. The Taiping Dragon Boat Festival in Longnan is held from the first to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. So far, traditional folk activities such as worshiping the Dragon God, inviting the Dragon God, Dragon Boat Festival, scavenging evil spirits, finals, cruises, and the return of the Dragon God have been preserved. The "Dragon Boat meeting" held on the third day of May is also called the "thank you banquet" and the "thousand people banquet" to reward the donors from all walks of life.

Folk customs

Yangcun town has its own unique festival culture, such as "dagonghui" and "October Dynasty", and Hakka art culture, such as "roller coaster" of Hakka folk songs.

famous scenery

Taiping Bridge

Taiping Bridge, located on the Taiping River in the north of Yangcun Town, Longnan County, Jiangxi Province, is a double-layer overlapping composite stone arch bridge with two holes, three piers and four arches. It is 50 meters long and has a unique shape with four-way pavilions. It is a key cultural relic protection unit under national protection.

Taiping Bridge was built by Wang Shouren, the censor of zuojindu and governor of nangan in Ming Dynasty, after suppressing Taiping peasant uprising and Sanli peasant uprising in Guangdong Province, when he returned to Ganzhou prefecture to show the world's peace.

Taiping Bridge is a living fossil to interpret the unique regional culture of Gannan area, and also an important material material representing the superb architectural art of ancient China. It carries the unique Hakka culture and simple folk customs.

Yan Yiwei

Yanyiwei, a national key cultural relic protection unit, is located in Yangcun Town, Longnan County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Yan Yi Wai is a four story brick wood structure square Wai. Yanyiwei was built in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty. The construction period took 27 years, and it has been completed for more than 300 years. The thickness of the outer wall is 1.5 meters and the height is 14.3 meters. With the gate and hall as the central axis, 34 houses are built symmetrically on each floor, with a total of 136 rooms. Yan Yi Wai was built by Lai Fuzhi, a local rich man. The name of Yan Yi in the book of mountains and seas is "Yan Yi", which means to be farsighted and the descendants of Rong Chang.

As one of the representatives of traditional Hakka architecture in Gannan, yanyiwei contains rich Hakka folk culture. The site selection and gate orientation of yanyiwei reflect the Fengshui culture, the architectural structure reflects the defensive psychology of the Hakka people, the spatial layout reflects the clan concept of the people in the enclosure, and the worship of various gods confirms the religious beliefs of the Hakka people. These are the categories of Hakka folk customs, which provide a place for the field investigation and research of Hakka folk customs.

In 2001, as an ancient building of Qing Dynasty, yanyiwei was listed in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

Wushiwei

Wushiwei, also known as panshiwei, is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is located in Yangcun village, Yangcun Town, Longnan County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. It was first built in the 10th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1583) and completed in the 38th year of Wanli (1610). It took 28 years and consumed 1200 liang of silver. It was built by Lai Jingxing, the ancestor of Lai family. It got its name because there is a block of black stone like a toad in front of the house. Wushi sits in the southeast and faces northwest. It is round in front, square inside and round outside. Its surface is 52.4 meters wide and its depth is 42.3 meters. It covers an area of 2400 square meters. The wall is about 9 meters high, surrounded by four turrets. In front of the wall are Heping, Zhaobi and sun moon shaped ponds. The wood carvings, brick carvings and gables in the enclosure are exquisitely made, and the gray sculptures of lions and elephants on the corner of the roof are of high historical and artistic value.

Wushiwei, with its semicircle formed by the front and back circle, is unique in many Hakka houses with different styles. Wushiwei is one of the oldest Hakka houses in South Jiangxi. It is of great value to study the interaction and development of Hakka houses in South Jiangxi, North Guangdong and West Fujian.

In 2012, wushiwei, as a world cultural heritage site declared by Gannan Weiwu, was listed in China's world cultural heritage preliminary list by the State Administration of cultural heritage.

Honorary title

In September 2013, Yangcun town became one of the top 100 central towns in Jiangxi Province.

In September 2014, Yangcun town became the second batch of national key towns.

In January 2018, Yangcun town was rated as "economically developed town in Jiangxi Province".

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