Chaoyang Town, Shouyang County, Shanxi Province

Chaoyang

Chaoyang town is located in the hinterland of Shouyang County, Shanxi Province. It is the seat of Shouyang County Party committee and government. It is the political, economic and cultural center and transportation hub of the whole county.

essential information

Chaoyang town was formed in 2001 by merging Chengguan Township, Qilihe Township and Chengguan town. It is adjacent to yinlingzhi town and Danfeng city in the East, nanyanzhu town in the west, Mashou town in the south, wenjiazhuang town and Zongai town in the north

The land area is 177 square kilometers, and the cultivated land is 71355 mu. It has jurisdiction over 15 administrative villages, 55 villager groups and 6 community neighborhood committees. The resident population was 34268 (2017). There are 74 grassroots party branches (55 in rural areas, 6 in communities and 13 in organs) and 1541 party members. There are 144 rural cadres (22 administrative village branch secretaries and directors, and 8 Village branch secretaries and directors). There are 79 branch committee cadres, 65 village committee cadres and 36 community cadres. There are 155 cadres and workers in the town government [28 veteran cadres, 66 in-service cadres, 17 public welfare posts, 14 temporary employees (5 in the rural accounting service center and 5 in the demolition office), and 30 college student village officials (13 in the rural areas and 17 in the community)]. Among them, there are 12604 non-agricultural households with 31161 people, including 1460 enterprises of various types and 12000 employees, including 28 collective enterprises, 227 private enterprises and 1205 individual enterprises. It is the largest town in the county.

History and culture

In the east of Shouyang County, there stands a towering building, which is named Chaoyang Pavilion because of "sunrise". Chaoyang pavilion was first built in the park in 1517 (the 12th year of Zhengde of Ming Dynasty). It is a stone based three-story wooden structure about 100 feet high. The main building is built on the base with corner columns and brackets. It has a unique structure and a strong scale. It is said that "Jinzhou lion Yingzhou tower is inferior to Shouyang Chaoyang Pavilion". For a long time, Chaoyang Pavilion, as the symbol of Shouyang County, carries many beautiful myths and legends, and becomes the cultural totem of Shouyang County's historical spirit, humanistic symbol and spiritual home. Chaoyang town is named after Chaoyang Pavilion. It is the political, economic and cultural center of Shouyang County, the "hometown of the emperor" and the "hometown of longevity". With beautiful mountains, beautiful waters and outstanding people, it has always been a place of good fortune and prosperity.

local customs and practices

As one of the four categories of folklore, "literary folklore" is not only an important aspect of a nation's traditional culture, but also the source of a nation's traditional culture. Shouyang folk art has a long history, rich and brilliant, and the Shehuo custom is one of the most eye-catching flowers.

Shehuo, in fact, is the popular fire of Shouyang people. The old Shouchuan land has a long-standing folk saying that "the common people, to be happy, to be able to sing and make a prosperous." Of course, due to the influence of region, history, economy and transportation, folk customs have the characteristics of "different customs in ten li, different customs in a hundred Li". For example, some places are called "zhuangheu people, want to be happy, sing dramas, and play well." Some places say, "it's the poor people who want to sing big dramas and play well." There are also some places is: "play red, make red, mother-in-law baby family." However, the essence of it is: prosperity, in the eyes of the working people, has an extremely important position, it is the concentrated expression of people's material life and spiritual life, and it is people's sincere pursuit of happiness. Therefore, red fire has a strong vitality, and even in the past thousands of years, it has become increasingly rich, enriched and perfect.

Shouyang has a large scale, many forms, wide content, strong living atmosphere and unique local characteristics. Generally speaking, it can be divided into two categories: daytime red fire and nighttime red fire. However, these two categories of red fire can not be separated completely. Many red fires can be crossed and repeated between day and night. But the same form, the same content, only because of the difference of time, but produce a very different strange effect. List out the names of these popular songs, such as gongs and drums, Yangko, lion dragon lantern, stilt boat, back stick, iron stick, er GUI wrestling, Liu San cart, big head doll, running Yangko Among them, gaojiapo women's gongs and drums team, Donghe Dandeng team and Jiulong military music team are deeply loved by the masses for their superb performance skills, and have been praised by the superior for many times. Gongs and drums actually refer to the "flowing water" which is popular among the people in Shouyang, and is often played in rural areas and factories. According to legend, it began in 947 ad in Guzhai village, the southern suburb of Taiyuan, where Liu Zhiyuan's younger sister lived. It is said that when Huanggu went out, she used gongs and drums to welcome and send her off. The tune she played was the "flowing water" that is passed down today. It means "happiness as long as flowing water in the East China Sea".

Famous specialty

Oil persimmon is a famous food with unique flavor in Shouyang County. According to legend, Shouyang County is the birthplace of the "old birthday star". It is said that when the "old birthday star" was born, he was very weak. He would not speak or walk until he was 12 years old. His family loved him very much. At that time, there were persimmon trees all over Shouyang. When the persimmon is ripe, it is as cool and refreshing as sucking honey and sugar. The "old birthday star" has been fond of persimmon since childhood, and has been eating persimmon as a meal. At the beginning of winter every year, the parents of the "old birthday star" take off the persimmons, string them up with ropes and hang them in the kiln for the "old birthday star" to eat. Until next year, the persimmons go down the tree. For a long time, the "old birthday star" grows stronger because of eating persimmons, and finally becomes the "longevity star". The "old birthday star" became an immortal and soared to heaven, so that he seldom returned to his hometown in Shouyang. And the villagers want him to look forward to him, every new year, they take a string of good quality persimmon for him. Later, Shouyang gradually became a "spring evening without flowers, autumn early frost" alpine zone, persimmon trees have moved to Yuxian, Pingshan. People in Shouyang do not have persimmons to worship the "old birthday star". A "little birthday star" teaches everyone to mix the noodles with brown sugar, knead them into persimmon shape, fry them, string them with ropes and offer them to the "old birthday star". Since then, the "oil persimmon" has become a high-grade offering for the sacrifice, and Shouyang is known as the "big offering". Since then, the oil persimmon has become a sacrificial offering. Shouyang is known as the "big offering", and it has also become a local famous food. Perhaps because of the frequent consumption of "oil persimmon", the longevity of Shouyang has gradually increased. Shouyang oil persimmon is also well-known, in 1959 National Science Conference, was designated as a famous product of Shanxi. It is characterized by yellow color, shape like persimmon, crisp outside and soft inside, sweet and delicious.

Shouyang dried bean curd has a long history, bean curd workshops throughout the rural towns, Shouyang dried bean curd made from local high-quality soybeans. Due to the suitable soil quality and climate, Shouyang soybean is full of grains, rich in protein, fat, vitamins and other nutrients, and has many varieties, high yield, pure and excellent seed. The dried tofu refined by traditional technology has the characteristics of low sugar, slightly salty, delicate taste, delicate fragrance, high protein and fat, high vitamin and low cholesterol, and has high nutritional value. Shouyang dried tofu is widely used in restaurants, families, tourism, military supplies and many other aspects. Shouyang dried tofu won silver prize in the first agricultural products Expo of Shanxi Province in 1993 and the National Agricultural Products Expo in 1995. Brands include Jianmin brand, RongZi brand, Zhaozi brand and aicheng dried tofu.

Melon is also called sweet melon or cantaloupe. Muskmelon is named for its sweet taste. It is also called muskmelon because of its delicate fragrance. Muskmelon is a summer fruit, its nutritional value can be comparable to watermelon. According to the determination, in addition to the water and protein content of melon is lower than watermelon, other nutrients are not less than watermelon, while the content of aromatic substances, minerals, sugar and vitamin C is significantly higher than watermelon. Eating more melon is beneficial to the activities of human heart, liver and intestinal system, and promotes endocrine and hematopoietic functions. Traditional Chinese medicine confirmed that melon has the remarkable effect of "relieving heat, relieving thirst and urinating".

The characteristics of scallion are: slightly light spicy, slightly dew, sweet, crisp and delicious, scallion is very white, suitable for long-term storage. Zhangqiu scallion contains more protein, vitamins, amino acids and minerals, especially vitamin A, vitamin C and Allicin which has strong bactericidal ability. Scallion is pungent and flat. It has the effects of relieving muscle sweating, Promoting Yang and Qi, removing blood stasis and bleeding, detumescence and detoxification.

The main components are allicin, vitamin C, B1, B2, Trace Vitamin A, mucilage and fatty oil.

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