Yongfeng Town, Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province

Yongfeng town

Yongfeng town is located in the middle of Shuangfeng County, across the two banks of the lower reaches of the Mekong River. It is adjacent to the "Golden Triangle" of Changtan Zhuzhou in the East, the "elastic zone" of hengchen in the south, Shaoyang in the West and Loudi in the north. With a total land area of 82.66 square kilometers (2017), it has jurisdiction over 56 villages, 11 neighborhood committees and 589 Village (neighborhood) groups, with a total population of 113911 (2017). There are 2343 hectares of cultivated land, including 1874 hectares of paddy fields. The Meishui River enters from the South and flows northward through the town. Both sides of the Strait are fertile land in Guangping and golden land for agricultural development. They mainly produce grain, live pigs, vegetables, fresh fish, capsicum, chili sauce, skin tofu, medicinal materials and fruits. The breeding industry ranks the fourth among the top 10 townships in the city. Forestry has become a model for the construction of Qianyuan mountain in the whole region.

On September 24, 2019, Yongfeng town (Yongfeng chili sauce) was selected into the list of the ninth batch of national "one village, one product" demonstration villages and towns.

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·Yongfeng Town, Shuangfeng County (Loudi City, Hunan Province)

·Area: 82.66 square kilometers (2017)

·Longitude: 112 ° 10 ′ East

·Latitude: 27 ° 27 ′ n

·Altitude: 98m

·Population: 113911 (2017)

·Postal Code: 417700

·Area code: 0738

Population data

(fifth census data)

Yongfeng town

They are: Wuli, Guanghui, Chengzhong, Tianqing, Wenxing, Fuxing, Hetang, Chengguan, Chengbei, Chengxi and Huayuan; zhujialun, Hongqi, Yanjia, Jingping, Yixin, Tanshan, Huangjia, Maduan, Tanshan, Jinshan, Si'an, tuqiaolong, sangyuan, Taoshu, Mashan, Xinlong, Donghua, Dongtang, Yinxing, Hongdian, Fushou, Xialong, Gaotuo, Yangliu and MaoYuan There are 56 village committees, namely Ping, Hengtang, Dingyuan, Nan'an, moshichong, Yangshu, Lianyang, Yangcun, Maotang, Niwan, Yuelong, Dingsheng, Songping, fengjiang, Jintian, Yuanshi, Baiyang, Qingshan, Chengping, May 4th, Guangcai, Shiping, Honghe, Modao, Xichong, Shaotang, jingwan, litiou, yuanxiao, Yanwan, hejialing and Yangjing.

The total population is 88040, including 44684 males and 43356 females. The number of households is 25645. The total population is 86711, 43753 males and 42958 females. There are 19485 males aged 0-14, 10239 males aged 14, 9246 females aged 14, 6224 females aged 64, 31413 males aged 15-64, 30832 females aged 15-64, 6310 males aged 65 and above, 3032 males aged 65 and above There are 3278 females, 78926 of whom live locally.

As of 2017, the total population was 113911 (2017).

Origin of ancient town

According to Shuangfeng spring and Autumn Annals, the temple was built in the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716), and the population gradually gathered. It was renamed Yongfeng town in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. In 1691, a post station was set up from Xiangxiang to Baoqing, and yongfengpu was the tenth. Qianlong three years (1738), Xiangxiang County in Yongfeng. In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the Zhongli Youth League defense Bureau was established in Yongfeng (Yongqing Pavilion). Shuangfeng County was established in August 1951. Since then, Yongfeng has become the political, economic and cultural center of the county.

Yongfeng is an ancient town with a long history. I'm afraid we can't make it clear all of a sudden about its historical evolution. According to Shuangfeng County annals, "ancient Jingzhou belonged to one of the nine prefectures; Chu belonged to the spring and Autumn period and Warring States period; Qin belonged to Xiangnan county and belonged to Changsha County; part of Liandao belonged to Xiangnan County in the Western Han Dynasty; part of Liandao belonged to Changsha County and Lingling County in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Xiangxiang County belonged to the Southern Dynasty. Later, as a part of Xiangxiang, it changed with the change of its ownership. But no matter how it changes, Yongfeng is the political center of this ancient territory.

Yongfeng memory according to the old people's memories, from the beginning of the last century until the 1960s after liberation, Yongfeng has been an ancient town with many ancient pagodas, 19 temples, temples, heaven, earth and man, and four homes.

At that time, Yongfeng's transportation was mainly by water. Long sailing merchant ships set sail or returned here, and the docks were full of wooden boats. On the banks of the Meishui River, the inns and various shops in tianqingzong (today's Qingjie Street), dilingzong (part of jinwenxing Street), changshengzong (Wulipai), Shengsheng Zong (today's Shengsheng Road) and hefengzong (today's Hetang Street) welcome and see off passers-by from south to north. On the hanging foot upstairs near the river, there are often young daughters-in-law or maidens who watch men or brothers set sail or return affectionately.

Xizi pagoda on the Bank of Meishui River

Yuanxiao Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and every other fair, the town attracts men, women, and children from all walks of life. In summer, on the beach in front of Yangsi Temple (now the front of Shuangfeng Hotel), many people come here to bask in chili sauce. On the other side of Hefeng street, there are several shipyards. The new boats will also lie on the big rocks by the river to bask in the sun and tung oil. At that time, on both sides of the Meishui River, there were pots of sun red chili sauce on one side, and wooden boats with bright brushes on the other. In the evening, from time to time, folk songs between the sauce collecting women and the oil tanker craftsmen spread over the town.

There are also the moon watching and burning pagodas on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, and the dengwen pagoda on the Double Ninth Festival

What a beautiful ancient town painting!

Wenta and Guansheng hall are the most popular places in the ancient town. Wenta was built by local people in the second year of Tongye in order to revitalize the style of writing in the city, which echoes Shuangfeng Academy. When the Wenta was built, eight scholars were born in the 24 capitals of Hetang. Later, there were many scholars and scholars.

Zhu Jianyu, former chairman of the County Federation of literary and art circles, described the Wenta he saw at that time: "Wenta stands on the top of the tower in the southeast of the town. There is a delicate copper bell under the eaves of the seven story octagonal building. When the wind blows, fifty-six copper bells are scattered. The bell also invited the birds living in the tower to circle over the county for a long time. Every time at this time, the adults and children in the town will always look forward to it, and the joy will overflow on their faces. People think that it's a new county established after liberation. Compared with other old counties, Yongfeng is also an ancient town with deep roots, and its establishment as a county is not inferior. "

Guansheng hall is another pride of the ancient town. It is a large-scale hall with typical traditional style. It is the representative work of many halls and temples in Yongfeng. There is a legend among the people of Yongfeng that Wu Sangui was defeated when he led the army through Yongfeng. In the evening, Wu Sangui, who stayed in the hall, had a dream. In the dream, Guan Gong taught him a set of tactics. The next day, Wu Sangui used the tactics given by Guan Gong to save the final situation and win a big battle. In order to repay his kindness, Wu Sangui went to a copper shop in the town and made a pair of bronze cranes, which were dedicated to the temple of Guan and worshipped on both sides of the statue of emperor Guan. The pair of bronze cranes are in the Provincial Museum.

It is a pity that these two ancient buildings with great cultural value were destroyed in the "unprecedented" era of the cultural revolution. This makes a lot of Yongfeng people, especially cultural people feel sad! Liu Zhihui, an old doctor of Liu's family, said: "it's a pity that the cultural revolution has destroyed the historical sites of Shuangfeng people's ancestors." Huang dingchu, a famous painter born and raised in Yongfeng and Zhu Jianyu, a famous writer who lived in Yongfeng for more than 40 years, once said: "if Yongfeng doesn't destroy Wenta, Guansheng temple and Shuangfeng academy, it's no good The transformation of several old streets and the preservation of stilted buildings will never be worse than Fenghuang. "

In central Hunan, the old folk still remember an old saying: from 9981 to Chuangui. In ancient times, the post road from Xiangxiang to Guizhou, Sichuan, had to go through 81 passes. According to my investigation and research, the first "cave" of this 81 cave is in the section between Yongkou of Xiangxiang and Lingzi mountain of our county. In ancient times, there were only two ways to communicate with the outside world, one was by water, and the other was by land. In those days, there were both ways to communicate with the outside world in central Hunan. In the East and north direction, the main way was by water. From the river mouth to Lianshui, it could reach Xiangtan and Changsha, and as far as Wuhan and Shanghai, Only by land. The most important post road in the territory is from Yongkou to Yongfeng, qingshuping, chujieling, to Baoqing (now Shaoyang), and from Baoqing to southwest provinces. The ancient post road in those days is the 320 National Road today. It can be concluded that Shuangfeng was the first gateway from central Hunan to Sichuan and Guizhou in ancient times, and one of the gateways from central China to southwest China.

Yongfeng and even the whole Shuangfeng are located in this unique geographical location. In the era of water transportation before the development of highway, Yongfeng town has been at the end of the tributaries of Lianshui River system since ancient times. For thousands of years, due to the prosperity of waterway shipping, coal, gypsum, tea, pepper, medicinal materials, soybeans, etc., which are abundant in the territory, have been shipped from Yongfeng, Yangtan and other docks to Xiangxiang, Xiangtan, Changsha, Wuhan, and even to Shanghai, Ningbo and other places farther away. Rice, cloth, candy, salt, etc. from other places have also been transported by this waterway. As the merchant ships could no longer go to liyujing wharf of Yongfeng old bridge, Yongfeng became the last commercial distribution center along the Meishui - flanking water - Lianshui - Xiangjiang - Yangtze River waterway, and the first stop to the southwest.

At that time, Yongfeng was still the only way from Southwest Hunan to Hengshan, one of the five mountains. From July to September of the lunar calendar, pilgrims from Baoqing, Qiyang, Chengbu, Suining, Anhua and other places to Jinxiang of Nanyue entered through the post road and separated at Wulipai

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