Erlong Township, Dingyuan County, Anhui Province

Erlong Hui nationality township

Erlong Hui Township is located about 30 kilometers southeast of Dingcheng, bordering Feidong County in the south. Chuzhou is the only ethnic township in Chuzhou, and it is also the earliest ethnic township in Anhui Province with the largest Hui population. There are 5 administrative villages in the township, including 4 Hui villages. The total population is 15016, including 11442 Hui people, accounting for 76.2% of the total population. It covers an area of 41 square kilometers and has 28000 mu of cultivated land. Located in Jianghuai watershed, it is a typical hilly area, prone to drought and waterlogging. In 2002, it was identified as one of the key towns for comprehensive management of the Yangtze Huaihe River watershed.

economic development

In recent years, under the guidance of the party's ethnic and religious policies and the correct leadership of Party committees and governments at all levels, Erlong Hui Township has made sustained and healthy economic and social development by forging ahead, advancing with the times, concentrating on solid work. In 2006, the gross national product reached 85 million yuan, the per capita income of farmers reached 2400 yuan, and the fiscal revenue reached 1.3 million yuan.

honor

In recent years, it has been awarded the honorary titles of "National Youth unity and progress advanced collective", "national mass sports advanced collective", "Anhui national unity advanced collective" and so on. Buhe, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wang Taihua, former Secretary of the provincial Party committee, Fu Xishou, governor of the province, Yang Duoliang, chairman of the provincial people's Political Consultative Conference, and other leaders successively visited the township for inspection and guidance. on December 26, 2017, it was rated as the fifth batch of national demonstration areas (units) for national unity and progress by the National People's commission. on December 24, 2019, it was selected into the list of national rural governance demonstration towns.

Historical evolution

The history of Erlong

Name change

Erlong, formerly known as lanfucheng, was the fiefdom of Lanyu, the Duke of Liangguo in the early Ming Dynasty. In 1393, because of LAN's suspicion of treason, Ming Taizu sent Wang Ying to lanfucheng to kill LAN manmen and destroy the nine ethnic groups, but Wang Ying did not strictly enforce it. After the blue case subsided, Wang Ying was ordered to settle in Lanfu city. The preface of Wang's genealogy says: "the first ancestor Ying, also known as Zanzhe, was born in Zhili. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, he was granted the command of wudewai. He won the title with his merits. The first ancestor was called by the black horse general." After Wang Ying settled in lanfucheng, lanfucheng was gradually called "Wang Huigang". During the Yongle reign, zheng he returned to Nanjing and presented the Tianfang Sutra. In 1408, Wang Ying rebuilt a large-scale mosque in imitation of the Jingjue temple in Nanjing. From the end of Qing Dynasty, seven mosques were built. During festivals, Hui people gather in mosques to worship and chant scriptures, listen to Imam preaching and engage in festival activities. before the 29th year of the Republic of China (1941), it was always known as "Wang Huigang". Tan Zhenlin, political commissar of the second division of the New Fourth Army, and Wei Wenbo, county magistrate, visited the site to see the image of two dragons. Tan Zhenlin humorously said: "Wang Huigang will be called Erlong instead." Therefore, Erlong got its name.

Anti Japanese War

Ma Hongke, No. A3, was a famous local doctor. In 1929, he joined the revolution and worked underground in the name of practicing medicine. In February of 1930, he was killed by a traitor. Huang Yan, Tan Zhenlin and others went to mourn in person. In memory of him, he made a bronze statue and wrote the true story of Ma Jiasan, which was collected by Anhui Provincial Museum after the founding of the people's Republic of China. On July 13 of the lunar calendar (August 18, 1937) in the 26th year of the Republic of China, the ruler of Dingyuan, under the pretext of "not within our ethnic group, their hearts will be different" and "hindering the resistance against Japan", colluded with the landlord bully and bandit Liu Dengfeng to carry out burning, killing and looting of the Hui inhabited area in Erlong. In the same year, the Erlong Hui people spontaneously organized the "red spear club", with six guarantors and six xiangtangzi. The number of people who joined the club reached 1000. Six guarantors also set up six self-defense forces, with 60 local guns. At the beginning of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1941), Gong Sheng, Chen Xian and Wang Huigang, the political parties, carried out Anti Japanese propaganda and established the Erlong Township People's government. In September of the same year, the youth armed self defense force was established, and more than 300 people from the six "red gun society" participated in the self defense force. In 1943, Erlong township was reorganized into Erlong Hui Autonomous Region. In the spring of the next year, the Youth Self Defense Force was reorganized into a halal camp with two companies. A poem by the soldiers of the halal camp: armed with arms, carrying a steel gun, the descendants of Muhammad, rushing to the front of the Anti Japanese war. For the glory of the Lord, for the well-being of the motherland, he vowed to kill all the devils. In the spring of the 34th year of the Republic of China, the zhoujiagang base in Quanjiao county was surrounded by Japanese and puppet forces. The halal battalion was ordered to reinforce and set out from Guangxing to rush to the front line at a speed of more than 60 Huali in two hours. As soon as the bugle of charge sounded, the halal camp went down like a tiger, crushing the enemy. In the autumn of the same year, the main force of the New Fourth Army was ordered to move northward. In order to cover the transfer of large forces, the higher authorities ordered the halal company to stop the enemy at Zhulong bridge in Chuxian county. On the morning of September 30, a company entered the Zhulong bridge and confronted three regular regiments and a county brigade of the 172nd division of the Communist Party of China, repelling the enemy's attacks again and again. On October 3, Zhu Nairui, commander of the enemy's 172 division, personally supervised the battle and sent several cannons from Chuzhou. In the afternoon, the blockhouse was destroyed, many soldiers died, 29 officers and soldiers were captured, and company commander Dong Licai was buried alive in public. In the 35th year of the Republic of China, the rest of the Muslim camp was ordered to fight in the area of Hongze Lake in Northern Jiangsu, and Bai Zhiyi, the instructor of the Muslim camp, died. The troops were later incorporated into the PLA and moved to the north and South with the large forces. After the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1987, many people were still alive, such as Yang Rubai, vice chairman of the CPPCC Jilin Provincial Committee, Li Jia, former Vice Minister of the Logistics Department of the Beijing Garrison, Mu Weichun, director of the Research Office of the Ministry of radio, film and television, etc. Erlong was founded in 1949 and was approved by the provincial government as the first ethnic township in 1982. The liangguogongfu site of the Ming Dynasty general Lanyu is located in the North Street of the township. Now lanyujing is still well protected. In 202 B.C., the Chu and Han Dynasties fought against each other, and the tomb of concubine Yu Ji (also known as Ku Yu Dun) of the overlord was located three kilometers northeast of the township. In 1991, it was listed as a key cultural relic protection object at the county level by the county government. Now it is applying for provincial cultural relic protection unit, and striving for funds from higher authorities to carry out short-term and long-term development and construction planning for the tomb.