Baijian Town, Jizhou District, Tianjin Municipality

Baijian town

Baijian town is the west gate of Jizhou District of Tianjin city, adjacent to Sanhe City of Hebei Province. It has developed agricultural economy, a variety of valuable seedlings and flowers, and a complete range of varieties. It is an important building material base in Tianjin area, with developed transportation industry. Baijian town has a long history, many cultural relics and rich tourism resources.

geographical environment

Baijian town is the west gate of Jizhou District, Tianjin city, adjacent to Sanhe City, Hebei Province, with an area of 50 square kilometers, 19 villages and a permanent population of 20034 (2017). Jian town is mountainous in the north and plain in the south. The town has convenient transportation and communication. There are Beijing Harbin and Baoping highways and Beijing Qinhuangdao and Daqin railways running through the town. With the town government as the center, there are rural highways leading to all villages, and communication optical cables and cable TV reaching all villages. The agricultural economy of Baijian town is developed, with a variety of valuable seedlings and flowers.

Economic overview

The main crops are wheat and corn. The fruits are rich in persimmon, apple, grape, pear, apricot, peach, plum, chestnut, jujube, etc. Building materials are rich in resources. The mineral deposits in mountainous areas include barite, limestone, dolomite, marble, etc. with large reserves and high grade, it is an important building materials base in Tianjin, and the transportation industry is developed.

tourist resources

Baijian town has a long history, many cultural relics and rich tourism resources. Baijian village in the town has the site of the Qing Dynasty Emperor's palace. The royal family of the Qing Dynasty chose Zunhua county to build its own cemetery, which is called the East Tomb of the Qing Dynasty. The emperor's palace was a post station for the royal family to rest on the way. It is said that Baijian is regarded as a phoenix land in the eyes of the royal family, with its head facing north. Now Baijian section of Beijing Harbin highway is the two wings of Phoenix. At present, the two wells on the north side of Beijing Harbin highway are 300 meters apart and are Fengyan. Well north is the palace, for Fengtou. There used to be a bend of water in the north of Fengtou. It was clear and murmuring. It ran through the whole village from east to west. Therefore, the village was named qingshuipo stream at that time, and later it was renamed Baijian. The gate of the palace is the same as the gate of the palace, and the two sides of the gate are the side halls. The architecture of the palace is the palace style of Qing Dynasty. There is a main hall in the palace for the bedroom. The north, East and west of the bedroom are surrounded by palace rooms with corridors. When the royal family came to this place for mourning, they put the mausoleum in the triangle pit in the southwest of the palace. Bodyguards live in the side hall, servants and attendants live in the palace, and the royal family lives in the bedroom. On the east side of the palace, standing parallel to the palace, is a Xianggu nunnery, which is called the nunnery. There is a mountain gate in nunnery. There is a plaque on the gate, which reads "Xianggu nunnery". Inside the gate is the second hall, behind which is a stone tablet. Further inside is the main hall. There are small stone tablets on the left and right in front of the main hall. In front of each tablet is a towering white pine with a diameter of more than 1 meter. On the left and right sides of the main hall is the auxiliary hall, behind the main hall is the main Pavilion, on both sides is the auxiliary Pavilion, and between the auxiliary hall and the auxiliary Pavilion is the ear room. On the east side of the mountain gate is the gatehouse, or gateway, which is usually the way in and out of Xianggu nunnery. There is a stone gate from the gatehouse to enter the base. There are three stone towers and three brick towers in the base, which are arranged in the northwest and southeast direction, and gradually become smaller and shorter. In front of the tower, there is a thick white pine tree. There is a soil foundation in front of the pine tree, which gives people a kind of gloomy feeling. It is said that because an emperor died in the Qing Dynasty, he had to become a monk to avoid the disaster. The state should not be without a monarch for a day, so it put up notices to recruit women to act as substitute monks to save the emperor from disaster. And in Baijian this geomantic treasure to build this temple. These female monks enjoy the state's salary, own land, and live a free and generous life. They are envied by nuns in other places. Therefore, they are called "to be monks in Panshan and nuns in Baijian". Up to now, the names and images of nuns Yunchang, yuncang and yunku are still in people's minds.

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