Do you know the history of Huaihua City, Hunan Province? What kind of place will it become in the future?

Huaihua City is located in southwest Hunan, covering an area of ??27,600 square kilometers and a total population of 4.95 million. Among them, 46 ethnic minority groups including Dong, Miao, Tujia, and Yao account for about 40% of the population. It is a multi-ethnic community. mountain city.

Huaihua has rich and colorful natural landscapes, rich and unique folk customs, and a long history and culture. It has good conditions for the development of tourism. It is one of the important tourist cities in the ten-year tourism development plan of Hunan Province (2001-2010). one. In recent years, based on resource characteristics and development status, Huaihua has gradually formed a tourism development trend in which the three major brands of natural ecology, history and culture, and folk customs complement each other.

Huaihua has obvious transportation advantages

Huaihua has been known as the "throat of Qianchu" since ancient times. It is a bridgehead from the east and central part of my country radiating to the southwest. It is known as the "city dragged by trains" . The Hunan-Guizhou, Zhiliu and Chongqing-Huaihua railways intersect in the urban area. National highways 320, 209 and 319 and the Shangrui, Changyu and Baomao expressways under construction run through the territory. Zhijiang Airport is only more than 30 kilometers away from Huaihua city. The six major tributaries of Shui Shui have a year-round navigable mileage of more than 1,200 kilometers. The city is about to form a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network of water, land and air; "Shanghai (Shanghai) Chengdu (Chengdu)" and "Hohhot (Hohhot) Bei (Beihai)" two countries The first-level communication optical cables meet in Huaihua. These make Huaihua increasingly prominent as an important transportation and communication hub in the southwest region.

The superior location, convenient transportation, and the Huaihua people’s insistence on opening up to the outside world, dedication to their duties, hard work, hard work, and hard work have enabled Huaihua City to transform from an urban area of ??less than 3 square kilometers to A border town with a population of more than 3,000 people has rapidly grown into a medium-sized city with an urban area of ??32 square kilometers and a population of 370,000. It has become an important material, information, and technology circulation center in the surrounding areas of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and has become an important economic center. The radiation area reaches 44 counties around five provinces (cities, districts), a vast area of ??about 90,000 square kilometers and a population of 15 million.

Huaihua has a good tourism location, being at the junction of famous tourist areas such as Zhangjiajie, Fenghuang, Peach Blossom Spring in Hunan, Guilin in Guangxi, Fanjing Mountain in Guizhou, which is conducive to attracting tourists from these tourist areas to Huaihua. Especially from the perspective of tourism development in western Hunan, Huaihua's tourism resources are highly complementary to Zhangjiajie and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. It is also the connection point of the golden tourism corridor from Zhangjiajie to Guilin and even Hainan. Accelerating the development of Huaihua's tourism industry is an important step to realize the strong integration of tourism products in the western part of our province and tourism products from other provinces. In 2005, Huaihua City received 4.9 million domestic and foreign tourists, with total tourism revenue of nearly 2 billion yuan, equivalent to 6% of GDP.

Huaihua’s tourism resources have obvious characteristics

Feature 1: Huaihua has a profound historical and cultural heritage.

Huaihua has a long history and outstanding people. Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it has been the administrative seat of the country, county, road, state and government. Thousands of years of civilization history have left extremely precious cultural relics. Here are the sites of Chu, Qin, and central Guizhou counties and nearby large-scale tombs of the Warring States, Qin, and Han Dynasties. There is also the world's earliest well-preserved academic institution, Longxing Lecture Temple, which was built in the second year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty. It is larger than Yuelu in Changsha. The academy is as early as 342 years ago; the Eryou Book Cave where the source of the poem "learned rich in five cars, and wrote in Eryou" comes from is in Yuanling County, Huaihua; it is the hometown of Qu Yuan who was exiled for nine years and wrote "Nine Songs"; there are poets of the Tang Dynasty The emperor Wang Changling left behind the eternal saying "Luoyang relatives and friends are like asking each other, a heart of ice is in a jade pot". The first scenic spot in the upper reaches of southern Chu - Qiancheng Furong Tower and other historical and cultural tourism resources; there is the only site of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in China - Zhijiang Anti-Japanese Surrender Memorial Park, the largest Mazu Temple in the inland area - Zhijiang Tianhou Temple and other cultural landscapes; the only large-scale ancient trade city of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China - Hongjiang Ancient Shopping mall, which is hailed as the commercial capital that has been dusted for thousands of years by Vice Governor He Tongxin of the Hunan Provincial Government; there are also the provincial historical and cultural city Qiancheng Ancient City, Huitong Gaoyi Ancient Residential Houses and the Chinese Jingping Ancient Village. Huaihua is a place where talented people emerge in large numbers. It is the hometown of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as Xiang Jingyu, Su Yu, and Teng Daiyuan. It is home to the famous former site of the Central Red Army’s Long March Passage Transfer Conference, Gongcheng Academy, and the Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Memorial Hall. He Longhong’s Second and Sixth Army Command Posts, Liu and Deng’s Army Command Posts and other red tourism resources; Huaihua is also the birthplace of hybrid rice, and it was from Huaihua that Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, entered the world.

Feature 2: Huaihua folk customs are strange and colorful.

The Dong folk culture in Huaihua is very prominent. Huaihua occupies three and a half of the five Dong autonomous counties in the country. It is the main area of ??the Dong ethnic group in China, and 47 different ethnic groups live in harmony. The Huangdu Cultural Village, Baili Dong Cultural Corridor, and Taro Dong Village, a key national cultural relic protection unit in Tongtong Dong Autonomous County of our city, have maintained the original, antique, and colorful Dong folk culture. The doors are not closed at night, the roads are not picked up, and the scene is harmonious. It has met the central government's requirements for building a harmonious society thousands of years in advance. In the passage, people can eat whatever they want and drink wine. The Dong people are also a nation that is good at singing and dancing. The Dong people's songs and Lusheng dance here are world-renowned. Huaihua's Wu Nuo culture, Panhu culture, rice farming culture, etc. also have their own characteristics and rich connotations.

Feature 3: Huaihua’s landscape and ecology are beautiful and pleasant.

Huaihua is located between the Wuling Mountains and the Xuefeng Mountains, and the Yuanshui River runs through the entire territory from south to north. This determines that Huaihua has a complex terrain, alternating mountains and rivers, and scenery everywhere, which can be said to be different with each step. Huaihua's forest coverage rate is as high as 65.3%, which is much higher than the national average (less than 20%). It is one of the nine ecologically sound areas in the country. Currently, our city is actively building a national ecological demonstration city. There are 9 forest parks, nature reserves, and scenic spots at or above the national and provincial levels, Wanfo Mountain, which ranks among the top ten Danxia landforms in the country and covers an area of ??168 square kilometers, and the Wuqiangxi Hydropower Station reservoir area, the largest hydropower station in Hunan. The "Thousand Island Lake" in Yuanling, the Danxia Simeng landscape in Xupu, the passage, the thrilling ecological rafting in Xinhuang, and the unique cave resources of Chenxi Swallow Cave and Xupu Feishui Cave, especially the Longdi River in the passage Rafting is extremely wonderful and thrilling. It is impossible to live there for one night and live for three years, but it is possible to live for thirty days. It is impossible to raft without capsizing the boat several times, but it is also impossible to get injured if you are not careful. It doesn't matter if you fall into the river to drink water, because there are mineral water everywhere in Huaihua.