Tourism in Songhe Town

Songhe Town’s rich tourism resources have broad prospects for development. There are many places of interest and historical sites in Songhe Town, as well as many revolutionary memorial sites. The eight ancient sceneries of the Song River are beautiful and graceful: Moon Reflection on the Reading Desk, Spring of Thinking of the Past, Yandun Ridge, Laolong Lei Gong, Stone Man Breathing Mist, Night Rain on Banana, Fragrant Mountain Stream, and White Bamboo in the Evening Smoke. In particular, the series of tourist attractions including the Stone Man Breathing Mist, Old Dragon Thunder God, and Leopard Temple are the key landscapes of the national Dahongshan Scenic Tourist Area. In addition, there are also ruins such as the Tomb of the Prince of Silla and the Temple of the Sun. Majiachong in the northeast is the headquarters of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army during the Anti-Japanese War; Zuojiafan was once the location of the rear hospital of the Fifth Division; during the War of Liberation, Songhe conducted The famous Battle of Songhe (contained in Mao Zedong's anthology). With the gradual development of scenic spots and cultural attractions and the policy tilt towards Songhe Town’s tourism industry as a key player in the tertiary industry, the rich tourism resources will become a new growth point for Songhe Town’s economy.

In China’s third cultural relics census, county museum census workers discovered a new Shang and Zhou Dynasty--Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient artifacts in Group 6 of Dongjiacheng Village, about 7 kilometers east of Songhe Town. The city site is independent of a large, flat rice farmland. The city site is surrounded by hills and hills and has an oval plan shape, with a length of 150 meters from north to south and a width of 105 meters from east to west. The highest remaining height of the city wall reaches 5 meters, the width of the city wall is 3-4 meters, and the perimeter of the city wall is 650 meters. The city site has three gates in the east, west and south. The gates are about 1.5 meters wide and surrounded by a defensive moat outside the city wall. The moat is 6-8 meters wide and 0.50-0.65 meters deep. Both the city wall and the city have been reclaimed farmland. There are more Corded pottery sherds exposed on the surface in the northeastern part of the city site, and there are more modern tiles exposed in the middle of the city site. many. There is a cultural layer accumulation at the south gate of the city site. The soil is compact, dry, dark gray in color, and contains cord-patterned pottery shards, clumps, etc.

The specimens collected at the city site are mainly pottery, mostly clay red pottery and sandy red pottery, with a small amount of sandy gray pottery. The shapes of the utensils include: feet, jar mouth rim, etc. Decoration: Mainly rope pattern, with string pattern. The city site is well preserved and is the first Shang and Zhou dynasty city site discovered in the Jingmen area. Its discovery provides precious physical information for Jingshan County to study the history of this period.

A group of ancient tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty were discovered in Chenguan Village, Songhe Town, Jingshan County. On April 8, 2007, an archaeological team composed of provinces, cities and counties has excavated more than 10 ancient tombs here, and the excavation project has been completed. Near the end, a large number of pottery, porcelain, stone, copper, silver and iron relics were unearthed. Among them, 4 are precious cultural relics.

These Eastern Han Dynasty tomb clusters are concentrated on Liujia Mountain in Group 6, Chenguan Village, Songhe Town. Judging from the excavated tombs, they are all brick chamber tombs made of blue and black burnt bricks. Complex shape. The largest ones are tombs numbered M6 and M7, which are tombs of mixed couples. The unearthed artifacts have not yet been cleared, and the identity and specific age of the tomb owner cannot be determined. The four precious cultural relics unearthed are: 1 bronze crossbow machine and 3 bronze mirrors. Experts said that these cultural relics unearthed from Eastern Han tombs are of great significance to the study of funeral customs in the Jingshan area during the Eastern Han Dynasty and to understanding the level of pottery, porcelain and smelting at that time.