Historical evolution of Xiping Town

The ancient Guanyin Field in Xiping Town was built in the first year of Kangxi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1662) and the Panlong Temple was named after the Guanyin in the temple.

In the tenth year of Kangxi (1672), it was established as the residence of Xingri Township.

The fourth district was built in the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936).

After the founding of New China in 1950, it was still the seat of the district office.

In 1956, it was renamed Xiping District.

Xiping Town *** has jurisdiction over 10 villages and 2 neighborhood committees.

It governs Alliance Village, Liming Village, Ganziyuan Village, Tashuiqiao Village, Jinxing Village, Gufanggou Village, Hetaogou Village, Xijiang Village, Huohuo Village, Shanghe Village, East Street 1 and 2 Neighborhood committee is the only town in the original Xiping District.

Since the district was withdrawn and merged with the township in 1992, the Jianlin Office under its jurisdiction was Jianlin Township before 1992, formerly known as Jianlinyi. It is located on the route from Santai to Xiping, 24 kilometers west of the county. From the Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, it was the residence of Kangjin Township. In 1935, Jianlinyi Joint Protection was established, and in 1940, it was changed to Jianlin Township.

More than 85% of the population in Changzhen are immigrants, Hakkas and their descendants who moved in from Fujian, Guangdong, Huguang, Jiangxi and other provinces during the "Huguang-filled Sichuan" period in the early Qing Dynasty.

Changzhen covers an area of ??4.5 square kilometers and has a permanent population of more than 30,000 people.

There are two cities, the new and the old.

The layout of the old city is similar to that of the county seat.

The city wall was built in the fifth year of Jiaqing (1800) in the Qing Dynasty by connecting the original grain terraces. There are seven gates in four directions, all of which are misaligned with the actual direction.

Cultural relics and relics such as the Nianfo Tower, ancient residences, stone streets, four major conference halls, Wu's ancestral hall, and the ruins of Chen Wanxi's former residence in Hongliang Village, Zhu Jun's Office, show the creation and glory of the Xiping people in the past.

In the new city, the newly built primary and secondary schools, water plants, commercial buildings, post and telecommunications buildings, elderly activity centers, health centers, leisure villages, etc. are signs of today's rich material and spiritual life.

4,000 individual merchants and 1,300 industrial and trade enterprises are adding new blood to Xiping.

The integration and harmony of the old and new cities, the improvement of living conditions and the improvement of quality are another achievements created by Xiping people in the new era.

On January 19, 2010, the "Second China Sichuan Famous Cities and Ancient Towns" was jointly sponsored by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, the Provincial Tourism Bureau, the Provincial Construction Department, etc., and hosted by the Provincial Famous Cities and Ancient Towns Cultural Tourism Development Association. At the "Cultural Tourism Festival", Xiping Ancient Town was rated as "The Most Beautiful Ancient Town in Sichuan", ranking second in the province.

The overall layout of Xiping Ancient Town is like a human body.

According to experts in literature and history, the layout of ancient Chinese cities and towns followed the principle of "bionics", but it is still rare to use human models like Xiping Town.

There is a folk saying that the layout of Xiping Ancient Town is like a "beautiful woman showing off her shame", which reflects the primitive worship of "the earth is the mother".

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, due to war, natural disasters, plague and other reasons, the population in Sichuan decreased sharply. "Thousands of miles of fertile land, there is not a single person to cultivate it."

Like Sichuan, the Xiping area is "a place where tigers and leopards compete for deer all day long" and it is difficult to see a pedestrian for hundreds of miles. The scene is very miserable.

It was not until the last years of Shunzhi that any immigrants moved in.

In the first year of Kangxi (1662), some villagers built a Panlong Temple at *** of this town.

Later, due to the rapid increase in population, Kaijiang water transportation prospered. Due to the needs of production and life, the market was established in the 10th year of Kangxi (1762). It was named after the Guanyin in the temple and became the residence of Xingri Township.

This is the origin of Guanyin Field.

According to records, there were 500 households in Xingchang at that time, mainly immigrants from Fujian, Guangdong, Huguang (Hunan, Hubei), Jiangxi and other provinces.

In the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936), the Fourth District of Santai County Kuomintang was founded.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it remained the regional headquarters.

The name was changed to Xiping in 1956.

Since the urban architectural layout is similar to that of Santai Tongchuan Old City, the city wall is said to be "three miles around the city and one mile and three through the city". It is one-third of the area of ??Santai Ancient City, and it is It has long been the political and economic center of the county, so it is known as "Little Santai".

The "cross"-shaped old street that was gradually expanded after Xiping was established, covers an area of ??about 1 square kilometer.

After the city wall was built in the fifth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1800), it became a veritable old city.

The ancient houses, stone streets, Guanyin Temple, Guangdong, Fujian, Huguang (Hunan, Hubei), Jiangxi Guild Hall, Wu Clan Ancestral Hall and other cultural relics and relics in the old city are its highlights.

The city wall in Xiping is different from those in other places. It is made up of original grain platforms.

In the fifth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1800), local officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, in order to suppress the uprising of peasants such as Ran Wenchu ??of the White Lotus Sect, designated the Guanyinchang to build warehouses and move the grain and grass supplies from Santai and Zhongjiang counties. It was stored here. After the rebellion was over, the villagers connected the granaries to guard the granaries and built a city wall.

Therefore, the Xiping City Wall has two different characteristics: First, the four square gates (except the south gate) are all equipped with small doors. The main gate is used for entering cars and the small gate is used for pedestrians.

This is the origin of the Big East Gate, Little East Gate, Big West Gate and Little West Gate we see now.

The second is that the direction of the four doors is 90 degrees different from the actual direction. The north door facing north is intentionally called the east door; the south door facing south is called the west door, etc.

This is a deliberately wrong call in order to confuse the "bandits" and seek peace.

Today's Xiaodongmen is also called Huanbi Gate. It was renovated in the eighth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty and repaired in the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804).

The Guanyin Temple Nianfo Building, city walls and city gates in the old city are all county-level cultural relics protection units.

The Wu Ancestral Hall is the most complete Hakka ancestral temple in northern Sichuan and the only remaining Wu Ancestral Hall in Sichuan.

It is located on the bank of the Kaijiang River outside the Dadongmen of Guanyinchang, Tongchuan Prefecture (now Santai Xiping Town) in northern Sichuan. It was built in the early years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. The owner of the ancestral hall, Wu Gongqiujun, was the fifth emperor of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. In the 16th year of Huguang's expansion into Sichuan, the ancestor of the surname Wu came here to settle down. The Wu Ancestral Hall is a typical ancient Hakka building. It consists of the main hall, Shengwu Hall, Guanyin Hall, left and right side halls, middle hall, inner patio and main entrance hall. , there is a patio on the left and right, plus three courtyards.

The ancestral hall has 18 well-protected branch Hakka ancestral halls.

It is a place where the Hakka Wu clan in Xiping gather to worship their ancestors.

With the strong support of the local ***, the Wu Hakka Ancestral Hall successfully received all the experts and scholars from the "Sichuan Immigration and Hakka Culture Seminar" on September 15, 2003, becoming the first in the province. A grand gathering for a Hakka family.

In October 2006, the 21st World Hakka Friendship Conference was held in Taipei City, Taipei City. It was personally hosted by Mr. Wu Boxiong, President of the World Hakka Association and the then Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China. A plaque was inscribed "Wu's Ancestral Hall" for the Hakka Ancestral Hall of the Wu family in Xiping, Santai County.

The ancestral hall was born in the old patriarchal society era. It is the carrier of filial piety culture and an extension of filial piety to parents.

It is difficult to believe that a person who does not honor his parents is a good citizen and a good worker.

Running the country according to law and governing the country by virtue complement each other, and it is necessary to establish a socialist ideological and moral system that is consistent with the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.

The ancestral hall is a form of inheritance of traditional virtues.

With the help of the Dongfeng "Immigration and Hakka Culture Academic Seminar" held in Santai, the Wu people carried out more systematic modifications.

The Divine Ancestor Tablet and the pair of plaques were restored.

In the old days, the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall contributed to cultivating talents of the Wu family and social stability in Xiping. Today, in the era of socialist reform and opening up, on the basis of taking the best and using the greater, it still has an irreplaceable role. The role of moral education as an auxiliary teacher.

The existence of the Wu Ancestral Hall has excellent practical significance.

The Xiping Guild Hall was built for Xiping immigrants and Hakkas.

The construction scale, size, structure, style, etc. are commensurate with and proportional to the number of immigrants, economic strength, and social status of the province.

In the old city, most of the four grand halls in Guangdong, Fujian, Huguang (Hunan, Hubei) and Jiangxi were built during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty.

For example, on the center beam of the theater building of the Guangdong Guild Hall there are the words "Built in the seventh year of Daoguang (1827)".

According to the legend of the old man, the largest guild hall is the Huguang Hall, which is majestic and has a bell tower and a drum tower.

The second is the Fujian Pavilion, which has existing wing rooms, two rows of plaques, an incense table and other cultural relics.

There are tens of thousands of monuments, indicating that tens of thousands of people donated money during the construction.

The Guangdong Pavilion is the best preserved, with temples, theaters, facades, etc. It is now a tea garden and has many tea drinkers.

Only the gate tower of the Jiangxi Pavilion remains, and only the remains of the Huguang Pavilion.

The guild hall integrates nostalgia, social interaction, faith and entertainment.

It has played an indelible and important role in the history of Xiping immigrants living and working in peace and contentment and rebuilding their homes. The Xiping Town Party Committee and *** united as one and led the people of Xiping Town to adhere to *** theory and "***" Guided by the important thinking of the Party, we must thoroughly implement the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. We must unswervingly regard development as the first priority to enrich the people and strengthen the town, take structural adjustment as the main line, establish a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development concept, be brave in innovation, Unite and work hard to create a brand of pollution-free vegetables from the Pearl River. In the secondary and tertiary industries, there is no limit on the development speed, development proportion, business scope, business method, and business scale. We will improve the system, optimize the industry, and relax Management, invigorating distribution, being bold in thinking, letting go in development, liberalizing the market, and being liberal in policy have brought new development to the non-public economy.

The Xiping Town Party Committee and *** attract funds, seize projects, attract foreign investment and private capital investment at multiple levels, and effectively attract, welcome, secure and enrich businessmen in agriculture, industry, ecological construction, Green resources, characteristic resource development, infrastructure, real estate, tourism, etc. have been introduced in all aspects. Zhujiangyuan Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. has established a 3,000-acre pollution-free vegetable base and science and technology demonstration park with an annual output value of more than 10 million yuan. Minghao Group, Sinopec The group invested in the construction of a new hardware and building materials street and a farmer's market. Now Xiping Town's suburban economy integrating vegetables, fruits, ecology, breeding, and service industries has been basically formed. The national economy of Xiping Town has continued to With healthy and rapid development, people's living standards have undergone earth-shaking changes, and various social undertakings have made comprehensive progress.

In 2004, the total rural social output value reached 256.43 million yuan; the per capita net income of farmers reached 2,885 yuan; fiscal revenue grew rapidly, with total fiscal revenue reaching 20 million yuan.

Xiping Town Party Committee *** firmly establishes the concept of "let others get rich and seek your own development" and the concept of all-round opening to the outside world, and advocates that "one farmer supports one person, one business supports ten people, and one enterprise supports Based on the development concept of "one hundred people", we vigorously promote urbanization construction, strive to create a market environment, policy environment, and legal environment that accelerate the development of secondary and tertiary industries. We warmly welcome all people of insight to invest in Xiping and seek development. Big plan.

Xiping Town, known as "Little Santai", is a national Ministry of Construction and provincial key town, a provincial health town, and a municipal civilized and hygienic small town.

It covers an area of ??77.31 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 4 offices, 6 neighborhood committees, 36 villages, and 313 village (resident) groups. The total population is 54,710 people and the cultivated land area is 47,520 acres.

The bamboo and straw weaving industry in Xiping Town has begun to take shape, and the agricultural products are very abundant.

In the next five years, the overall goal of Xiping Town’s economic and social development is: vigorously implement the 533” project and the “Industrial 500 Million Project”, and strive to achieve a total industrial output value of 450 million yuan and a total agricultural output of 450 million yuan by the end of 2007. The output value is 130 million yuan, the fiscal revenue is 7.83 million yuan, and the per capita net income reaches 3,000 yuan.

Focus on the development and construction of Wu Family Ancestral Hall, Xiping Middle School, Yangjiawan Area and Panlong Park. Promote the urbanization process.

Consolidate the achievements of provincial-level health towns and actively strive to create provincial-level civilized towns.

Improve preferential policies to encourage people from all walks of life to build houses, do business and run businesses in the town. Build Xiping into the central market town of West Road, vigorously develop the private economy, accelerate enterprise reform, and support a number of key enterprises to increase their scale, upgrade their grades, and increase their efficiency.

Increase efforts to attract investment and fully complete the tasks assigned by the county government. The "13151" special project has recruited 1 leading agricultural industrialization enterprise, 3 professional associations, 10 characteristic villages, 50 characteristic societies, and 100 large professional households.

Vigorously develop the poultry breeding industry. Bamboo straw weaving and labor export

Xiping Middle School: Xiping Middle School in Santai County, Sichuan Province is located on the bank of the beautiful Kaijiang River at the southern end of Xipingchang Town. Due to historical reasons, the school was originally a rural high school. , it was not until December 2004 that it became a complete middle school with the approval of the Provincial Department of Education.

At the Mianyang City Education Work Conference, Xiping Middle School was mentioned many times; at the Mianyang City Senior High School Work Commendation Meeting. , Xiping Middle School has won awards year after year; Xiping Middle School has been established as "Sichuan Province School Spirit Demonstration School", "Sichuan Province Qualified High School", and "Mianyang City Demonstration Ordinary High School", achieving three major historical leaps in three years.

Xiping Junior High School, Mingde Primary School and other educational resources are rich, nourishing the seedlings on the land of Xiping, and bringing the children of Xiping to the north and south of the motherland like spring breeze and rain.

The spring breeze turns into rain and the scenery is beautiful, the spring blossoms and autumn bear fruit, and we have overcome all obstacles to reach this proud day