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What is the story of "An'an sending rice" in Deyang Dexiaocheng?

Speaking of the origin of the place name Deyang, there is a story that has been widely circulated since the Yuan Dynasty: In the early years of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty, the Taoist immortal Xu Xun served as the magistrate of Jingyang County because he could turn stones into gold and help the poor. , painted talisman water to get rid of the plague and be virtuous to the people, the imperial court ordered to change Jingyang County to Deyang County. According to historical research, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiangyou Xiaoxiba and Suining Longfengchang have successively established counties in the name of Deyang, and then canceled them. It was not until the third year of Emperor Wude of the Tang Dynasty (AD 620) that they were "divided into Luoxian County and Mianzhu County". Deyang County". The name of Deyang finally took root here and never changed again. Xiaoquan Town's "One Family and Three Filial Piety" stories, "Jiang Shi Filial Piety", "Emerging Spring and Jumping Carp", and "An'an Sending Rice", are known as the first of the "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" and have become a model of virtuous and filial piety culture. The Confucius Temple in Deyang, a small county town, is actually the largest in the southwest. The eight characters "Daoguan Ancient and Modern" and "Depei Tiandi" engraved on the east and west gates seem to indicate that morality is the "spiritual root" of this land. ". For more than 1,300 years, people living under the Bell and Drum Tower and Longhu Relic Pagoda have followed Confucian moral teachings and continued the traditional folk customs of virtue and filial piety, and have erected a unique monument with the word "De" in the plains of western Sichuan. In the 1980s, when Deyang grew and became the homeland of 3.8 million people, along with the tremendous economic and social progress, her cultural tastes were further sublimated, and the culture of virtue and filial piety has become a special feature of Deyang. business card. Today, Dadeyang has celebrated its 20th birthday, and facing the rising sun of the 21st century, it has embarked on the journey of "completely building Dadeyang, advancing new leaps, building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and taking the lead in basically realizing modernization." Standing on the new historical coordinates, it is necessary for us Deyang people to dig deeper into the cultural connotation of "Deyang" and make a newer interpretation. The author believes that the best expression of the connotation of "Deyang" is: virtuous government is like Yang, and virtue is like Yang. Virtuous government is like the sun - what is virtuous government? The explanation of "Advanced Chinese Dictionary" is that "refers to political measures and political achievements that are beneficial to the people." The ancients said: "The best kindness is like water, and virtue is carried in everything." "The way to govern a country is to love the people." ". "When spring brings prosperity to Deyang, everything will be glorious." We hope that our teams and leading cadres at all levels in Deyang City will adhere to the "Three Represents", be honest and honest, diligent and pragmatic, govern for the people, and ensure that power is used by the people and sentiments are used by the people. The relationship is to benefit the people, love for the people is as warm as the sun, governance for the people is as transparent as the sun, and practical things that benefit the people are like the sun shining in all directions. Virtue is like Yang - Virtue, that is, moral character. "Zhou Li·Di Guan" notes: "Virtue is called internal and external, it is virtue in the heart, and it is behavior to give it." The ancients believed that only when a place "suits its virtues and conforms to its constitutional government" can it prosper and be strong, "make it surpass the princes" and surpass other places. People in Deyang should build the city with virtues, vigorously build spiritual civilization, establish social ethics, strengthen professional ethics, and promote family virtues, so as to make Deyang a civilized town, so that people who come to Deyang to invest, start businesses, travel, and visit relatives and friends will feel like a bath of spring. Let the people of the city create a happy and beautiful new life under the sunshine of socialist morality. "Now that all the dangers and obstacles are gone, I begin to rejoice in the vastness of the wilderness." This is a precise summary of Deyang in the poem "Lutou Mountain" by Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. Deyang belongs to the Dujiangyan Irrigation District, with a mild climate, fertile land and abundant rainfall. It is an important production base for grain, oil, cotton, pigs, silkworms and tobacco in Sichuan Province, and is known as the "Tianfu Granary". Deyang's heavy industry, led by Erzhong, Dongdian and Dongfang, has formed a national heavy-duty domestic equipment base, and its light industry, represented by Jiannanchun, Lanjian and Shifang Tobacco Factory, has formed the backbone of the tertiary industry and is known as an emerging industrial city. Deyang is rich in underground mineral resources. There are more than 30 proven mineral deposits, including considerable reserves of phosphate rock, coal mine, lime mine, sulfur-phosphorus aluminum-strontium ore and shallow natural gas. Among them, the phosphate rock is one of the five largest phosphate mines in the country.