Regional Characteristics of Daoqiao Town

Daoqiao Town is located in the mid-latitude, with a typical subtropical climate, distinct cold and warm seasons and abundant rainfall. The annual average temperature is about 15℃, the historical extreme maximum temperature is 38.6℃, the extreme minimum temperature is-14℃, and the frost-free period is about 243 days. Rainwater is mostly concentrated in summer, with an average annual rainfall of 1.065 mm, an average annual sunshine of 3046 hours, an annual evaporation of 1.5 1.8 ml and an average relative humidity of 79%. The perennial dominant wind direction is north in winter and south in summer, with an average wind speed of 3.2m/s and a maximum wind speed of 22.7m/s, and hail is rare.

Daoqiao Town belongs to the alluvial belt of Hanshui River Basin, located at the edge of Jianghan Plain, and the ancient cloud dream is at the end of the river. Its geological structure is a single sand layer, with muddy soil in the north and oily sand in the south. Flat and fertile terrain, criss-crossing canals and ponds. The basic features of its language are that the initial consonants zh, ch and sh are indistinguishable from the initial consonants Z, C and S, and that the lingual initial l is different from the lingual nasal initial n.. Then there is no difference between the front nasal vowel en and the back nasal vowel eng, and its language characteristics are sharp, crisp, simple, straight and strong.

Residents eat rice as their staple food, as well as miscellaneous grains and pasta. Generally, urban and rural residents have three meals a day, which is dry when they are busy and thin when they are idle. They eat rice at noon and evening, and their cooking is mainly fried, fried, stewed, fried and braised. Generally speaking, it is required to be crisp, slightly salty and spicy, thick but not greasy, rotten but not sticky. Daily dishes are mainly vegetables, sometimes accompanied by meat. Both bedrooms have small windows, shrines are set in the main hall for ancestors, their relatives and teachers to use, kitchens are mostly built in front of the hall, toilets and garbage are mostly located behind the house, and the basic means of transportation are bicycles, motorcycles, tricycles, cars and sedans.

The main solar terms are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Day, Women's Day, Arbor Day, Labor Day, Youth Day, Children's Day, the anniversary of the birth of the China Producers' Party on July 1st, the August 1st Army Day, the 90th Teacher's Day and the 11th National Day. Every festival has various forms.

The religions in the town are Taoism, Buddhism, Catholicism and Christianity.

The area is rich in tourism resources, including yuquan temple, Zhenxiu Temple, the monument of "Seeing the omen but not helping", the turret site of Japanese invaders, the Catholic Church, Luobeibao Temple and other historical sites.