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History, geography, customs and customs of Yuncheng

Yuncheng is named after the "City of Salt Transportation". It is the hometown of Guan Yu, a famous scholar in Shu and Han Dynasties. It is located at the junction of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces, in the golden position of the Yellow River Golden Triangle economic circle. It borders Luliang Mountain in the north, Zhongtiao Mountain in the east, Jincheng in the west, Weinan City in Shaanxi Province and Sanmenxia City in Henan Province across the Yellow River in the south and west. The whole city has jurisdiction over 1 district, 2 cities,1county, 146 townships (offices) and 3,338 administrative villages. The rural population of the city is 35 1 10,000, accounting for 7 1%. The total cultivated land area of the city is 8.773 million mu, and the per capita cultivated land of agricultural population is 2. 15 mu. It is one of the top ten charming cities of CCTV in 2006.

Yuncheng has a long history and is one of the earliest birthplaces of the Chinese nation. About 6.5438+0.8 million years ago, there were human activities here. Puban, Shundu, Anyi, Xiaxia, the first dynasty of slavery society in China were all here. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it belonged to the State of Jin, and its capital was Yujiang (now Jiangxian) in 669 BC. After Han, Zhao and Wei were divided into Jin, Yuncheng belonged to Wei. At that time, the capital of Wei was in Anyi (the area around Yuwangcheng in the county this summer). Qin Shihuang unified China and established 36 counties. Yuncheng belongs to Hedong County and governs Anyi. Since then, it has been built frequently for more than two thousand years, but it has always been used to calling this area "Hedong". After the founding of New China, Yuncheng Society was established. 1954, Yuncheng and Linfen were merged into Jinnan area. 1970, cancel Jinnan area and re-establish Yuncheng area. In June 2000, with the approval of the State Council, Yuncheng City was established in the area where Yuncheng was removed. ?

Yuncheng is full of humanities, talented people and splendid culture. Famous businessmen in the Spring and Autumn Period, thinker Xun Kuang and strategist Lian Po in the Warring States Period, famous Guan Yu in the Three Kingdoms Period, scientist Pei Xiu in the Western Jin Dynasty, educator Wang Tong in the Sui Dynasty, litterateurs Wang Ji, Wang Bo and Wang Wei in the early Tang Dynasty, statesman and litterateur Liu Zongyuan in the middle Tang Dynasty, historian Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty, dramatist Guan Hanqing in the Yuan Dynasty, and Wen Xi Pei's family, all of whom have produced 59 prime ministers in history. There are many places of interest in the city, and there are more than 600 cultural relics tourist attractions/kloc-0, including 22 national cultural relics protection units. Known at home and abroad are Jiezhou Guandi Temple, Wuzu Temple, Yongji Stork Tower, Ruicheng Yongle Palace, Yongji Pujiu Temple, where the Romance of the West Chamber took place, China Wanrong Houtu Temple, Yuncheng Salt Lake in the Sea of Death, Shundi Mausoleum in Salt Lake, Tieniu of the Yellow River, Wanrong Qiu Feng Tower in Xia County, etc. ?

Yuncheng is a traditional agricultural area with flat terrain, mild climate, fertile soil and abundant sunshine. The average annual rainfall is 525mm, the sunshine is 2350 hours, the temperature is 13 degrees Celsius, and the frost-free period is 2 12 days, so the agricultural production conditions are superior. Historically, beautiful legends related to agriculture, such as "Silkworm Raising in Lei Zu", "Harvest in Hou Ji" and "Shun Li Gengshan", all happened here. Four or five thousand years ago, the ancestors of Hedong had mastered the technology of planting sorghum, which was the first of its kind in China. More than 3000 years ago, working people established agricultural strongholds in the Yellow River and Fenhe River basins. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, due to the development of agriculture and population, the famous city Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang) rose in the Fenhe River Basin here. After the founding of New China, Yuncheng has been a wheat and cotton base in Shanxi Province and even the whole country. 13 of the counties (cities, districts), 1 1 was once listed as a commodity grain base county in Shanxi Province, among which 6 were identified as national commodity grain base counties and 2 were listed as national commodity cotton base counties, which was once called "Ukraine in Shanxi". In recent years, five leading industries, fruit, livestock, vegetables, grain and cotton, have been formed by insisting on adjusting production through science and technology, and the ratio of grain to economy has been adjusted from 8: 2 in the past to 5: 5. Apples alone amount to more than 3 million mu, making it one of the national high-quality fruit bases. The number of leading enterprises has grown to 232, and 32 have begun to take shape, driving 220,000 farmers in the city to engage in industrialized operation. Suhai, Zhong Min and Xinjiang vegetable industry groups have entered the ranks of national key leading enterprises.

The top ten famous agricultural products in the city are: wheat, cotton, apples, Jishan jujube, Wangguosu pear, Jiangxian hawthorn, Zhou Pu persimmon, Linjin sauce jade melon, Wanrong yellow cattle and Yellow River carp. A number of high-quality agricultural products have entered the capital and international markets. ?

Yuncheng is an important part of Shanxi energy and heavy chemical industry base, and it is also a new industrial base in Shanxi Province.

There are Nanfeng Group, the largest inorganic salt chemical base in China, Yuncheng Plate-making Group with the largest equipment scale in the world, Shanxi Aluminum Factory, the largest aluminum industrial base in Asia, Zhongtiaoshan Nonferrous Metals Company, the second largest copper smelting base in China, Yongji Electric Machine Factory, and other large enterprises. In recent years, six industrial clusters with regional characteristics have been initially formed. Namely: metallurgical industrial clusters such as aluminum and electrical materials joint venture, steel and magnesium industrial clusters, daily chemical, coal chemical and pharmaceutical industrial clusters, machinery and precision casting industrial clusters, new materials and glassware industrial clusters, agricultural and sideline products processing industrial clusters, and the tertiary industrial cluster dominated by tourism.

It has cultivated a number of large enterprises and groups with annual output values of 6,543.8 billion yuan, 3 billion yuan and more than 5 billion yuan, such as Haixin, Sunshine, Tongda, Zhenxing, Zhong Min, Suhai, Longmen, Nanfeng, Crown Aluminum, Plate Making, Yabao and Fengxi. Six private enterprises, including Haixin, Sunshine, Tongda, Zhenxing, Suhai and Longmen, entered the top 500 in China, and Haixin Group became the largest taxpayer of private enterprises in China. [ 1]