The Historical Evolution of Weixin Town

Xianyangping starts from Xiefengyan in Sansheng Township in the east and reaches Lianghekou in Weixin Town in the west. The north and south mountains are continuous, and the Xianyang River flows from east to west, with a total length of more than 20 kilometers ... There are many valley plains on both sides of the river, with several hills in the middle, fertile soil and flat terrain. Fields are connected with buildings and rich products. It is the main rice producing area, including wheat, potatoes, beans, tung, tea and bamboo. "Wu's Genealogy" contains: "Most people who have achieved immortality are in the city." Therefore, it is called "Forty-five Ping" and "Golden Xianyang". Underground mineral resources are also rich, including pyrite, stone coal and limestone. Weixin Town is a sandbar on the north bank of Xianyang River and an important market town in the middle of Shimen County. It is now the seat of Weixin Town Government, located 58 kilometers southeast of the county seat. In the early 1940s, some vendors moved from Jiujianpu and began to set up stalls in the sand on the north bank of Xianyang River. Later, when I saw that the business was booming, I began to build shops and became a market town, which was called Weixin Town in the Book of Songs. The town was set up at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic, and 1986 set up the town again. 1995, the original Weixin Town, Yuan Gong Du Xiang Town and Dushui Town were merged into Weixin Town.

Weixin Town used to be the distribution center of tung oil, tallow, flue-cured tobacco and other local products in Xianyang River and Dushui River basins, with a farmer's market and prosperous livestock trade. Weixin Town is also a transportation hub in the central mountainous area of Shimen, with highways extending in all directions. Liu Jiayu and Dujiagang in Xianyang, Zhong Ping are old revolutionary areas. Liu Jiayu on the south bank of Xianyang is the hometown of Zeng Qingxuan's martyrs. The left and right mountains are opposite, with a stream flowing northward in the middle, Jingjiaya in the south and Du Jiayuan in the north. During the Great Revolution, Zeng Qingxuan, a member of Shimen County Committee of the Communist Party of China, established party branches and peasant associations in Liu Jiayu, Dujiagang and Diping on 1926. After the "Ma Ri" Incident, Comrade He Long came here to carry out revolutionary activities, and personally appointed Zeng Qingxuan, then secretary of the Shimen County Party Committee, as the guerrilla commander of the Hunan-Hubei border region. During his lifetime, the martyr Zeng Qingxuan took the word "General yangsi" in the nearby Hengyan Temple as a portrayal, and took the word "Hengyan" as the title, and wrote "The horizontal axe killed all the local tyrants and evil gentry in the world; The propaganda couplet "Living Buddha on the Rock saves the poor peasants and red workers in the world" is still engraved in people's hearts. After the sacrifice of Qing Xuan, his father Zeng Huanzhi continued to persist in the underground revolutionary struggle. Huang Ao, chief of staff of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, also died here in the battle. Dujiagang was the birthplace of the first peasant association in Dongshimen County from 65438 to 0926. Then, farmers' associations were established all over the county, and the peasant movement was in full swing. 1930 10, Jia Guoxiang once established the "Shenyang District Soviet Government" in Dujiagang. 1935, He Long and Shawk troops entered in February, and more than 100 people joined the Red Army. At present, there are "Qingxuan Primary School" and the tomb of Zeng Qingxuan Martyrs in Liu Jiayu. There is an ancient city dike along the Xianyang River in Zhong Ping, which was an ancient city during the Warring States Period. During Jin Taikang's reign, it was under the jurisdiction of Shuyang County. The remnants of the city wall can still be identified. There are also sites of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Gutianping Tusi Jingmiao Temple, Xishaguan, and the old Wangyuan Pass. Hot springs, Yuxia River, etc.