How long is the history of Tantou Town, Shaoyang, Hunan Province

Tantou Town is located in the southeast of Longhui County, is located in Longhui, Shaoyang and Xinshao County junction, 30 kilometers from the county town, on the Rui Expressway Longhui exit 4 kilometers. The town has 87 villages, 3 neighborhood committees, 671 villagers groups, 18974 households, 74089 people, with a total area of 198.32 square kilometers, arable land area of 62846 acres, of which 43689 acres of paddy fields, 18906 acres of dry soil.

Tantou has a long history and splendid culture, founded in the Sui Dynasty, is one of the seventy-two ancient towns in the country, and is also the national modern "hometown of folk culture and painting", and is now listed as a key town in Hunan's "Tenth Five-Year Plan" for the construction of small towns. Tantou New Year paintings, incense paper and color paper are commonly known as "Tantou three greats", which are famous both at home and abroad. Especially, Tantou New Year Painting is the only traditional woodblock handmade watermarked New Year Painting in Hunan, which is one of the "Four Great New Year Paintings" in China, and it won the Silver Prize in "China Folk Art Exhibition" organized by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China in 1994; and it won the Silver Prize in the First China Folk Craft and Art Exhibition organized by the Society of Cultural Relics of China in 2003. In 2003, it won the gold medal in the first China Folk Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by China Cultural Relics Society. China's literary giant Mr. Lu Xun, the first collection of the catalog of New Year's Paintings is Tantou New Year's Paintings, "Chunan Tantan Town, newly engraved rats marrying the whole book". Now Tantou New Year's Paintings have been listed as the national key salvage of cultural relics.

Tantou beautiful mountains and water, people and spirit. The rolling hills, the verdant bamboo, the crystal-clear water of the caves, and the simple folklore add to the aura of Tantou. The famous scholar professor Li Jiannong was born here, he is a member of the League of Leaguers, has followed Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing revolution, successively studied in Japan, Britain, academic profundity, authored "China's economic history", "Introduction to political science", etc., advocated the "Songpo Middle School" (now Longhui first predecessor), served as chairman of the board of directors. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, senior generals Liu Jianzhang (Deputy Commander of the New 6 Army) and Li Tao (Commander of the 22nd Division) led the Expeditionary Forces to fight against Japanese fascism in India and Burma in cooperation with the Allied Forces, and their battles yielded a lot of results.

Tantou characteristic resources are very rich. Tian Ying stone is a unique mineral in the world, the reserves are relatively rich, with skin care and beauty health care a variety of functions, the development prospects are very optimistic. The paper made from Tianyin stone has a good reputation both at home and abroad. The paper processing with nanzhu as raw material has a long history, starting from the Ming Dynasty. Tantou color paper in the Qianlong period for the court tribute, is also for this reason, Tantou Town, once said "Tantou port is small, forty-eight money and rice flow," the beauty of the name.

In recent years, the town party committee, the government attaches great importance to the construction of town infrastructure, the development of specialty industries and agricultural and sideline product production and processing. Has invested in the completion of the Shuanglong Development Zone, the East Development Zone infrastructure construction; beach head mud bath villa, beach head paper industrial park, beach head paper workshop and the New Year's Eve paintings Bo Yi village has been fully launched; now has 10,000 acres of bamboo base, 10,000 acres of baking tobacco base, 1,000 acres of hybrid seed production and mixed grains Haniwa base. Pumpkin-based agricultural and sideline processing bases have also begun to put into production, the development trend is good, the prospects are very broad.

In order to speed up the economic development of the beach head, enhance the town taste, the town party committee, the government in the hardware infrastructure construction at the same time, vigorously optimize the economic environment, increase investment efforts, and the introduction of relevant preferential policies. Beach head has become the most ideal place for investment, beach head people warmly welcome people at home and abroad to come to sightseeing tours, investment and business.