Where is Yushan Town, Pengshui County, Chongqing Municipality Located

Yushan Town, Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing Municipality, where the story of "Qian Zhi Donkey" takes place. Located in southeast Chongqing bordering Hunan and Guizhou, it covers an area of 149.6 square kilometers and has a population of 42,000, including 12,000 urban residents.

The ancient salt road is curved, and the stone street is quiet. The county has been established for two thousand years, and the town has been built for seven hundred years. The town has been built for seven hundred years. It has been a glorious history of Yandan; the valley has been immortalized in the words of a talented man. The three rivers converge, and the pastoral flute of the setting sun is heard on both sides of the river; the traffic on all sides has small bridges and flowing water, and things are dispersed in eight directions. Dragon boat flooding waves, ten thousand people in unison with the sound of a huge wave; Lion Dance Teng Alley, a thousand palace lights night sky. Ancient wells and old houses, Qin brick and Han tile overflow handsome color; old alley Chen Street, the old brewing new cooking floats strange fragrance. There is an ancient town in Bayu, where the phoenix lives in Yushan.

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Historical origin

Tracing back to ancient times, 5,000 years ago, the local Pu people (ancestors of the Miao people) discovered one of the two natural salt springs out of the surface of the Southwest region at that time - Yushan Fushan Salt Springs, and then take the water to extract salt, the beginning of the Yushan 5,000 years of the course of the wind and rain (Ren Naiqiang, "A New Exploration of the History of Sichuan"). New Exploration of the Ancient History of Sichuan"). Xia Shang to the Spring and Autumn for the Ba important economic lifeline, the Warring States period, Yu Shan with its important strategic position for the group of males, successively for the Chu, Qin plundered, the first year of the Western Han Dynasty (140 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set Fuling County, the rule of Yu Shan (hereinafter referred to as the administrative institutions of the seat of the town of Yu Shan are set up in the present-day Yu Shan); Shu Han Zhangwu first year (221 years) set up the Fuling County; the North and South Dynasties of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Bao Dinh four years (564 years) set up Fengzhou, the state, the state, the state of the state, the state of the state, the state and the state of the state, the state and the state of the state. 564 years (AD 564) set up Fengzhou, ten years later changed to Qianzhou; Sui Wendi Kaihuang thirteen years (AD 593) set up Pengshui County; Tang Gaozu Wude first year (AD 618) set up Qianzhou; Xuanzong Kaiyuan twenty-one years (AD 733) set up QianZhongDao, one of the fifteen Tang Dao, led by fifty states; Song Jiadingyuan year (AD 1228), because of the "Salt Springs flow Baiyu In the first year of Song Jiading (1228 AD), due to "salt springs flow white jade" and set Yushan Town; Ming Jingtai first year (1450 AD) due to avoiding (Daizong Zhu Qiyu on the throne) was renamed Yushan Town; Qing Yongzheng twelve years (1734 AD) set the Qianpeng Military and Civil Affairs Office, jurisdiction over Youyang, Xiushan, Qianjiang, Pengshui four counties. To sum up, the history of the development and utilization of the salt industry in Yushan reached more than 5,000 years, since the Western Han Dynasty, Jianyuanyuan (140 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set Fuling County to the Xuanzong Kaiyuan twenty-one years (733 AD) set up the Qianzhong Road, Yushan successively for the county, the county, the state (equivalent to the land and administrative agencies), the Road (equivalent to the province and administrative agencies) seat of the rule of law, lasted for nearly 1,000 years, from the first year of the Song Dynasty Jia Ding (1228 AD) set up the Yushan Town to the present, the history of the established town. Since the first year of Song Jiading (1228 AD) set up Yushan Town to date, the establishment of the town history of up to 777 years, a thousand years of the ancient town is worthy of the name.

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Cultural heritage

Yushan salt town, more than 5,000 years of salt development history, breeding a rich and colorful Yushan culture. "The culture of the Yushan area is characterized by the boiling of salt, the mining of dan, the gathering of people, the development of local industries, and the dredging of waterways for transportation" (Ren Naiqiang, "A New Exploration of the Ancient History of Sichuan"). In the long process of history, the local people in the process of conquering and transforming nature created a regional culture with strong characteristics in the party, after thousands of years of dissolution and refinement, has been y solidified in the Yu Shan as the center of a wide range of ethnic groups in the region in various areas of production and life, derived from the salt and Dan culture, town culture, dietary culture, architectural culture, folk culture, and so on, a series of cultural varieties.

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Salt Dan Culture

The long history of the development of Salt Dan has gradually formed a whole set of salt well excavation, protection, brine collection, refining, brine concentration, steaming, salt packaging, transportation of unique technology and alchemy technology, salt refining tools manufacturing technology, salt springs and health care function research, while leaving behind a lot of relics and sites related to Salt Dan and the beautiful legends and stories. The development of the salt industry has driven the local economic development and social progress, and promoted the rise of other industries, especially commerce, coal, transportation, food, manufacturing, construction and other industries, while contributing to the rise and development of towns and cities, so that a variety of cultures have arisen one after another.

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Town Culture

As a historical town, in the special atmosphere of being a regional administrative and economic center for a long time, and under the impetus of literati (Huang Tingjian was relegated to live in Yushan in the Song Dynasty) and enlightened government (He Long was stationed in Yushan during the Republican period), Yushan has formed a unique town culture. In terms of rap art, new art forms such as Sichuan Opera Sitting and Singing (locally known as "Wai Drum") and Da Yuan Shuo Shu (locally known as "Shuo Huaishu") were created; in terms of literature and art, Huang Tingjian, who had been banished to live in the town, left behind a lot of famous pieces of writing that have been written for ages, including "The Song of the Dragon", written by Huang Tingjian in Yushan (then known as Qianzhou), which was written by Huang Tingjian. In terms of literature and art, Huang Tingjian left behind many ancient masterpieces because he had been banished here, and the famous line in his "Bamboo Branch Lyrics" written in Yushan (then known as Qianzhou), "Don't say that you are far away from the Ghost Gate, and that you are all brothers within the Four Seas," is especially recited by everyone. The master of literature of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan, based on the anecdotes of Qianzhou, made "Qian Zhi Donkey", which is even better known to women and children, and is a household name. Under the influence of the master, the local literary style is especially revered, and many people have been writing books and making speeches, and after the liberation of the local literature, calligraphy, art, photography and other works of art have won many awards in national, provincial and municipal competitions, which has nurtured many literary and calligraphic artists; in terms of mass sports activities, it has produced a Dragon Boat Race at the Dragon Boat Festival (which has been awarded the title of the hometown of the Dragon Boat at the provincial and municipal levels), and a Lantern and Lion Dance at Lantern Festival, which is a highly participatory sports event. The mass participation of the strong sports projects, while the communities have set up a drum team, dragon and lion dance team, regularly organizing a variety of cultural and sports activities, the enthusiasm of the masses to participate in sports activities, and become a locally renowned sports town, cultural town.

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Dietary culture

Long in the center of the regional town, driven by the salt industry, the town's business, especially the rapid development of the catering industry, the formation of a large number of characteristics of the production of food, the production of the main content of the unique charm of the food culture. Produced in the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing years of Yushan rolling pastry thin skin thick filling, crispy and soft, not greasy, once for the royal tribute; produced in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years of Yushan crystal silk camphor, crystal clear, soft and refreshing, famous for the north and south; chickpea flowers, three incense, all rolls, sticky rice patties and so on is the beauty of the far-flung local food, favored by the local people and merchants passing by.

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Architectural Culture

The strong support of the salt economy has given rise to a representative national architectural style in the large area centered on Yushan. Walking horse corner house of the courtyard, high walls of the Tujia compound, foot-hanging buildings of the Miao house, sealing fire wall towering stone streets wooden houses, carved window panes, carved stone pillar base, garden wells, through the teasing pattern, the strange eaves and arches, Ming and Qing Dynasty atmosphere, come to the surface.

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Folk culture

Multi-ethnic long-term **** with life, mutual influence, mutual dissolution, **** with the creation of distinctive folk culture. Tujia "hand dance" and the Miao "flower mountain" as the representative of the national dance, thousands of years of the Miao folk songs and Tujia songs, with distinctive characteristics of the Miao, soil clothing, marriage, birthday, funeral, sacrificial rites, production and living supplies, constitutes a typical Yushan folk culture.

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Transportation

Yushan Town is located in the northeast corner of Pengshui County, and Qianjiang District and Shizhu County adjacent to the county seat of Pengshui County, 47 kilometers away from the National Highway 319 and the Yushan River through the city, the new Yu Huaian Railway and the secondary highway through the whole territory, convenient transportation.

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Cultural relics and sites

Currently there are nearly ten cultural relics protection units at all levels, among which Huang Tingjian Clothes Mound, Tang Crown Prince Li Chengqian's Tomb, He Long's Moral and Political Monument, and the ancient Salt Wells are all very precious, while Han bricks and Han tombs, monumental inscriptions of the past dynasties, and old-fashioned buildings abound.

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Natural Scenery

Since ancient times, Yushan this side of the water and soil will raise a party of love for nature, respect for nature Yushan people, the formation of harmony with nature and the pure and simple folk style, the countryside everywhere showing a leisurely and quiet, the sunset pastoral flute, the rustic scenery of the birds cooking, the town shows a faction of the ancient banyan according to the building, the small bridges and rivers, the town of children and men swim back to the town style. The town shows a small town flavor with ancient banyan trees, small bridges and flowing water, and children swimming back. At the same time, Yu Shan territory of the three distinctive rivers, but also the formation of the green mountains, beautiful water, strange holes, strange rocks in one of the Yu Shan scenic belt, become a thousand miles on the Wujiang River Gallery a bright pearl.

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Economic potential

Yushan town in history has long been the regional economic center, in the early 1980s is still the county's first economic town, but with the country's macro-economic structural adjustment and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, so that the traditional industry as the leading industry of the Yushan economy weakened for a time, but the Yushan has a wealth of natural resources, rich human resources and beautiful ecological resources. But Yushan has rich natural resources, rich humanities and beautiful ecological resources, with obvious development potential.

Under the leadership of Pengshui County 0, Yushan Town has put forward "to create tourism, revitalize the ancient town of wind" development slogan, in accordance with the requirements of the scientific concept of development, the formulation of the current and future work ideas, and is now grasping to do a good job in all the preparatory work for the ushering in a new round of the development of the town to usher in a new round of the peak to lay a solid foundation, we believe: Ancient town of tomorrow will be better!

July 31, 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture identified Yushan town for the third batch of national village a product demonstration villages and towns (Yushan crystal silk camphor).