Does anyone know the history of Wangdu?

Wangdu was known as Qingdu in ancient times, and is now known as the "Spicy Capital".

Wangdu County is located in the central plains of Hebei Province, west of the towering Taihang, looking east of the Miles Pingchuan, north of the ancient city of Baoding, 187 kilometers away from the capital of Beijing, Tianjin 170 kilometers, 98 kilometers away from the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang in the south; Beijing-Shenzhen Expressway, 107 National Highway, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway across the border, Wangan, Wang Shun, Wang Qing, Wang Tang, the four county highways are crisscrossed with all the way through the city.

Wangdu territory covers a total area of 374 square kilometers, 340,000 acres of arable land, with jurisdiction over 2 towns and 6 townships, 147 administrative villages and a population of 261,000 people. Here the natural conditions are superior, the soil layer is deep, the soil is fertile, the average annual precipitation is 500 millimeters, the average annual sunshine is 2,580 hours, the average annual frost-free period is 191 days, which is suitable for the growth of various crops. Groundwater resources 102 million cubic meters, good water quality, suitable for drinking and irrigation. The county has a well-developed farmland forest network, with a forest cover rate of 18.3%, making it a national-level advanced plains greening county.

This is the hometown of Yao mother. The ancient name of Wangdu is Qingdu, which is the birthplace of Qingdu, the mother of Yao Emperor, one of the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors". According to historical records, Yao Di, the ancient benevolent ruler, lived in Yao Mountain in present-day Shunping County, and Yao's mother, Chen Feng's Qingdu, lived in Du Mountain. Yao Di often climbed Yao Mountain and looked south at Du Mountain, and named the area around Du Mountain as Qingdu Yi after his mother's name Qingdu in order to express his nostalgia for his mother. To the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, Gaozu toured here, thought that the Holy Mother Qingdu named the name of the place seems to be disrespectful, so change Qingdu for Wangdu. The long history of Wangdu has accumulated a profound cultural heritage. The Yao Mother Mausoleum, Yao Emperor Temple, and Han Sun Cheng Tomb show the high and brilliant art of architecture and frescoes; the widely circulated Yao Mother Legend and simple Pepper Township style have laid the foundation of Wangdu culture; and the local opera "Xinying Tune" created by the folk artists in the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty has become the unique drama in China.

Splendid culture has given birth to generations of cultural celebrities who are famous in ancient and modern times and at home and abroad: at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a generation of martial arts master Sun Lutang, whose ancestral home is in Dongrentong village of Wangdu, learned extensively and learned extensively, and set the essence of Xingyi, Bagua and Taijiquan in one furnace, and created Sun's Taijiquan, which is unique in martial arts and is renowned both at home and abroad, and has filled up the world with peaches and plums. Famous scholars Hu Houxuan, Department of Wangdu Dawangzhuang people, he spent his life's work, dedicated to the study of oracle bones, the book "Oracle Bone Collection", a milestone, by the people of the country as "China's Oracle Bone Research First". Famous film performer village, Wangdu Dongguan village people, in the "red flag spectrum", "ah, cradle", "Chen Huan Sheng on the city" and many other classic film and television drama, with a unique artistic style, created a variety of character images, the farmers of northern China naive simplicity and rich vernacular expression of the fullest ......

< p>This is the hometown of chili peppers. Since ancient times, Wangdu has been a treasure, the soil is fertile and water is beautiful, known as "the township of pearl spring ten thousand dendrobiums". According to the county records, after the king of yan swept the north in ming dynasty, in order to replenish manpower, restore production, immigrate here from Shanxi, bring chili pepper seeds, chili peppers have settled in wangdu from now on. Due to Wangdu fertile soil, high content of trace elements, and then by generations of Wangdu people screening and purification, cultivated a unique Wangdu sheep's horns pepper. It resembles the horn of a sheep, with deep red color, thick skin and flesh, large oiliness, moderate spiciness and strong fragrance. According to the technical test, every hundred grams of Wangdu pepper contains 9.8 grams of protein, 3.7 grams of fat, 27.2 grams of crude fiber, but also contains vitamin A, vitamin B1, B2 and vitamin C, as well as a large amount of organic iron, phosphorus, calcium and other trace elements, of which the content of vitamin C is 9 times that of tomatoes. The Compendium of Materia Medica is said to have the efficacy of "dispersing cold and removing warmth, resolving depression, eliminating food accumulation, passing the three jiao, warming the spleen and stomach, replenishing the right kidney and vital organs, sterilizing and stopping diarrhea". Wangdu chili pepper from the Qing Dynasty began large-scale commercial production, the end of the Qing Dynasty, with its excellent quality and large-scale planting, won the "hot" reputation, and Shandong Yidu (now Qingzhou), Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and known as China's chili pepper "three".

After the establishment of new China, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, Wangdu county party committee and county government adopted a series of preferential policies to encourage and support the development of chili pepper industry. 1990s, the county chili pepper planting area of perennial maintenance of 50,000 acres, with a total production of 8 million kilograms, and in the Caojia Village, Longzhuang, Hanzhuang has three larger chili pepper market, forming a radiation nationwide. 30 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) of the purchase and sale network, the annual distribution of chili 40 million kilograms, is one of China's largest chili pepper distribution center in the north. County chili pepper processing enterprises 96, of which more than 4 large-scale enterprises, the annual processing of 20 million kilograms of chili. Vigorously develop deep processing of chili pepper, improve raw material formula and production process, has developed a spicy oil, spicy sauce, spicy silk, spicy crumbles, spicy circle, spicy block, spicy powder, spicy crisp, pickled pepper, etc. Different flavors, different processes of 9 series of more than 80 varieties, exported to Southeast Asia and Europe and the United States market. 2002, was named "Hebei chili pepper township ".

Entering the new century, Wangdu county party committee and county government lead the people of the county to closely around the overall goal of building a moderately prosperous society and "leapfrog development, revitalization of the hot all" the fundamental task, and carry forward the "tree of righteousness, unity and development," the theme, and unswervingly implement the "opening up" policy, to promote the development of the country. Unswervingly implement the "opening up the county, industrial county, private enterprises to strengthen the county" three major strategies, to seize the project construction, structural adjustment, private economy, urban construction and management of the four priorities, seize the opportunity to innovate, unity and hard work, do figure strong, the county's economic and social development in a healthy and rapid manner.