Author: Wang Qin
Here, is a humanistic holy place;
Here, it is a red hot land;
Here, it is a beautiful home;
Here, it is a vibrant county.
Here, it is a place suitable for living, working, business and travel;
Here, it is a civilized, open, rich and beautiful place.
Here, it is Tang Yao's legacy, jishan pillow water, joy and peace; innovation to pass on the torch, reform to create the future of the famous Yiqiang County.
Here, it is an auspicious and blessed place where Wuhua Tianbao, the spirit of the people, harvests success, is full of new hopes, and releases new dreams.
Here, there is a proud name - Qingxu
Qingxu, known as Terrier Yang in ancient times, was founded in the Spring and Autumn Period and has a history of more than 2,500 years. In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of King Xiang of Zhou (629 BC), the Jin state reviewed the army at Qingyuan and established five armies to defend against the Di people, and Zhao Wan became the secretary. The Yongle Canon records that Qingyuan is Qingyuan. In the autumn of the seventeenth year of the Ling King (555 BC), the Zhonghang sacrificed his son to see Wugao of the Yang Dynasty. Later, Terrier Yang became the Food Of Qi clan. In the autumn of the sixth year of King Jing(514 BC), the Jin state of Wei Xianzi took charge and divided the fields of the Qi clan into seven counties, of which Terrier Yang was one of them, which was the beginning of Terrier Yang becoming a county seat. In the twenty-third year of king Wei Lie (403 BC), the "three families were divided into Jin", the Spring and Autumn Period ended, the Warring States began, and the Yang belonged to Zhao. In the sixteenth year of the Sui Kai Emperor (596), Qingyuan County was established. In the 29th year of Jin Dading (1189), Xugou County was established in the eastern border of the county. In July 1952, Qingyuan and Xugou counties were merged, taking the first character of the names of the two counties and calling them Qingxu County. In 1958, it was transferred to Taiyuan City. The county has a total area of 609 square kilometers and a permanent population of 350,000, and is the southern gate of the provincial capital Taiyuan.
Historical records record that about 4,000 years ago, Yao Wang, a tribal leader in Tang County, Hebei Province, led the Tao and Tang tribes to move west on a large scale due to the local flood disaster, and crossed the Taihang to the foot of the Lüliang Mountains in jinzhong through the well path, which was the area around The village of Qingxu Yaocheng and Jinyuan District, and built the earliest capital city of China, "Tao Tang City". The Ming Yi Tongzhi said: "Emperor Yao moved from Zhuolu to this place, commonly known as Yao City. "Shanxi Tongzhi" volume 3: "Later due to flooding too much moved to Hedong Pingyang (present-day Linfen)", volume 164: "Emperor Yao was in Yao Town, the place where the old Tao and Tang dynasties were built, so the temple was erected." Because the yaocheng village in the region was once the place where the Yao Emperor built the capital, it was called "the first capital of China".
The hometown of fish and rice in Luxiang Vinegar Township, the cultural ancient city of Quancheng Lake City. Under the hidden mountain, through the hometown of The Middle, the colorful Qingxu, the name of the Yi Terrier Yang. Huanghuang vinegar capital, brilliant Portuguese township, breeze, spring water, red orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, landscape and forest field lake grass fragrance. The Baishi River flows from west to east from the north of Qingxu County, and the county seat buildings are built along the mountain and scattered in the north and south of the Baishi River. The long history exudes the fragrance of vinegar and grapes, and has accumulated the profound culture of qingxu people. The original Qingyuan Shi Dezheng, Zhongyi Xugou inheritance is strong; in the past, there were three kingdoms in Guanzhong, and now all the people in the dynasty are composed of Huazhang!
The red is light
"Red Flag Hunting, Red Heritage". Qingxu County is an old revolutionary area, which was once the forefront of the Jinsui revolutionary base area and has a glorious and fine revolutionary tradition.
Beginning in 1933, Early Qingxu County Party members Li Baosen and Li Yannian returned to their hometowns to organize progressive societies and spread revolutionary ideas. In October 1935, Wang Qingsheng, Dong Xianrui, Wang Jingzhu and other progressives organized a reading club in the yancun area of Qingxu County to publicize the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country.
In 1937, during the "Seven Incidents", Qingxu County established the Organization of the League of Thieves to consolidate the anti-Japanese united front and create conditions for the establishment of local organizations of the Communist Party of China. After the fall of Pingjin, all secondary schools and above in Taiyuan City were evacuated and relocated. In September, Chengcheng Middle School moved to Qingyuan County. At the same time as attending the class, teachers and students actively participated in the anti-Japanese rescue activities and brewed up the formation of an anti-Japanese armed force. On October 10, the Taiyuan Chengcheng Middle School Teachers and Students Anti-Japanese Volunteer Brigade (renamed "Chengzhong Teachers and Students Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Group" after the fall of Taiyuan) was established in the county seat of Qingyuan County. Peng Xuefeng, director of the Eighth Route Army's office in Taiyuan, and Cheng Zihua, director of the People's Armed Forces of the War Movement Federation, went to Qingyuan one after another to make an anti-Japanese mobilization report for the teachers and students of Chengcheng Middle School and the people of Qingyuan in Zhongshan Park. Subsequently, dozens of peasants from Dongyu entered the Jiaocheng Mountains with the "Chengcheng Middle School Volunteer Brigade" to participate in the anti-Japanese struggle.
On November 8, 1937, the Japanese army invaded Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, and the three counties of Qing, Tai and Xu fell one after another. Because the three counties of Qing, Tai, and Xu are adjacent, in order to facilitate leadership, the three counties were merged and the first party organization in the Qing Tai Xu area was established, the Qing Tai County Working Committee of the CPC. In the spring of 1938, the first rural party branch in Qingtai County was established in Shangyan Village. In July of the same year, the Qingtaixu Joint Committee of the Communist Party of China was born in the anti-Japanese flames. In July of the same year, the Qingtaixu Joint Committee of the Communist Party of China was born in the anti-Japanese flames, and since then, the anti-Japanese struggle of Qingtaixu has been carried out under the leadership of the party, and the history of Qingxu has opened a new page. After that, the Qingtaixu United County Committee of the CPC was reorganized into the Qingtaixu County Committee of the CPC, with 7 subordinate district committees, and at the same time set up anti-Japanese democratic governments in Qingxu and Taiyuan counties, and the political, military, unified, and mass system organizations in the Qingtaixu area developed rapidly, forming a new situation in which the party, government, military, and people united and resisted Japan. Since then, under the leadership of the party, the people of Qingtaixu have carried out the struggle against traitors and hegemony, established an anti-Japanese armed force, and constantly set off an upsurge of the anti-Japanese movement to save the dead. In the autumn of 1941, the Japanese Kou carried out "strengthening public order" and mobilized heavy troops to carry out a "great sweep" of the Qingtaibian Mountains, and the environment for the struggle deteriorated. The CPC Qingtaixu County Committee was forced to move to a mountainous base area, relying on the border mountains, persisting in the struggle against the enemy, and establishing a secret county party committee east of the Fenhe River. For more than a year, under the circumstances of an extremely dangerous environment and extremely arduous struggle, the Qingtaixu County CPC Committee and the Qingxu (Secret) County CPC Committee underwent severe tests. In April 1942, the anti-Japanese democratic governments of Qingxu and Taiyuan counties were merged into the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government of Qingtaixu, stationed in Baishigou, Qingyuan, and under the eighth special office in northwest Jin.
On September 18, 1943, on the orders of the Eighth Sub-district of Jinsui, Liao Buyun, deputy commander of the Fourth Guerrilla Brigade of the Qingtaixu Guerrilla Brigade, led the second squadron to Luochiqu Village in Qingyuan County to meet Peng Dehuai and Liu Bocheng. Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng, and more than 40 people returned to Yan'an from Taihang to attend the party's "Seventh National Congress" meeting, and were escorted to Qingyuan ground by Zhou Qide, political commissar of the Tongpu detachment, and deputy captain Wang Ligang. Before the Spring Festival in 1944, Yang Yuxian, captain of the Tongpu detachment, and Lei Lide, the commander of the squadron, led a small detachment to escort Chen Yi, commander of the New Fourth Army, across the border. With the improvement of the revolutionary situation, with the main force pulling out the Grass Zhuangtou Japanese stronghold as a turning point, the military and people of the whole county successfully launched anti-encroachment and anti-sweeping struggles, destroyed the enemy's "maintenance meeting", and pushed the scope of activities to Pingchuan. At the same time, it effectively carried out the campaign of rent reduction and interest rate reduction, rectification, and large-scale production, purified the organization, overcame economic difficulties, and laid the foundation for the comprehensive victory of the anti-Japanese struggle.
During the 8-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and under the correct leadership of the communist party organizations at all levels, Shanxi and the Qing Taixu region experienced many battles of all sizes. In particular, in the Qingtaixu area, in order to consolidate and expand the Qingtaibianshan base area, constantly strengthen the local armed forces, and implement Chairman Mao's call to "squeeze out the enemy," we have adopted such unique methods as joint defense between the army and the people, the use of mine warfare, the sabotage of enemy communications, the hoeing of traitors and anti-special forces, and the disintegration of enemy and hypocrisy to defeat and crush the enemy. The local organizations of the CPC in Qingtaixu and the political, military, unified, and mass organizations under the leadership of the Party have always been a fighting whole, moving to the forward positions of the Jinsui revolutionary base areas, strictly guarding the important gateway to the base areas, waging an extremely arduous struggle for winning the victory of the War of Resistance, making tremendous sacrifices, and composing a magnificent chapter of battle.
After Japan's unconditional surrender, the Chiang Kai-shek and Yan clique launched a full-scale civil war in order to seize the fruits of victory. The people of Qingxu actively participated in the Liberation War. Yan Xishan mobilized the strength of 3 divisions to attack the Liberated Area of Pingchuan in a "watery manner", and made Qingtaixu the key area within the "Hundred Mile Defense Line" to suppress and strictly control the area, and carried out a series of tyranny such as "the unity of soldiers and farmers" and "three autobiographical trainings", and white terror enveloped the whole county. The party, government, and military organizations in the three counties of Qing, Tai, and Xu were forced to move to the Jiaocheng Mountains. In the following two years, the environment was harsh and the struggle was arduous, but under the strong leadership of the Qingxu County CPC Committee, the military and people of the whole county launched a protracted "tug-of-war" with the Kuomintang reactionary forces, indomitable and bloody battles, and finally completed the task of containing the enemy army and ushered in the victory in the Jinzhong Campaign. On July 7, 1948, after the People's Liberation Army conquered Jiaocheng County, it entered Qingyuan County. On July 11, it entered Xugou County and declared liberation.
In July 1948, the Battle of Jinzhong began, and the Western Liaoning Village, located in the triangle of Xugou, Yuci and Taigu, became the forefront of the battle. The masses in western Liaoning and the surrounding villages enthusiastically supported the army and cooperated with the People's Liberation Army to win the Battle of Jinzhong. No sooner had the battle ended than Xu Xiangqian and the command organs were stationed in the western village of Western Liaoning, and Zhao Chengshou and other senior Kuomintang generals who had been captured by us also came to Western Liaoning to carry out ideological reform. Full preparations were made for the liberation of Taiyuan.
Red, for the Chinese, is a joyful color. As the background color of Chinese culture, Chinese red is everywhere and everywhere. Since ancient times, red has been the enthusiasm of China's representatives. Chinese's preference for red is obvious to all, and it can be said that red is inextricably linked to traditional Chinese culture. In the eyes of Chinese, red represents auspiciousness, enthusiasm and festivity, and red has become an important part of Chinese culture. The deficit, about the beginning of the fire sacrifice activities, gradually turned to the color of expression. Red is a combination of "big" and "fire", so it is used to describe the color of fire. Therefore, northern China has the custom of "making a fire" in the first month.
When it comes to "making a fuss", it can really be described as an annual folk carnival of Qingxu people. For Qingxu, the fifteenth and sixteenth days of the first month have always been the most anticipated days for Qingxu people. Because that's the time to set off fireworks and make a big fuss. As many as 100,000 people come to see the lights and watch the folk art performances, or even more phenomena. Songs, gongs and drums, joyful songs; dragon dances, lion dances, welcome the new year; back sticks, iron rods, passed down from generation to generation. At this time, the county town of Qingxu County is empty and bustling, and people from all over the city are bustling and bustling, and the road is surrounded by water. Nowadays, Xugou back iron rod is on the world intangible cultural heritage list, as the most traditional folk art in Qingxu , Xugou back iron rod, with a unique art form to the world, and Qingxu fireworks will also usher in everyone's attention.
Folk have a saying: "Xu Gou's back stick loves to scorch people, and Qing Xu's fireworks are ten miles bright". Legend has it that before the Ming Dynasty, Qingxu City, like all over the country, was the most popular on the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month of each year. In that year, King Li Chuang led the rebel army, rushed and fought all the way, and recaptured many towns, and when it was the first month, the battle flag pointed directly at Qingxu City. No one in Qingxu City, whether officials, businessmen, or ordinary people, put on a display of lights in the first month, nor did they prepare fireworks, cannon fire, and make a lot of noise. When the rebels attacked Xiajiaocheng, King Li Chuang asked, "What city is in front?" The counselor replied, "Qingyuan City, is your savior, the former Mizhi County Ling Luo Haoren's hometown, he has returned to his hometown and is retiring in the city." After the king learned of this, in order to repay the grace of Luo Haoren County's life-saving order, he ordered all the troops to stop the flag, not to scratch the old man to rest, from the official road outside the west gate of Qingxu City, without alarming a single grass and tree, and passed through Qingxu City at night. And wrote the verse: "White stone illuminates Qingzhou, and the flood flows around the city". The people in Qingxu City repaid King Li for not disturbing the people, not entering the city, and not paying for grain. Each family raises its own share of the money, sets up its own fire, hangs its own red lights, and makes a big fuss to show its gratitude. Officials and businessmen also want to bring the red fire of various townships and villages into the county seat to have a lively and celebratory time. But at the behest of the officials and the invitation of the rich merchants, none of the families who made a social fire promised to come to QingxuCheng on the fifteenth day of the first month, and they all said in unison that the fifteenth was in the township to make a social fire, and after the fifteenth, they were allowed to enter Qingxu City to make a red fire. In order to save the face of the fifteenth day of the first month, the officials and businessmen did not make a red fire, and later the red fire on the sixteenth day of the first month became bigger and bigger, and after qingxu County, the red-hot climax was changed to the sixteenth day of the first month. The red fire of Qingxu reflects the smiling faces of the qingxu people, and is also a beautiful blessing dedicated by the qingxu people to the motherland.
Amber breeze
"Since ancient times, the number of vinegar in Shanxi, Shanxi vinegar in Qingxu." In ancient China, vinegar was called sour, anhydride, bitter wine, or pickle. The orange-brown old vinegar is beautiful amber when viewed through the sunlight.
Shanxi old vinegar is one of the four famous vinegars in China, as early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period more than 700 years ago, the Qingxu people have used liquid fermentation to brew vinegar in cylinders and urns, and this vinegar brewing technique has been continued. With a history of more than 3,000 years, it is known as the "world's first vinegar" and is known for its five characteristics: color, aroma, alcohol, thickness and acid. During the Western Han Dynasty, commercial vinegar brewing workshops appeared in Qingxu. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the vinegar brewing technique was changed from liquid fermentation to solid fermentation, which was a milestone initiative that laid the foundation for the formation of a unique style of Qingxu old vinegar brewing technology. Later, Wei Jia Sixun elaborated on the process of brewing vinegar in the "Qi Min Zhi Shu".
In the first year of Ming Hongwu (1368), MeihejuFang in Taiyuan Province's Terriyang County (now Qingxu County) founded the fumigation method and produced a sweet and sour old vinegar. In 1377, Meiheju was ordered to send craftsmen to the Palace of Ninghua to pay tribute, and then introduced the new Fang Lao Chen vinegar into the palace and became a royal tribute. During the reign of Qing Shunzhi, Wang Laifu, a Jiexiu man known as the "Vinegar Immortal", continued to make bold reforms and made the Meiheju business north and south of the river. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi Qingxu County produced Shanxi old chen vinegar with no mildew in summer, no freeze in winter, and dark orange in color, which is a unique and excellent quality product in Shanxi vinegar. After several decades of storage, because the bottle cap is not tight and the water evaporates, the old vinegar becomes a solid vinegar like heavy amber, which is washed away with boiling water, and it is still fresh and sour. In 1924, at the Panama International Exposition, he won the first prize for high-quality goods. Since then, the saying that "since ancient times, vinegar is brewed in Shanxi, and the old vinegar comes from Terrier YangYi" (in ancient times, Qingxu was called Terrier Yang) has spread.
In 1956, Meiheju and 21 other vinegar factories joined forces to seek common development, established Qingxu Qu Vinegar Factory in the form of public-private partnership, and the following year, with the East Lake Water Loft in Qingxu County as the symbol, registered the first trademark of Shanxi Vinegar Industry "East Lake". After that, the name of the factory was successively changed to Qingxu Old Chen Vinegar Factory in Shanxi Province and Shanxi Old Chen Vinegar Factory. "East Lake" inherits the authentic Shanxi old vinegar mantle, it uses excellent water quality, selected sorghum, barley, peas and other raw materials, grinding sorghum into four, six, eight petals, through smoking, fermentation, steaming, pouring multiple processes, strictly controlled by experienced teachers, after 5 days pour 5 times the cylinder smoking process, refinement and refinement, and then through the natural vinegar method, finally loaded cylinder, large cylinder opening, natural aging for several years, and finally 5 kilograms of original vinegar only less than 1.5 kg of good wine. The most elaborate process is to go through a "winter ice fishing, summer sunning" aging process, that is, vinegar to be aged in the cylinder, let it freeze in winter, summer sunburn, the purpose is to make the substances in the vinegar precipitate, water through evaporation or ice precipitation, vinegar in the substances and fully chemical reaction, produce a unique odor. Leave it on for at least one year. Pure old vinegar, a jar of vinegar can only be made into an altar, this strict process leads to the low yield of old vinegar, so it is very precious.
In 2006, qingxu old vinegar brewing technology won the title of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. With the continuous expansion of the production scale of vinegar enterprises in Qingxu County, the production conditions have been significantly improved, the product varieties have been continuously innovated and enriched, and the industrial structure has been further optimized. Qingxu County, the place of origin of Qingxu Old Chen Vinegar, has been approved by the relevant state agencies as the title of "Vinegar Capital of China". Recently, it was learned that in order to further enhance the international reputation of "China's Vinegar Capital • Qingxu", Qingxu County plans to hold the "2021 China (Qingxu) International Vinegar Industry Expo" in the near future.
There are many allusions to vinegar. According to legend, In order to win over Fang Xuanling, Tang Taizong wanted to give Fang a concubine, but Fang's wife interfered with it out of jealousy, and Emperor Taizong was helpless, so that Fang's wife chose between drinking poisonous wine and taking concubines. Unexpectedly, Madame Fang was very strong, and would rather die than bow her head in front of the emperor. Take the "poisonous wine" and drink it all. When Mrs. Fang finished drinking with tears, she found that the cup was not poisonous wine, but a strong vinegar with a sweet and sour aroma. This is where the term "jealousy" comes from.
There is also a story about the two talented women lin huiyin and Bingxin in the Republic of China period. In 1933, Bing Xin wrote the novel "Our Wife's Living Room", which was considered to be a satire on Lin Huiyin as soon as it came out. Lin Huiyin is a famous Chinese architect and poet, she is not only one of the four beauties of the Republic of China period, but also a talented woman. Lin Huiyin's achievements in the history of architecture are unparalleled, of which the Monument to the People's Heroes and the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China are among the designers. Lin Huiyin and her husband Liang Sicheng returned to Beiping after inspecting ancient buildings in Shanxi, and after she saw the novel, she was not angry, and bought a gift for Bingxin, which was a bottle of Shanxi old vinegar. The meaning is self-evident and has become an anecdote of the Republic of China.
Shanxi vinegar, Shanxi people love vinegar, passed down from generation to generation, continues to this day. The vinegar fragrance on the Loess Plateau is fluttering, and the endless vinegar flavor vinegar has penetrated deep into our blood, bone marrow and life, even if it is blocked by thousands of mountains and rivers, it is also separated from the continuous thoughts and preferences for vinegar. Perhaps this kind of vinegar, vinegar thinking, vinegar complex is no longer just a preference for taste, but contains a strong and deep sense of hometown, and a fist-and-fist attachment to relatives and friends in the long past. "Since ancient times, the number of vinegars in Shanxi, traced back to the roots in Qingxu." Qingxu is the authentic birthplace of old aged vinegar in Shanxi, with a long history of brewing vinegar, and the traditional brewing process is the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in china. Qingxu old vinegar sour taste is pure and soft, the taste is mellow, slightly sweet and refreshing, the aftertaste is long, has the reputation of "the world's first vinegar", and won the first prize of high-quality commodities at the Panama International Commodities Exposition in 1924. There are more than 60 varieties of old vinegar, aged vinegar, smoked vinegar, white vinegar, health vinegar and flavor vinegar. It is the largest production base of old vinegar in China, and has been named the hometown of Chinese vinegar by the Review Committee of The Hometown of Chinese Specialties. Qingxu is also an important part of the Jin shang, and there are still relatively well-preserved ancient houses and ancient villages of the Jin shang in Xugou, Dachang, Jiazhao and other places.
Golden and clear
Gold is to Qingxu, whether it is the morning sun coloring Wenyuan Pagoda, or the sparkling sunset shining on the East Lake and Qingquan Lake; and the forsythia flowers in spring, rape flowers in summer, ginkgo biloba leaves in autumn, Longlin Mountain in winter; and the golden yellow of wheat, corn, rice, and millet when ripe. They are all dressed up in this thousand-year-old name all the time.
In the mountainous areas of Qingyuan, Mayu and Dongyu townships, the cultivation of Chinese medicinal herbs such as chai hu, astragalus and forsythia suitable for local growth is promoted under the forest, and colored tree species are planted on the basis of green foundation to create a seasonal landscape. Xihuaiyuan Village in Xugou Town plants 300 acres of rape flowers continuously, which is a positive attempt to develop the village-level collective economy in Xihuaiyuan Village, an important part of Xugou Town's construction of beautiful villages, and a positive response to the development of characteristic agriculture in Qingxu County.
Yellow flowers bloom when the grass is green. On both sides of the Xiao River, as far as the eye can see, the forsythia flowers that spread over the mountains are like golden clouds, shining with the agility of life, full of vitality, and painting the mountains and rivers with the brightest shades. In the spring season, the rape flowers in the fields bloom in full bloom, and the golden yellow color stains the mountains and forms a golden ocean. It is a beautiful picture of "a mountain covered with golden armor, a place to appreciate the flowers of the world".
Under the blue sky, golden wheat waves are surging. In the distance, golden wheat filled the fields, surging forward in the breeze. The golden ears of wheat, like a solid ray of sunlight, shone seductively. Soft wheat mango, the plant like a sword pointing straight to the sky. Walking in the field, in the cascading terraces, everywhere is the golden wheat waves, fruitful, harvest joy, all immersed in everyone's heart. The endless rice paddies emit a seductive fragrance, although there is no spring flowers blooming, summer purple and red, but this is the season of life ripening. Flying crescent-like knives and sickles, cutting pieces, although sweating like rain, can not stop the joy of harvest.
During the harvest season, the endless golden yellow is in the company of the earth and the sky, and after the autumn harvest, the golden corn cob can be seen everywhere in the farm yard. The corn stacks piled up in the fence resemble golden towers, and the corn braids hanging under the eaves resemble strings of pearl curtains. They are like little arhats with their teeth outstretched and smiling, giggling about a good harvest.
By the way, Qingxu's "Mengfeng Cake". Qingxu Mengfeng Cake was first made in the 10th year of Qing Guangxu and produced in Mengfeng Village, Qingxu County, with a history of more than 100 years. The color is golden red, the taste is sweet, hot and cold. It is famous for its fragrant, crisp, soft, sweet and cool characteristics, and those who have tasted it have called it the best in the cake. Its traditional production process was identified as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection projects in Qingxu County. Mengfeng is the spring and autumn of the Meng clan feudal land, has a long history, the geographical location is very superior, is the southeast of Qingyuan County, is the Ming and Qing Dynasties Beijing (Beijing) West (Xi'an) Daguan Road must pass through, the geographical location is very superior, the town shops are lined up, north and south merchants are endless. In this way, mengfeng cake was brought to all places, and the good name of Mengfeng cake also spread with the spread of the distance. Legend has it that when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing in the 25th year of Guangxu (1900), when Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled to Xi'an Road via Xugou, the Western Empress dowager was greeted by Meng Fengbao. Mengfeng cake is made of wheat special flour, refined vegetable oil, cotton sugar, honey, sesame seeds, pure water, etc. as raw materials, and is made by making dough, puff pastry, molding, baking, cooling, storage, packaging and other processes. Empress Dowager Cixi was full of praise after tasting the Mengfeng Cake, and immediately passed on the mouth to take three loads of mengfeng cake. This incident had a great influence on the westward escape route, making Mengfeng Cake more and more famous, and its reputation was greatly shocked, becoming a royal imperial cake, as far as Kyoto, and its reputation has not faded for a hundred years. Mengfeng cake is becoming more and more sought after by people and has become an indispensable traditional food during the New Year's Festival. After many improvements, its quality is better, because of the place of origin mengfeng town, everyone calls it "mengfeng cake".
Lush and clear
Qingxu County's terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, steep in the west and slowly spreading to the east, which is divided into medium and low mountainous areas, pre-mountain flood fans, sloping plains and impact plains, and the mountainous areas and pingchuan rivers account for about 1/3 and 2/3 of the total area respectively; there is no obvious hilly area; the soil is divided into two types: mountain cinnamon soil and meadow soil. The altitude difference in the territory is large, more than 800 meters in the mountainous area, the highest point in the north is Miaoqian Mountain, which is as high as 1841 meters, the plain is below 780 meters, and the lowest point in the south is only 753 meters in the Changfeng area of the Fenhe Exit, with a relative height difference of 1088 meters.
Eyes full of green and full of spring, the landscape and water are clear into the painting. The green waves are rolling and full of life. In Zhongyin Mountain, the endless forest area is full of green waves, and the tall pines and cypresses cover the sky, which is like a primitive forest; in Longlin Mountain, a series of precious forests show the infinite charm of Qingxu ecology with a primitive attitude; in the rural wilderness, pieces of red gold apricots, grapes, apples, red dates and other characteristic fruit forests, in the form of "small orchards" and "small gardens", constitute a beautiful rural pastoral painting... Walking into the Vinegar Capital, the ubiquitous green is stunning.
In terms of ecological construction, Qingxu County has been vigorously grasping afforestation and not relaxing, insisting on the construction of ecological tourism, livable villages and characteristic agriculture, deeply carrying out the four modernizations activities such as scenic spot lighting, village greening, highway fruiting, and forest optimization, and insisting on working the word excellent and quality, and focusing on optimizing and improving the ecological environment. Continuously improve the awareness of the broad masses of people to plant trees and afforestation, and promote the formation of a situation of afforestation for the whole people. As the "vegetable basket" and "back garden" of the provincial capital Taiyuan, Qingxu County makes full use of the unique natural advantages of the mountains and rivers to vigorously develop the production of high-quality agricultural products, and delivers organic vegetables without pollution and chemical fertilizer pesticide residues to the people's tables.
"Green" is regarded as a symbol of civilization and is revered, loved and protected by human beings around the world. Green tourism is known as the "eternal sunrise industry" with its huge development potential. In order to grasp and understand the social value, people's livelihood value and economic value of green waters and green mountains, the state attaches great importance to the development of the tourism industry and actively develops the green economy. In recent years, Qingxu County has divided the Hucheng Plate into three major plates based on urban functions: Xicheng, Dongcheng and Economic Development Zone. Integrate urban public spaces with water as the vein, build tourism projects with waterfront leisure as the mainstay, and fully coordinate urban construction and tourism development. Among them, the old city and the east city are the core carriers of lake city tourism development. Vigorously promote the deep integration of cultural tourism.
The first is to enrich the format of red tourism. Integrate all kinds of resources to invigorate the deep integration of red culture and tourism industry. Relying on the Revolution Memorial Hall, the lighting project, the exhibition of renovation and exhibition, and the collection of red memories have been carried out successively, and the red culture of the memorial hall is more intense and the educational significance is more intense. With the theme of "developing eco-tourism and inheriting red culture", the fruit play pastoral complex project integrates the functions of the party history education exhibition hall, ecological agricultural tourism, and four-season orchard picking, driving the surrounding economic development. The second is the "one village, one scene" rural tour. Make full use of the advantages of resource location, relying on the four characteristics of "vinegar capital, Portuguese township, pastoral tourism and intangible cultural heritage", comprehensively develop leisure agricultural tourism products such as sightseeing, leisure vacation, business exhibition, health care and cuisine, cultural experience, etc., and initially form a leisure tourism agricultural development framework of "one district, two belts and one park". With the north inner road, neidao, Ningjiaying, Qingdepu, Xihuaiyuan and Ducun as the main body in the south of Xugou, "one village and one product" has formed a "six ones" rural tourism product system, and 45 agricultural demonstration sites for leisure tourism tourism have been built. The third is to cultivate experiential industrial tourism. Relying on the highly representative industrial tour boutique routes such as Shuita Vinegar Industrial Park and Liuweizhai Industrial Park, we will experience industrial cultural resources and feel industrial civilization and craftsman spirit. The fourth is to adhere to the differentiated resource development strategy, and Qingxu County closely combines the current situation with the implementation of innovation. In the product sector, on the basis of the "vinegar capital Of Portugal", two highlights of "Lake City" and "Pastoral" have been added. In terms of product structure, vinegar cultural tourism and Hutian leisure are taken as the two aces, polishing the brand image and strengthening the leading products; the Portuguese experience and fashion pastoral as the two major supporting characteristics, focusing on the local market, improving the quality of facilities, and doing enough normal consumption; and integrating the tourism resources distributed by scattered points with greenways to achieve global connectivity.
For tourism resources, the general city and county have summarized eight scenes. Since Qingxu County is composed of Qingyuan and Xugou counties, there are sixteen scenic spots. Xugou has a long history, before merging with Qingyuan in 1952, it was a small county with a history of a thousand years, and it was also the only Pingchuan County in the whole of Shanxi that did not have a mountain range, which people called "Xugou Xugou, no mountains and no ditches." Ten thousand acres of fertile land, three rivers around the city." Xugou has a prosperous economy and developed culture, and is known as the "silver jar, grain tunzi, and opera nest" and "the city of ancient construction, the city of commerce and trade, the city of food, and the city of culture" in the Jinzhong region. Xugou has beautiful natural scenery and unique environment, and in ancient times, there were eight scenic spots of Xugou for the townspeople to be proud of.
Eight Ancient Scenic Spots of Qingyuan County: Tao Tang Ancient Ruins, Fenhe Late Crossing, East Lake Night Moon, Xiling Xiangyan, Pingquan Liubi, Zhongyin Huanqing, Qingdui Tobacco, Baishi Yunsong.
Ancient Eight Scenic Spots of Xugou County: Xiaozhong of Huaxian County, Evening Illumination of The Tower, Jinshui Chunlan, Pangong Tai Pavilion, Cascading Clouds, Pond Willow Ring Smoke, Ganquan Pingyong, And Bailong Ancient Stool.
Qingdai Qingxu
"Blue is better than blue", cyan is the background color of the clear vein. Whether it is Zhongyin, Longlin Mountain Modai, or brick carving, pottery-making Qingyou, and coal and coke products all carry the different cultural inheritances of different eras, and also leave different era imprints.
Qingxu brick carving has a long history, and the Fenhe and Xiaohe rivers that pass through the border have deposited high-quality and rich brick carving firing soil for the civilized and ancient place of Qingxu. In the Dugou Neolithic Site and Mayugu Cultural Site in Qingxu, a large number of gray pottery, black pottery and faience pottery have been excavated. According to expert identification, these pottery belong to the Yangshao culture, indicating that as early as the Xia Shang, the QingXu ancestors had mastered the art of making pottery and burning bricks. Since the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, carving traces can be seen from the bricks and tiles of many temples in the territory. Especially in the two hundred years from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, with the rise of Jin merchants, the large number of brick carvings in residential buildings became popular. Most of the brick carving decorations adopt the form of folk favorites, using borrowing, metaphor, analogy, harmonic and other techniques to convey auspicious meanings, expressing people's concern for the value of life, the hope for the prosperity of the family, the yearning for a rich and happy life, and the pursuit of their own social status. Folk craftsmen give this kind of good wishes with rich cultural connotations and profound meanings to a rich imagination, draw them out of patterns, and then make them according to the patterns and craftsmanship.
Qingxu brick carving continues the fine work of "Qin brick Han tile", a brick carving, all completed to go through more than a dozen processes, more than thirty links, basically manual operation. Brick carving to use the best green bricks, from the selection of raw materials to the kiln, need to go through the soil selection, mud making, mold making, blank removal, cool billet, into the kiln, watch the fire, water, out of the kiln and other processes, everything must not be sloppy. Entering the stage of carving and molding, it is necessary to dip the water "grinding bricks" to smooth the surface, design the pattern "draft", copy the drawing on the brick surface "falling draft", and then use a knife to carve out the picture composition "blank" on the cut bricks, further finely carved "out of the fine", with different "knife paths" and "knife method" techniques to delicately portray the specific image of the scene, and finally after modification and gluing for "patchwork" installation, all the processes of brick carving are completed. A germ of earth, in the heat of the fire, in the enlightenment of the iron knife chiseling, under the clever conception of the brick carving artist, the exquisite knife work is transformed into a fine work of art. As a result, the exquisitely carved brick carvings were inlaid in the halls of the mansion or in the portals of the Jin merchants, embedded in the stages of the countryside or on the walls of the mountains, with ups and downs, and the vicissitudes of the ancient years.
"Flowers bloom and grass compete, birds sing and butterflies flutter." The canopy boat swayed and the horse raised its mane. "Brick carving has a history of thousands of years in China, and Shanxi brick carving is especially famous for its large scale, wide use, ingenious conception and exquisite technique, and is closely related to the rise of Jin Merchants in the more than 200 years from the late Ming to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Brick carving has a history of thousands of years in China, and many art categories are similar to the classification, brick carving is also divided into two schools. In Shanxi, which is famous for its above-ground cultural relics, brick carving is famous at home and abroad for its large scale, wide use, ingenious conception and exquisite techniques, and is one of the representatives of China's northern brick carving techniques, known as Shanxi brick carving. In 2006, Qingxu brick carvings were announced as the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage in our province. In 2008, Qingxu Brick Carving (Shanxi Folk Residential Brick Carving) was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion project list.
The decorative patterns of the brick carvings of the houses are roughly as follows: human gods, auspicious birds and beasts, flowers and grass landscapes, utensils, brocade crane characters and so on. The theme of decoration can be summarized into three categories: praying for Najib, ethical indoctrination, and exorcism. Brick carving decoration adopts the form of folk favorites, such as: borrowing peach instead of shou, borrowing peony instead of rich, borrowing pomegranate instead of many children; using sheep as a metaphor for filial piety, using "dark eight immortals" as a metaphor for blessing life; plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum to compare gentleman virtue; lotus flowers to compare morality and incorruptibility; bat harmonic "rich", deer harmonic "Lu", chicken harmonic "Ji" and so on. Express people's concern for the value of life and hope for the prosperity of the family.
Qingxu Meijin Energy Group is a large group enterprise mainly based on coal resources, coking and coal chemical industry, which is upgraded in the process of transformation, transformed in the transformation, actively adapts to the new normal, promotes the transformation of coal from "fuel" to "raw material" to "material", and gradually realizes industrial transformation and upgrading. As an infrastructure enterprise in Taiyuan City, it has provided free urban gas supply for Qingxu County for 23 years, and supplied urban gas and heating for Taiyuan City, Yangqu County and Jiaocheng County to meet the needs of the people. From "one coal dominant" to "multi-pillar heaven", from resource dependence to innovation-driven, the barren mountains and bald mountains have become green treasures. In 2018, it was rated as the transformation of Shanxi Province's meritorious enterprises from "coal" to "non-coal", and also witnessed the pace of ecological civilization construction in Qingxu County in recent years...
Azure and clear
"Sunshine stems the sun and the rainbow, and the East Lake is as green as blue in spring." In the early years of the Republic of China, the county magistrate of Qingyuan County, Xu Siwen, once gave a poem to praise: "Outside the city, qingshan city and the lake, lotus flowers and thousands of willows, Taifen scenery less color, only Qingyuan into the picture." ”
Wenyuan Building, also known as the Water Loft, was rebuilt on the old site in 1997. It is 49.88 meters high and has a construction area of 433.8 square meters. The nine-storey building is the tallest building in the city and a landmark of Qingxu.
Wenyuan eaves fly octagonal, high open clouds; water attic stacked nine floors, overlooking bitan. Towards the rising sun, embracing the golden light, twilight sending the sunset, enjoying the beautiful peace. Zhan Fendong, the grass seedlings are strong, like to see the rice and the thousand heavy waves; looking to the west, lush, there are more purple jade cover green mountains. Spring follows the wind to show affection, and autumn sees the flying bird into the eye.
Overlooking the green in the clouds, the painting of The Gallery Xuan, the saga layers; the near Yaotai in Jingming, the sky is towering, and the fertile soil is embraced. The construction is simple, less complicated and cumbersome; the lines are bright, and there is no carving beam and painting. Eaves stacked fourfold, revered four sides, far away from the four seas, praying for the peace of the countryside; the top nine corners, shaping the Nine Dragons, facing the Fenhe River, the Peace of the Prosperous World.
On the night of the moon, when the moon is in the sky, the lights are shining; the willows on the shore are blowing, the streamers are verdant; the overflowing hall is reflected in the water; the stars are long and the sky is reflected, and the majestic building is magnificent.
East Lake carries too many good memories of people. Whenever the moon is empty, the lake surface is breezy, sparkling, and the waves jump, and the "East Lake Night Moon" of the Eight Ancient Scenery of Qingyuan comes from this. In recent years, Qingxu County has focused on environmental pollution control and is committed to winning the battle to defend blue sky and clear water. In order to improve the water quality of East Lake and improve the quality of the city, the "Two Lakes" landscape water system connection project of East Lake Qingquan Lake was implemented.
Damei East Lake, water green ripples, Yu Xiu and Zhong Ling; clouds and xia are colorful, water and sky are colorful, and willow green flowers are brighter. According to the mountains and rivers, the weather is timely and the people are people. The scenery of the four seasons is different, and each shows its own style. Spring is full of flowers, scorching flowers, willow pond light breeze; summer trees are green, lush grass, green lake embankment step calmly; autumn colors are pleasant, brilliant gold, layers of forest dyed maple leaves red; winter snow crystal, pieces of flying flowers, ice jade branches and silver pots.
The county party committee and government have the original intention on their shoulders; the party members and cadres keep in mind the mission. Looking back at the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the results are fruitful. Looking forward to the "14th Five-Year Plan" and striving to move forward. The world's talents gather, the reform of the economy soaring; high-speed and low-carbon co-flight, the cycle continues to compete; environmental protection development advances together, inheriting the resonance of innovation. According to the mountains and rivers, the weather is timely and the people are people. All the people are at peace, and all industries are prosperous.
Purple Wall Qingxu
The word "Ziyuan" originally referred to the name of the constellation, often borrowed to refer to the imperial palace. Tang Linghuchu's poem "Fatan Prefecture Riji Li Ning ChangShi": "Junjin Serve Ziyuan, I have fallen into the blue sky." Song YangYi's poem "Liang Sheren Feng Envoy Bazhong": "Ziyuan sent envoys to be extraordinary, and there should be stars and texts moving nine xiao." "Using Ziyuan to say Qingxu is because Emperor Yao once built a capital here, although it is a bit far-fetched, but it is also understandable. What's more, grapes are abundant here, so purple is its unique color for Qingxu.
Qingxu is known as the hometown of Chinese grapes, with a long history of grape cultivation, and is one of the four traditional grape producing areas in China. After the grapes were introduced from Eurasia more than 2,000 years ago, they quickly adapted to indigenous breeding. Jia Sixun , " Qi Min Zhi Shu " ( Qi Min Zhi Shu Shu Shu ) , Emperor Wu of Han sent Zhang Qian to Dawan , took the grapes, and planted them next to the Palace Annex. At that time, a leather merchant surnamed Wang in the Mayubian Mountain of Qingxu sold leather goods from the Great Northwest and brought back grape branches to be successfully planted locally. The ancestors here created the "strip method" planting, that is, burying the branches of the Portuguese tree directly into the ground to take root, and then breeding offspring. By the Tang Dynasty, Qingxu grapes had become famous in the sea, and fresh grapes and processed products such as wine, juice and dried wine were also exported to all directions. The Book of Tang records that "Taiyuan Pingyang is made of raisins, and the goods are four sides".
In ancient Times, Qingxu belonged to the most developed agricultural economy, located in the Taiyuan Basin, located in the southwest suburbs of Taiyuan City. There are many springs in the foothills of the mountains, and the land of Pingchuan is fertile, and the terrain is high in the north and south and low in the southeast. The air is humid and the sun is abundant, making it ideal for grape growth. Lüliang Mountain stands in the northwest, blocking the fierce wind in the northwest, not far from the foot of the mountain is the Fenhe River, the soft soil of the Loess Plateau, the soil layer of 100 meters thick, the harsh wind and cold in winter, the hot summer without poison in summer, the microclimate is obvious, it is really a treasure land for dryland crops. The best grown grapes are suitable for growing in the climate of temperate regions at 38°-53° north and south latitudes. The vines are rooted here and depend on the unique growing environment here. Due to the special growing environment, the fruits produced here have a unique flavor and have been passed down for generations. Such as "black chicken heart" and "longyan", etc., are the brand products that Qingxu grapes are proud of.
Historical records record that from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Ming Dynasty, Qingxu wine is a royal tribute. The longan grapes produced are thin-skinned, sweet and nutritious, making them a good product for fresh food and winemaking. The county has a grape planting area of 50,000 mu and more than 160 grape varieties. The grapes that spread over the mountains have attracted countless tourists and have now become a national agro-ecological tourism demonstration point. At the same time, it has a number of grape processing enterprises, with an annual output of 800,000 kilograms of wine and grape beverages, and 2.5 million kilograms of converted grapes. Shanxi's folk songs praise local specialties, and the most difficult to pull down is "Qingxu grapes are sweet and full of flowers". Every golden autumn festival, looking at the Yunmeng Mountain, the grape racks that cover the sky are like countless green silk umbrellas that are stretched open, covering the entire mountainous area tightly. Under the grapevine, colorful grapes like bunches of pearls, like holding agate, like pieces of jade, intoxicating, this poetic three-dimensional harvest map, is depicted with the hands of industrious and clean working people.
Grapes spread from the West to China, and at the same time, winemaking techniques were introduced. Shanxi poet Wang Han has the famous sentence "grape wine luminous cup". Liu Yuxi had "said to myself that I am a Jin person, and I plant this like a kind of jade; The Italian Marco Polo wrote: "There are many vineyards in the Taiyuan area, and many wines are brewed, which are trafficked from Taiyuan to all parts of the province for sale. ”
Looking to the future
The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for starting a new journey of comprehensively building socialist modernization after building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.
The "Government Work Report" of Qingxu County proposes that 2021 is the first year of the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan", a year of great significance in the process of realizing the "Five-Year Top 100", and a key year for the high-quality transformation and development of our county. All levels of the county will thoroughly implement the five major strategies for governing counties by the party, strong enterprises, rejuvenated counties through science and education, rich counties with industries, and counties with beautiful environments, strive to achieve high-quality and rapid development, ensure that the transformation will emerge from the embryonic form, take the lead in forging a new road in transformation and development, strive to "enter the top 100 in five years," and make a good start in the new journey of comprehensively building socialist modernization. By the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", new breakthroughs will be made in economic development, new achievements in ecological construction, new improvements in people's livelihood and well-being, new progress in reform and opening up, and new improvements in social governance.
"The journey is full of wind and strength, and the heavy responsibility is thousands of jun and then work hard." The whole county is in the same direction, not forgetting the original intention and keeping the mission in mind. Thinking of the long-term well-being of the people, taking the peace and security of all the people as their own responsibility; inheriting the hidden virtues of the ancestors, and the wisdom and wisdom of the next enlightened. Not jealous or admiring, not self-interested; dutiful, but the will of the people. Aim high, cast the foundation of Qingxu; care for the people's livelihood, for the peace of Qingxu; reform and innovation, continue the glory of Qingxu, work hard, and compose the Huazhang of Qingxu.
Red orange yellow green blue purple, who holds the color to practice the air dance? Try to see the future development of Taiyuan, it must be Qingxu as the leader!