Located in the northeast of Xinzhou City, at the northern foot of Wutai Mountain and on both sides of the Tuotuo River, Fanzhi County is bordered by hengshan, the "Beiyue" of "Wuyue", bordering Ying County and Hunyuan County under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou City, and bordering Lingqiu County of Datong City and Fuping County of Baoding City, Hebei Province, in the east, with a total area of 2368 square kilometers, which is a large county in Xinzhou City. The territory is surrounded by high mountains on the north, east and south, and Pingxingguan is located in the eastern mountains, and the central part is the valley of the upper reaches of the Tuotuo River, which is part of the Xinding Basin. A number of rivers flow through the county, and the main stream of the Tuotuo River flows through the jurisdiction of 80 kilometers.
Plant resources have a variety of Chinese medicinal materials planted, to flourish astragalus, also known as Hengshan astragalus is the most famous, known as "astragalus king". Highland hardy crops such as quinoa, yam, millet, buckwheat, and yellow rice form economic resources. Mineral resources are abundant. Among them, the proven reserves of molybdenum ore account for 85% of the province, ranking first in Shanxi. Gold reserves also rank first in Shanxi.
Astragalus
Fanzhi County was founded in the Spring and Autumn Period as Huo Renyi; during the Warring States period belonged to Zhao; Qin belonged to Dai County; Western Han Dynasty Halocheng County, which belonged to Dai County, hou belonged to Taiyuan County; the Eastern Han Dynasty continued to be called Halocheng County, which belonged to Yanmen County; the Western Jin Dynasty compounded Fanzhi County, which belonged to Yanmen County; the Fifth Dynasty belonged to the Northern Han Dynasty; Jinshi Sheng fanzhi County was Jianzhou, which belonged to Taiyuan Prefecture; in the late Republic of China, it belonged to Chahar Province; and in 1983 it belonged to Xinzhou District and Xinzhou City.
Fanzhi County has many cultural relics and monuments, and the remains are all over the place. There are many attractions such as the Iwaki-ji Jin dynasty murals and The Flat Pass.
Located at the northern foot of Mount Wutai, Yanshan Temple was formerly known as Lingyan Temple, sitting north and facing south. There are a large number of Murals of the Jin Dynasty, all of which are created with buddhist stories as the theme, and many aspects reflect the microcosm of the social life of the Song and Jin Dynasties, and are precious materials for studying the history, society, religion, architecture and art of the Song and Jin Dynasties, and the murals of yongle Palace in southwest Jinxi can be called the "double bi" of Shanxi murals.
FanzhiYanshan Temple
Pingxingguan is a pass of the Inner Great Wall, located in Pingxingguan Village, Hengjian Township, Fanzhi County. In the sixth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1511 AD), when building the Inner Great Wall, it passed through the Pingxing Ridge and built the Guanlou on the Guanling. Flat-shaped Guancheng, square-shaped, surrounded by more than 900 zhang, there is a gate in the north, south and east, and the door is engraved with three big characters of "Ping-type Ridge", which can really be described as a steep mountain.
Pingxingguan is famous for the Battle of Pingxingguan (the site is located in Baiyatai Township, Lingqiu County, Shuozhou City), and through the victory of this beautiful ambush battle, the morale of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians was greatly boosted, which greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the military and civilians throughout the country for resisting the war and strengthened the belief in the victory of the War of Resistance. This was the second great victory won after the beginning of china's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which shattered the myth of the "invincibility of the imperial army," boosted the hearts of the people of the whole country, and encouraged the enthusiasm of the people of the whole country for the War of Resistance. The Pingxingguan Museum is a site of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and a military museum of natural and historical significance for educating patriotic and revolutionary traditions.
Flat off
Gongzhu Temple is located in Xingyuan Township, 15 kilometers southeast of Fanzhi County, belongs to the Wutai Mountain North Taiwai Temple, covers an area of 4,000 square meters, the central axis has three courtyards, the most valuable in the temple is the hall, Daxiong Hall, approved by the State Council to be included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection unit list. The Princess Temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty for Princess Chengxin of the Northern Wei Dynasty to escape the suffering of red dust and practice as a monk. The existing hall is a Ming Dynasty building. The temple is complete in architecture, the scale is grand, and the murals in the temple are exquisitely skilled and lifelike, and have high artistic value.
Princess Temple
The Tuotuo River originates from Qinglong Spring in the northern foothills of Mount Wutai in Fanzhi County, flows southwest between Hengshan And Wutai Mountain, turns eastward to the boundary river, cuts through The Zhoushan And Taihang Mountains, flows through the border of Pingshan County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, and flows east to the Ziya River of the Haihe River system where Xianxian County and Ganyang River in Cangzhou City merge into the Haihe River system and enter the sea. The Tuotuo River flows through many counties in The two provinces of Jin and Hebei, and has a total length of 80 kilometers in fanzhi. For thousands of years, the Tuotuo River, as the mother river of prosperity, has raised countless children of Huyuan. It can be said that the most beautiful scenery of The Prosperous Ridge is the Tuotuo River in the landscape and water.
Source of the Tuotuo River
The Great Wall of Hanzhuang is located in Shentangbao Township, Fanzhi County, with a total length of 35 kilometers. During the Warring States period, the Zhao State was built, the Sui Dynasty was rebuilt, and the Ming Dynasty outsourced the bricks and stones in the original Great Wall, height and widening, and built the Inner Great Wall. The more complete preservation is a section of Hanzhuang Village in Shentangbao Township, where the city walls are built along with the winding hills. The wall is 6.6 meters high, the top width is 3.6 meters, the masonry structure, there are one at intervals, and there are 13 platforms on the 20-kilometer section from Hanzhuang to Cigou Camp.
Hanzhuang Great Wall
The Wutai Mountain Scenic Area, a world cultural heritage, spans many cities and counties in Xinzhou, but the most beautiful and steepest places are all in the territory of Fanzhi County. There are 5 national key cultural relics protection units and 12 provincial key cultural relics protection units located in Fanzhi, but the affiliation of scenic spots is unique, and many scenic spots and monuments are difficult to divide in detail, but this will not reduce the role of Fanzhi County in the big family of cultural relics and monuments of Wutai Mountain.
It is distributed in Wutai Mountain in many counties
Wutai Mountain East Wanghai Peak
Fanzhi's specialties include yellow rice, mushrooms, tofu and white water apricots.
Fanzhi Scar Cake, Fanzhi Donkey Meat, Fanzhi Dried Tofu and Fanzhi Yellow Rice Oil Cake form a mouth-watering food chain on the tip of the tongue.
Scar cakes are often eaten in the northwest of the mountain. Named after the scars on the cake noodles, it began in the Ming Dynasty. Using white noodles, cooking oil, sugar, eggs, soda, etc., the live noodles are rolled into a pancake about half a foot in diameter and baked in an iron pot covered with evenly sized stones.
Scar Cake
There is a folk saying that "thirty miles of noodles forty miles of cake, twenty miles of white noodles run off the waist". The oil cake made of soft rice noodles is a unique delicacy with a fragrant, soft and sharp taste, edible in all seasons, nutritious and hunger-resistant.
Rich oil cake
Fanzhi County's historical celebrities are brilliant.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin general Xie Yang was a native of present-day Fanzhi County. History contains the story of "xie yang trustworthiness".
The Tang Dynasty Yuan Haowen (1190__1257), known as "Mr. Yishan", was a native of Xiurong (present-day Xinzhou). A famous writer and historian in the alternate period of the present and Yuan dynasties, he was the main representative of northern literature and the leader of the literary circle at that time, and was revered as "a generation of Wenzong". As a teenager, he spent time with his father in the town of Shahe in the north of the Tuotuo River.
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Wang Taojiang (1915__1995), who served as director of the Cadre Bureau and vice minister of the Central Investigation Department in the 1950s, joined the CCP in 1937 and has been working for the party at the grassroots level ever since.
Fan Muhan (1917________
Zheng Xiwen (1921__2015), who served as vice minister of justice after liberation, served as the county magistrate of Fanzhi County during the war years. In 1955, he was awarded the title of founding colonel and later promoted to colonel.
Liang Bingyong was the vice minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry after liberation.
Hou Shouchang (1882__ During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as a lieutenant general in the commander-in-chief of the Second Theater of Operations and a lieutenant general in the Military Senate, and later retired from the military. He died in Xi'an in 1968.
Xie Lian (1887__1952), a native of Shahe Town, graduated from the first special class of the Republic of China Land University, participated in the Wuchang Uprising, and was appointed as a quartermaster at the Joint Logistics Headquarters. In January 1949, he participated in the Peking Peaceful Uprising.
Zhao Zhengfu (1912__1967) a native of Shahe Town. He is a well-known expert, theoretician and writer of the history of the Communist Party of China.
Zhang Fengxiang (1915______ He was captured in the Battle of Taiyuan on April 24, 1949. He was executed in the early fifties.
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