On the coast of the East China Sea in southern Zhejiang, a town is named after the mine, and its alum ore reserves are the largest in the world, which is The Town of Alum Mountain in Cangnan County.
Alum Hill Town is known as the "Alum Capital of the World" and has a history of more than 650 years of alum mining. Wenzhou Alum Mine in the town was established in 1956, the mining area's GDP accounted for 38% of the industrial production value of Wenzhou in the early stage of the mine, and later restricted by bottlenecks such as system, technology and market, the core enterprises of Alum Mountain gradually declined.
In recent years, in order to get rid of the dilemma of "no work, no agriculture, no business", Lushan Town has focused on the transformation and development positioning of "cultural town and tourism town", and has been exploring towards the goal of building a "national industrial heritage tourism base" and an "international industrial heritage tourism destination", and a unique industrial and mining tourism town in the southern border of Zhejiang has gradually taken shape.
Happiness is here, and the remains of industry and mining always make you think about it
More than 650 years of alum mining history has left 5 categories and more than 100 mining sites for alum mountain. In today's industrial transformation, Alum Mountain still retains a large number of characteristic buildings such as alum blast furnaces, workers' halls, and Soviet-style office buildings. The alum mine site has witnessed the development of China's national industry from ancient, modern to modern times, and the rich industrial heritage it contains is a precious part of China's industrial cultural heritage.
With the joint efforts of all sectors of society, the alum mountain alum mine site was listed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as the first batch of "National Industrial Heritage", the eighth batch of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2017, and was included in the second batch of "China Industrial Heritage Protection List", known as the industrial living sites that are still in production.
Based on the unique resource advantages of Alum Mountain, in recent years, Lushan Town has invested 157.7 million yuan to carry out comprehensive improvement of the environment in small towns and the construction of rural revitalization demonstration belts around the transformation and development positioning of "cultural town and tourism town", laying a solid foundation for urban and rural development. With a total investment of more than 40 million yuan to carry out the protection and development project of Fude Bay Historical and Cultural Village, Fude Bay was selected as the first batch of "Chinese Traditional Villages" in 2013, the sixth batch of "China Historical and Cultural Villages" in 2014, the "Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Protection Honorary Award" issued by UNESCO in 2016, and the "Provincial Historical and Cultural (Traditional) Village Protection and Utilization Demonstration Village" in 2019; the use of alum old factories and ancient houses to create tea through the world, Mid-Levels Reshes, Ancient Road Inn, Alum Du Zuoshe and other boutique guesthouses, the No. 5 workshop tourism distribution center and the industrial and mining style theme hotel with an investment of 50 million yuan will be officially opened immediately; relying on the mining alum ruins, the "Alum Mountain Impression" lighting night scene project with an investment of 28.1 million yuan has been built to create the highlight brand of the moonlight economy in Wenzhou; the old factory building of wenzhou alum mine has been used to create an "alum factory", and in just two years, it has won more than ten national and provincial honors such as "National Research and Practice Education Base for Primary and Secondary School Students". At the same time, we continue to carry out comprehensive improvement of the environment in small towns, promote the "garbage revolution" throughout the territory, and Alum Hill Town has been rated as "National Sanitary Township", "Provincial Historical and Cultural Town", "Provincial Tourist Town", "Provincial Beautiful Rural Demonstration Township", and was also selected into the fourth batch of "National Mine Park" creation list. According to incomplete statistics, the number of tourists in the town reached more than 1 million in 2020, an increase of 20% year-on-year.
Among them, the most core, most valuable and most promising industrial and mining sites in the tourism development of Alum Mountain are underground mines. According to the topographic and geological characteristics, the Wenzhou alum mining area is divided into five major mining areas, divided into 12 layers, with a direction of 10 kilometers and an ore-bearing area of 12 square kilometers. At present, the "Overall Planning and Detailed Planning of Key Spaces of the World Alum Capital Tourism" with Alum Mountain Mine as the core has been pushed to international bidding, and systematic, unique and complete industrial heritage tourism complex projects such as Asia's largest Tong cave hotel and "Disney" are gradually changing from blueprints to real maps. In the future, Alum Mountain will become a tourist attraction with unique industrial and mining characteristics in the country and even the world!
Happiness Alum Mountain shows a new look, and natural scenery makes your trip worthwhile
Spring cuckoos pick new tea, summer into the mine to avoid the blazing heat, autumn to climb the ancient Taoist reeds, winter to celebrate the galactic festival. Alum Mountain has a rich ecological and natural landscape, with Ananda Mountain, the first peak in Cangnan at an altitude of 1005 meters, and Beacon Mountain, known as "Zhangjiajie in southern Zhejiang", known as "sea of clouds, sea of flowers and sea of stones". From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, there is a misty sea ladder that winds and turns on the cliffs, thousands of acres of wild rhododendrons bloom during the Qingming Dynasty, and the reeds in the mountains form forest and sea snow fields during the Chongyang period, attracting tourists from all over the world to come to sightseeing. There are nearly 10,000 acres of ecological tea gardens on Heding Mountain, located in high mountains and superior environment, and in recent years, it has been awarded the titles of "Thirty Most Beautiful Tea Gardens in China" and "Zhejiang Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Health Tourism Demonstration Base". Relying on the tea garden, the "Tea Through the World" experience center was built, and the academician Workstation of Chen Zongmao (mào) was set up to create an experience base integrating ecological leisure and health care and production, education and research.
Because alum mountain is located in a gourd-shaped basin surrounded by mountains on all sides, traffic was blocked in ancient times, and alum transportation was carried out on the shoulder, gradually forming a total length of about 60 kilometers of 3 "alum ancient roads", these three ancient roads along the road distributed ancient bridges, ancient pavilions, ancient trees, ancient residences, ancient inscriptions, ancient port head and a large number of ecological and cultural landscapes. Among them, the alum alum ancient road ranks first in the "Wenzhou Top Ten Characteristic Ancient Roads", and is also one of the seventh batch of provincial cultural relics protection units, which is deeply loved by outdoor leisure travel tourists.
Based on the natural features of the town, in 2018, Lushan Town invested 66.47 million yuan to carry out the construction of the "World Alum Capital Leisure Tourism" rural revitalization demonstration belt, with a total length of 17 kilometers, starting from Puping Village, Lushan Town, ending at The "Tea Through the World" of Heding Mountain, along the line there are 7 key projects such as Puping and Jiaxiang Beautiful Village, Fude Bay Historical and Cultural Village, Alum Du Museum Group, Alum Mountain Government Service Center, Meat Swallow Industry Small Micro Park, and Ecological Old Soil Tea Base. Relying on the rural revitalization demonstration belt, in recent years, the development momentum of local rural tourism, farmhouses and other projects has become stronger and stronger, which is the vivid practice of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" in Alum Mountain.
Happiness is a strong step, and the humanistic heritage will make you often look new
Lushan is the hometown of Zhu Cheng, the "general of the iron army," the hometown of Liu Xian, the deputy to the "Seventh National Congress" of the party, Huang Chuanhui, director of the Creation Office of the Political Department of the Navy, and Zhang Ling, a famous female writer, with a long revolutionary history and glorious revolutionary tradition.
More than 600 years of history of alum mining have created the unique aura of this town. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a large number of miners in the Alum Mountain Mining Area actively moved closer to the party organization, and a number of revolutionary martyrs such as Zhu Shanzui, Chen Baigong, Wu Yu, Zhang Chuanzhuo, Chen Zhenghe, and Zhu Cheng emerged, determined to save the country, go forward to succeed each other, sacrifice their lives for the country, and seek revolutionary truth. Among them, Zhu Cheng, a famous anti-Japanese general, was introduced to the party by Zhu De, experienced hundreds of battles, made outstanding contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was only 33 years old at the time of his sacrifice, General Yang Dezhi personally wrote an inscription calling him "General of the Iron Army", and his former residence in Lushan Town was rated as a "provincial patriotic education base".
In addition to the deep red heritage, generations of miners have flourished here, creating a unique customs and folk culture of Alum Mountain, and Alum Mountain Town was rated as "Zhejiang Province Historical and Cultural Town" in 2016.
Alum Mountain Folk Craft - Alum Sculpture is a "provincial intangible cultural heritage", and it is also listed as a "municipal intangible cultural heritage" by miners' trumpets, alum picking songs, alum industry folk songs, traditional snack meat swallows and so on. Among them: the miner's trumpet, also known as the "trumpet song", is combined with the mining process "soft hammer", condensing the miner spirit of "soft hammer song breaking into the world", which is the spiritual symbol of the people of Alum Mountain who work hard, unite and cooperate, and have the courage to open up. Nowadays, with the spirit of this "soft hammer song to break into the world" and professional mining technology, the people of Alum Mountain have gone south and north, with footprints all over the world, and the town has more than 26,000 labor export troops engaged in mine shaft and lane projects abroad every year, contracting nearly 70% of the country's non-ferrous metal mining, making outstanding contributions to the development of the mine shaft industry.
Happiness is full of alum mountain charm, and delicious food will make you haunt your dreams
Alum Mountain is not only the oldest mining market town in southern Zhejiang, but also a style town with unlimited food, and you can not only enjoy a visual feast, but also feel the delicious taste on the tip of the tongue when you come to Alum Mountain. The ingredients in the mountains, rivers, fields and fields have turned into a "memorable taste" of the soul in the hands of the wise alum mountain people - the twelve flavors of alum have come into being, and the special dishes of alum mountain such as miner's square meat, Puping brine goose, chicken gizzard balls, alum mountain meat swallow, alum mountain mixed noodles, Well Lane Taiping egg, chicken wine, soft soup, cake meat, alum mountain rice cake, flower roast roll, loquat fish and other alum mountain specialties contain rich miner stories.
For example, one of the twelve flavors of alum , alum mountain meat swallow, because the miners will inhale dust during the process of alum smelting, the throat will dry up and ache, and the taste of the alum mountain meat swallow just plays a role in moisturizing the throat, so it is deeply loved by miners. The biggest feature of alum mountain meat swallow is "meat wrapped meat", not only the filling of the package is meat, the skin of the package is also meat, and the essence is out of the thin meat swallow skin, the meat of the meat swallow skin must be the meat of the pig's hind legs, with sweet potato flour repeatedly tapped and kneaded, after boiling in water, it resembles a flying swallow, so it is called "meat swallow". In recent years, Alum Mountain Meat Swallow Enterprise has continuously standardized and improved, and has successively won the honorary titles of "National Famous Special New Agricultural Products", "China Famous Snacks", "Zhejiang Top Ten Famous Snacks" and other honorary titles, becoming a well-known snack with an annual output value of more than 200 million yuan, and realizing the "small meat swallow" to drive the "big industry".