Baixiang County, which belongs to Xingtai City, Hebei Province, is located in the south-central part of Hebei Province. The total area is 268 square kilometers, and the total population is 190,000.
First, the historical evolution
1. In the Qin Dynasty, it belonged to Julu County, and the Western Han Dynasty belonged to Hengshan County.
2. In the first year of the Western Han Dynasty (33 BC), the Marquis of Fengbai Township (the ancient city was seventeen miles southwest of the present-day county seat) belonged to Julu Commandery.
At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu proclaimed himself emperor at the Five Cities of Nanqian Qiuting (白乡县千秋亭) in Yan County, established the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the following year set the capital Luoyang and changed it to Gaoyi, the seat of government was still in Gaoyi, and the Marquis of Baixiang was abolished and merged into Gaoyi County (in present-day Baixiang County). In the seventeenth year of Jianwu (41 years), it was transferred to Zhongshan Kingdom, and in the twentieth year it was still part of Changshan County.
3. During the Northern Qi Dynasty, the administrative office of Gaoyi County was moved from Yan (present-day Baixiang) to the present-day Gaoyi County, and the present-day Baixiang County was divided into Gaoyi and Bairen counties.
4. In the sixteenth year of the Sui Kai Emperor (596), the two counties of Jiebai and Gaoyi (高邑二县) belonged to Luan Prefecture. In the second year of Daye (606), Baixiang County was transferred to Zhao Prefecture, and the following year Zhao Prefecture was deposed as Zhao County. The Tang and Wu dynasties belonged to Zhao Prefecture.
5. In the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1072), Baixiang County was incorporated into Gaoyi County, which belonged to Zhao Prefecture. Yuan, Ming, and Qing causes it.
6. In 1913, it belonged to Ji'nan Province, directly under the province, and the following year it belonged to Daimyo Province. In 1928, it was directly under hebei province.
7. In 1949, it belonged to Xingtai Special District. In 1958, it was merged into Neiqiu County, and in 1961 its area was merged into Longyao County.
8. In 1962, Baixiang County was re-established and belonged to Xingtai Special District (changed to a district in 1968). In 1993, it belonged to Xingtai City.
The ruins of Bairen City in Shuangbei Township, Longyao County
2. Origin of place names
"Yuanhe County Chronicle" contains: Zhao Prefecture Baixiang County: "Remotely took the name of Gubai Township. ”
The name Baixiang is derived from Bai Renyi, and the Bai people are mentioned twice in the Zuo Zhuan: in the fourth year of the Duke of Wai (491 BC), "Hui Xianyu, Na Xun Yin Yu Bai Ren", and in the fifth year of the Duke of Ai, "Jin Wei Bai Ren, Xun Yin, Shi Ji Shoot Ben Qi".
How did the Bo people's place names come about?
"Chronicle of Tangshan County" (Note: Longyao was formerly known as Tangshan): "In the 17th year of the Spring and Autumn Zhou Xiang King (636 BC), Wei Hou Xuan destroyed Xing and Wei, and then belonged to Wei. In the 28th year of the Reign of duke Wen of Jin, he took The Xing, who also belonged to Jin Yi and was a Bai person. ”
The Kangxi Dictionary has several interpretations of "Bai":
1, Yin wood also. "The Essence of the Six Books" Cypress, Yin Mu also. The wood is all yang, and the cypress points to the yin to the west, and the cover wood has the virgin, so the word is from white. White, Western positive color also.
2, big also. with Bertone. "Release the name" Bo car, big car also.
3, forced also, and forced with the same. "Zhou Li Chunguan" has a bai seat with a pure skullcap. "Zheng Note" Bai Xi, the seat of the ground. "History of Han Gaoji" Bo people, forced by people also.
"Tangshan County Chronicle" is the third meaning, what do you think?
3. Places of interest and historical sites
1. Han Peony Garden. Located 5 kilometers north of the county seat of Baixiang County, covering an area of 520 acres, it is said that Wang Mang killed Liu Xiu, who had avoided peony and peony medicine, so that he escaped this robbery, and the name of Han Peony was derived. The Chinese peony in the garden is tall and tall, the branches are as thick as a whip, more than a thousand flowers bloom, the flowers are as large as lotuses, and the flowers of the same plant have different shapes, there are single and double; the flowers in the usual year are pink, the growth is luxuriant, and the flowers of plain white color are opened in the year of great events in the world, and the branches and stems decay; moving to it is not alive, and the hand is swollen and painful, which is legendary.
2. Ancient City. Located in Guchengdian Town, Baixiang County, King Wuling of Zhao was built in 323 BC as a strategic place in the north of the Zhao Kingdom, a famous ancient battlefield, and served as the temporary capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty before and after Liu Xiu ascended the throne. The ancient city is built on earth, slightly circular, the city wall is 8 kilometers, and only the ruins are faintly visible.
3. Chiaki Pavilion. Located 100 meters north of Fifteen Lipu (formerly known as Guangwu Temple Village), Liu Xiu ascended the throne as emperor in 25 AD and established the Eastern Han Dynasty. The ruins are 150 meters long square, and only some of the high platforms remain in the south due to the severe damage caused by the brick factory burning bricks and taking soil.
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