The map of Ningxia before 2003, there is a silkworm-shaped narrow strip in the north, which is the former Taole County, which is the smallest and least populous county in Ningxia, which was abolished in 2004.
First, the historical evolution
1. In ancient times, the territory of Taole was a nomadic land for xiongnu and other ethnic minorities. During the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, this place belonged to the "Hu" area. At the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, "the First Emperor Nai sent the general Meng Tian to cut down the Xiongnu with 300,000 people", and the Xiongnu crossed the river in the northwest and fled. Mengtian "because the river is a plug, build forty-four county seats, and the 44 cities of Hun Huai are located in the southwest of Taole County, which is under the jurisdiction of Fuping County, Qinbei County. This is the earliest establishment of Tao Le. By the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Hun Huai Barrier had undergone more than 800 years of vicissitudes and great changes, and was finally abandoned. In the fifth generation, it became a place where the DangXiang Qiang clan haunted. In the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1024), Li Deming, the leader of the Western Xia Dynasty, built the "Provincial Ridge City" in the north of Taole. After the fall of the Western Xia, the area became a nomadic land of the Mongols.
Ma Hongkui's telegram on Tao Le's establishment of a county to the Nanjing Executive Yuan and the Ministry of the Interior
2. Taole County set up a Taole administrative bureau here in ningxia province in the eighteenth year of the Republic of China (1929). Suiyuan Province opposed it, and in August of that year set up a government office in Woye. After the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China sent personnel to investigate, in 1937 it ruled that the Woye Administration Bureau should be abolished, and the area was under the jurisdiction of Ningxia Province. In 1941, Ningxia Province upgraded the Taole Administrative Bureau to Taole County, stationed in Gaoren Town. In 1945, the Third Administrative Supervision District of Ningxia was established, and Taole County came under its jurisdiction.
3. In September 1949, Taole County was liberated and belonged to Ningxia Province. In September 1954, Ningxia Province was abolished and merged into Gansu Province, and Taole County belonged to yinchuan special district of Gansu province. In 1958, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was established, and Taole County belonged to the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In 2003, the county was abolished. In 2003, in accordance with the spirit of the State Council's approval of the adjustment of the administrative division of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the establishment of Taole County was abolished, and the original Taole County was renamed Taole Town. The administrative division adjustment will place the former Yueyahu Township of Taole County under the jurisdiction of Xingqing District of Yinchuan City; the rest of the places will be under the jurisdiction of Pingluo County.
Second, the origin of taole place names
1. During the Ming Dynasty, the Tatar and Wallachian tribes entered the Hetao, which was derogatorily referred to as "Taoyu". Due to the many lakes and beaches in Taole, people call this place "Taoyu Lake Beach". During the Qing Dynasty, people may have changed the harmonic sound of "Taoyu Lake Beach" to "Taole Lake Beach" in order to remove insults. This is one of the origins of the name Tao Le.
2. It is also said that because the Yellow River was diverted to the west, it was silted up into a beach. There are two local people surnamed Tao and Le surname who manage to lead the herding animals, so they are called "Taole Lake Beach".
3. The third theory: The place name of Tao Le is taken from the Mongolian "Tao Hai Le Tao Hai" (meaning a river beach like the bend of the arm), and it was only when Tao Le County was established that it evolved from the harmonic sound of the Mongolian Tao Hai Le Tao Hai "Qile Tao Ran" to Tao Le.
The gate of the former Taole County Government
3. Reasons for the withdrawal of counties
Before the withdrawal of the county, there were about 2,300 people in Taole who ate financial meals, while the total population of the county was only 32,000, and the population of the urban area was only more than 4,000. More than 10 people raise a cadre, lack of commercial foundation and civil society Tao Le, the whole operation of the administrative dependence is extremely high. If it continues to exist, it will put a lot of pressure on the finances.
Yellow River wetlands
Fourth, Tao Le Ten Monsters
This county suoyang Pingluo selling, the river and other boats are really helpless, the ancestors have fought three harms for generations, thieves are difficult to get out, yellow teeth and black teeth are also cute, raw people recognize it at a glance, slaughtered big pigs and pickled up, wild game sand onions bitter bitter vegetables, hand-grabbed mutton for good hospitality, relatives recognize from the south to the north.
The county suoyang Pingluo sells. Suoyang, commonly known as Huang Krone, is a parasite on the desert Baizi. It is a medicine of Guyang and can also be eaten as a fruit. Before Tao Le withdrew from the county, many people took the dug-up Suoyang to Pingluo to sell.
Waiting for the boat by the river is really helpless. In the past, Taole transportation was very difficult, sunny and rainy, people to the other side of the river to do things only by boat, often waiting for a boat takes a long time, so very helpless.
Ancestors have fought three evils for generations. The three harms refer to wind and sand, salinity, and the collapse of the Yellow River, which is also a hazard that Tao Le people have always been difficult to change. The Tao Le people sacrificed for this.
It's hard for thieves to get in and out. In the past, due to the reality of transportation difficulties, Tao Le's import and export were not much, so it was difficult for thieves from other places to enter and come out. Therefore, Tao Le is also known as a paradise.
Yellow teeth and black teeth are also cute. In the past, people in many parts of Taole drank highly mineralized high-fluoride water, and many people had black or yellow teeth, but their hearts were beautiful.
The living man recognized it at a glance. Due to the small number of people in Tao Le, there were also very few people who went to other places in the past. People on the street are generally known to everyone, so people who go out of town will recognize them at a glance.
Wild game shallot bitter bitter vegetables, hand grabbed lamb good hospitality. Tao Le is surrounded by mountains and waters, wild rabbits running on the mountains, flocks of catfish and carp in the Yellow River, and wild ducks flying in spring. Whenever it is the agricultural season or when it rains, three or five friends invite each other to sit together, eat large pieces of meat, and drink wine. On the dinner table, there are indispensable Yellow River catfish, sand onions, sand mustard, and even less bitter bitter vegetables. Even the government guest house at the time pickled more than 10 jars of bitter vegetables a year.
Slaughtered big pigs and pickled them. Until the 1980s, people generally did not buy meat on the street, basically producing and selling it themselves, even in the county town. More than 100 kilograms of pigs, from winter to the summer of the following year, is not unusual. What should I do if I can't finish eating meat? Then marinate in oil. The method is to boil the meat with oil and put it into a jar and eat it slowly. To this day, some farmers still follow this habit.
If that's not enough, then grabbing lamb by hand is enough to relieve hunger. Whenever the harvest season is harvested, people who live in the countryside have to eat several sheep every year, and even people in the county towns, because of their inextricable ties with the people in the countryside, eat a lot of lamb every year. The sheep are slaughtered, the bone and flesh are cut into pieces, the seasoning is put on, and a large pot is stewed, and the aroma is overflowing for a while. Dip in vinegar and garlic, and some people have to eat one or two pounds at a time.
Today's Binggou
Fifth, the charm of Binggou
Located in the south of Taole County, binggou Grand Canyon is an east-west natural flood drainage ditch that winds for more than ten kilometers. According to historical records, it was the place of tun soldiers during the Qin and Han dynasties, so it was called "Binggou". The nearby "Hun Huai Barrier" site was built by the Qin Dynasty general Meng Tian, and the terrain inside the ditch is unique, the gully is developed, crisscrossed and full of strong mysterious colors.
The trench is no more than 30 meters deep and no more than 5 kilometers long, accompanied by the desert border and the moon, connected to the sunset of the long river. Here are ravines, yellow sand, rivers for thousands of miles, since ancient times has been the place where "strongmen" haunt. The Gonggong who came from before liberation said this: The Binggou area is a creepy place, and whenever a ship passes there, the dead and the living are afraid. The dead are hanging high in coffins, and a few bricks have fallen in the cold; the living is to block the road and rob, and you are not afraid; coupled with the cries of crows, it is really tingling in people's scalps. In such a place to shoot ancient battlefields, ancient caravanserais, ancient cottages... Nature is original, no wonder Chen Jialin, Wu Ziniu and other directors all look at filming and television in this place.