Textual research on Zhong Shu Guang Ji, Tai Ping Guang Ji and other volumes shows that Baisha was famous as the Great Holy Temple in the Tang Dynasty, which shows that Baisha was also very prosperous at that time. It may also become a town, but when it will be built, its scale and pattern are still unknown.
Gushu Town was founded in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The Records of Yuanfeng's Nine Domains was rebuilt on the basis of the Nine Domains Map compiled by Zeng Zhao and Li Dechang in the sixth year of Dazhong Xiangfu in Zhao Heng, Song Zhenzong, during Zhao Xiangning's reign (1065438 ~ 1077). Volume 8 records that "in the fourth year of Yongxi, Nanping County was merged into Jiangjin. Jiangjin is located at 120 miles south of Chongqing, with 14 towns, namely Han Dong, Pumice, Baisha, Changsha, Zhong Sheng, Shiyang, Magnolia, Inspiration, Shigu, Shaxi, Xianchi, Pingtan, Shidong and Sanmu. According to this, Baisha was built as early as 987 AD. It has a history of thousands of years.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Ming returned to Shu, established the Daxia regime, made its capital in Chongqing, changed Jiangjin into Jidian City, and Baisha Town became the land of Jidian for the first time. In the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Taizu (137 1), Ming Sheng, the son of Ming Yuzhen, surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Baisha Town was changed to Baishali in the Ming Dynasty. In the ninth year of Wanli in Ming Shenzong (158 1), Baisha Water Post was set up. Ming Hui Dian and Reading Historical Records all call Baisha Shuiyi, Buxi Shuiyi, Handong Shuiyi and Baidu Shuiyi the four major Shuiyi in Jiangjin.
In Qing dynasty, there were inspection departments and towns. After the development in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, relying on the benefits of water and postal services, it has increasingly highlighted the role of regional material distribution hub, becoming not only the main waterway in eastern and southern Sichuan, but also an important market town on the postal route in Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
During the Republic of China, a town office was set up, and Baisha was the third office in Jiangjin County. Baisha has created a prosperous urban pattern by virtue of the prosperous trade and traffic on the Yangtze River waterway.
1949165438+1On October 29th, Baisha announced its peaceful liberation. In June, 5438+February of that year, the Fifth District Party Committee and the Fifth District People's Government of Jiangjin County were established, which had jurisdiction over five towns, including Baisha, Sankou, ji zi, Tanghe and Yongxing. The District Party Committee and District Government were all located in Baisha Town.
195 1 In April, Jiangjin County People's Government also moved to Baisha Town, which is the political, economic and cultural center of Jiangjin. It was not until July 1956 that the county government moved back to Chengguan Town (namely Jijiang Town) and resumed its original position. The following month, the county government moved out and Baisha evacuated the area to establish a town.
Baisha Town People's Committee was established on 1957. 1970, Baisha Town Revolutionary Committee was established. Since 1980, Baisha Town People's Government has been established as a county-level town.
Wu, a famous patriotic poet, Deng Shaoqin, a famous historian, Xia, a famous painter, a patriotic general, an anti-Japanese general, a calligrapher, a composer, Wang Xiren, a former head coach of the national women's volleyball team, Ding, a former vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhang Chaoyin, a contemporary inventor of scientific and technological innovation, have all lived, studied or worked in this fertile land. Chen Duxiu, one of the founders of China's * * * Production Party, General Feng Yuxiang, the former vice chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government, and Song Meiling, the wife of Chiang Kai-shek, all left touching deeds and a lot of cultural wealth in Baisha.