Hutou Mountain in Dazhai, Shanxi Province was originally a little-known hill. Thanks to the efforts of Chen Yonggui and Dazhai people for a generation, Mao Zedong, the first generation leader of China, wrote the inscription "Agricultural Dazhai", and Hutou Mountain became famous all over the world. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, "going to Dazhai" was the first choice for domestic tourism. The year with the largest population is 1967, and * * has more than 3.7 million people, with a peak of tens of thousands a day. At that time, the road from Dazhai to Hutou Mountain was crowded with people, and people ate at the reception station from morning till night. "
Others have done such statistics, saying that from 1965 to 1978, "there are 2288 batches of foreigners coming to Hutou Mountain in Dazhai, with 134 countries and 25478 people." On the peak day, guests from more than 50 countries were received; There are 22 heads of state and government here, and the President of Mozambique has been here twice. "Shizai Jiang Qing once dug a trench at the foot of Hutou Mountain, but when she came back the next year, she was filled in by people from Dazhai, so she got angry once.
1965, Hutou Mountain, Hualien, Taiwan, Premier Zhou came to Hutou Mountain. He told the people of Dazhai that although the terraced fields were well built and there were many grain harvests, many trees still had to be planted to fundamentally change the ecological environment. Since then, Dazhai people have started the greening process of Hutou Mountain. In the sixties and seventies of last century, the land was reluctant to plant trees, so it planted trees in the crevices on Hutou Mountain, which provided more than 1000 mu of barren hills. In the 1980s, the agricultural structure was adjusted, and more than 300 acres of apple, peach, jujube and other fruit trees were planted on the sloping land. 199 1 year, Dazhai people "returned farmland to forests" and began to plant trees in Hutou Mountain. 1995 dispatched 300 people and employed more than 0/0000 people to blow up the pit in Hutou Mountain and fill it with soil, and planted more than 0/0000 pine and cypress trees in Shigan Mountain.
From 65438 to 0996, a forest park was built in Hutou Mountain, Dazhai. There are Premier Zhou's mountaineering memorial pavilion, Guo Moruo's monument, memorial pavilion, Chen Yonggui's tomb, writer Sun Gan's tomb, Dazhai Memorial Hall, Chen Yonggui's bust and other places of interest in the park. Ye Shuai's "Tiger Head Mountain" is carved on a natural boulder on the mountain. Hutoushan Forest Park has introduced 15 trees from Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan and other places, and Hutoushan has achieved three seasons of flowering and four seasons of evergreen. 1999, about 65,438+million tourists came to Dazhai, and the ticket income of Hutoushan Forest Park was 560,000 yuan.