Humanistic connotation of townships and towns

Xiangchang Town has a unique ancient architectural complex in southwest Anhui. Xiangchang is a traffic fortress. Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the commercial economy has flourished, which can be seen from the existing ancient streets and a large number of exquisite ancient buildings. "Records of Qianshan County" records: "Xiangchang Old Street began in the Yuan Dynasty and became an important market town on the ancient road from Hubei to Anqing." Xiangchang Old Street, which has a history of more than 600 years, is still more than 300 meters long and 4 meters wide. There are three well-preserved ancient bridges, as well as Fangshi Ancestral Hall, Fangshi Spectrum Hall and Xizi Pavilion built before the Qing Dynasty. With the ancient buildings in the old street as the core, Xiangchang has preserved a large number of ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Representative ones are Wanjialou, Hu Ancestral Hall, Wu's Hall, Wang Ancestral Hall, Hu's former residence, Wu's official residence, Qin Ancestral Hall, etc. According to the investigation of ancient architecture experts in the province, it is considered that the ancient architecture in Yuexi

Historical relics of townships and towns

Architecture, with simple exterior and elegant interior, has both the roughness of ancient houses in the north and the beauty of ancient houses in the south, and has obvious transitional and compatible characteristics, forming a self-contained feature of southwest Anhui. The ancient buildings of Xiangchang, represented by Xiangchang Old Street, are outstanding representatives of ancient buildings in southwest Anhui. These well-preserved, massive and beautifully constructed ancient buildings not only witnessed the prosperity of the ringing intestines in history, but also provided a large number of physical specimens for studying the architectural culture and clan culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The townships and towns have a dangerous terrain and have been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. Among the mountains, there are still many ancient villages, castles and ancient battlefield sites. To the east of Xiangchang Town, there is a riverside hut with an altitude of 1 200 meters. There are hundreds of meters of stone walls and more than a dozen PLA barracks. There is a water village in the west of Xiangchang Town, with an altitude of 956 meters, and the wall of the stone village is as high as 1000 meters. There is Baiyun Village in the southwest of Xiangchang Town, with an altitude of 786 meters. In addition to the stone village wall, there is also a point platform, a racecourse and a school yard. There is Shenma Village next to Baiyun Village. Relying on these natural disasters and fortifications, Zhang Dexing, an Anfu envoy, fought the Yuan Army here at the end of the Song Dynasty, and the armies of Li Zicheng and Zhang fought here successively at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Yucheng of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fought against the Qing army here. In the late 1920s, Wang Buwen, the first secretary of Anhui Provincial Party Committee (from Wenquan Town, Yuexi County) spread revolutionary ideas here and secretly developed the Party organization. Under his influence, Chen and Wang Yu 1930 broke out in Xiangshui Village on February 4th. 1300 More than 300 revolutionary masses gathered in Shi Shui Village to declare a riot and establish the independence of the buried hill of the Red Army of workers and peasants.

Scenery of Xiangchang Town

Lishi (later renamed the Second Independent Division of the Red Army Central Committee). Please write a glorious page in the history of Anhui revolution, open up a revolutionary base with heaven as the core, and establish the Buried Hill Revolutionary Committee, which is one of the earliest 17 red regimes in the north and south of Dabie Mountain. Xiangchang town has attached great importance to writing since ancient times, and there are many talented people: Xia, the general of Shanhaiguan in the Qing Dynasty, and his descendants have collected metaphors of the emperor's hand-beating; There is Chen Runzhi, the "general of generals in ancient times" sealed by Emperor Guangxu; Wu, courtier of Qing Dynasty; There are Northern Expedition General Wu Bozhou and Anti-Japanese General Shijun Wu; Hu, a talented diplomat; And a large number of revolutionary martyrs, such as Wang Jun, former secretary of the county party committee of Zhong * * * Qianshan County, Wang, former chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Qianshan County, Chen, former director of the Political Department of the Second Independent Division of the Red Army Central Committee, and Wu, former secretary of the county party committee of Zhong * * * Qianshan County. At present, Qin, a young industrialist who has obtained more than 50 national patents and enjoyed special allowance from the State Council, has spread his works to Fang Zhongchuan, a young calligrapher in 10 countries.