administrative division
Dao County is located in Xiaoshuiyou, bordering ningyuan county in the east, Jiangyong County and Jianghua Yao Autonomous County in the south, Quanzhou and Guanyang County in Guangxi in the west, and Shuangpai County in the north. Geographical coordinates are north latitude1101'-110 56', and north latitude is 25 09'-25 50'. It is 77 kilometers long from north to south and 62.6 kilometers wide from east to west. The total area is 244 1 km2. The total population is 670,000 (2003).
Dao County has jurisdiction over 2 sub-district offices, 9 towns, 9 townships and 4 ethnic townships: Lianxi Sub-district Office, Xizhou Sub-district Office, Meihua Town, shouyan town, Xianzijiao Town, Qingtang Town, Xianglinpu Town, Gongba Town, Sima Town, Baimadu Town, Tang Fu Township, Lefutang Township, Qiaotou Township, Yingjiang Township, Wanjiazhuang Township, and so on. County People's Government is stationed in Daojiang Town.
In 2000, Dao County administered 9 towns, 10 townships and 4 ethnic townships. The total population is 624 199. In which: Daojiang Town 1 13530 people Meihua Town 30 180 Life Yan Town 6 1563 people Xianzijiao Town 24879 people Qingtang Town 33063 people Xianglinpu Town 34340 people Gongba Town 39353 people four maqiao town 29833 people Baimadu Town 27/Kloc. Renfutang Township 9092 people Wanjiazhuang Township 89 15 people Dongmen Township 15235 people Dongfutang Township 1 1280 people Qiaotou Township 3 1853 people Yingjiang Township 9 19 1. 13699 8423 people in Jingtang Yao Township Hengling Yao Township 8 16 1 Renhongtangying Yao Township 1 124 1 person.
The development of history
"Official Records of Hanshu" records: "There is a saying of barbarians in the county." Guyingdao County, Daozhou County, Hongdao County and later Daoxian County all got their names.
In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (22 1), Yingpu County was established, which was the beginning of the establishment of Daoxian County, and was named after the county was located on the bank of Shui Ying. In the Three Kingdoms period, in the first year of Wu Baoding (266), a county was established, and the county was ruled in Yingpu. The Sui Dynasty was Yongyang County. In the fourth year of Tang Wude (62 1), Lingling County and Yingdao County of Yongyang County were established in Yingzhou, and Yongyang County was changed to Yingdao County (the original Yingdao County was changed to Tangxing County). The following year, the state was changed to Nanyingzhou. In the eighth year of Zhenguan (633), it was renamed Daozhou. In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Daozhou was abandoned and the camp was changed to Yongzhou. In the second year of Shangyuan (675), Daozhou was restored and five counties were ruled, belonging to the British Island. In the first year of Tianbao (742), the state was changed to Jianghua County, and the county was changed to Hongdao. In the first year of Gan Yuan (758), the county name was abolished and the state was praised. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Daozhou still governed five counties, and Hongdao was ruled by the state. In Song San (962), Hongdao County was changed to Yingdao County. During the Song Dynasty, Daozhou governed four counties: Yingdao, Jianghua, Yongming and Ningyuan. In the 13th year of Yuan Dynasty (1276), Daozhou was set as the appeasement department, and the following year it was changed to Daozhou Road, and the Governor's Office was set up. Yingdao County belongs to Daozhou Road, Hunan, Huguang Province. In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), the state road was diverted to the state capital, and the camp road was governed by the government. In nine years, it was changed to Daozhou, and Daoxian was under the state's control, governing Ningyuan, Jianghua and Yongming counties. In the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), it was analyzed that Xintianbao in ningyuan county was located in Xintian County and was classified as Daozhou. In the third year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1664), Daozhou was reduced to a county-level scattered state. In the second year of the Republic of China (19 13), the diverted state was Dao county.
History and culture
Daozhou has been a famous historical and cultural city since ancient times with obvious advantages in historical and cultural resources. Since Yingpu County was established in Qin Dynasty, it has been 1500 years since the county, state, government and road administration were established. There are rich ancient cultural heritages here. 1995, the rice remains of 1000 years ago were unearthed at Yuchanyan site, and were identified as the earliest human farming specimens found in the world. In this hot land, celebrities such as Zhou Dunyi, the originator of Neo-Confucianism, He, the master of cursive script, and Kougong, a famous minister in the Song Dynasty, have been born successively. Daozhou women, represented by He Baozhen's chastity "not afraid of rape", have their strong and gentle side. Family care is a very valuable wealth and personality of Daozhou women, while Daozhou men are busy with their work and pursue their careers. The so-called only after getting married, it is very straightforward to show that Daozhou men are very enterprising and focus on every career that belongs to them, and they can be a gentle housewife when they go home. This is the so-called man's career and family!
Celebrities of past dynasties
Zhou Dunyi (10 17- 1073) was a philosopher in the Northern Song Dynasty. People from Dao County, Hunan Province. He used to be Dr. Cheng and Dr. Cheng of Dali Temple. Because the room was built next to the lower stream of Lotus Peak in Lushan Mountain, it was named "Lianxi Bookstore" and was later called "Mr. Lianxi". He inherited the Book of Changes, The Doctrine of the Mean and Taoist thought, and put forward a simple and systematic theory of the composition of the universe on the basis of Taoist Chen Tuan's Infinite Diagram. Taiji, Li, Qi, Sex and Fate put forward by him became the basic categories of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties. He himself became one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism. His works include Illustration of Taiji and General Book. Later generations compiled it into Zhou Ziquan's book.
Wu Bida (? ~? ), the word Cai Qing, Daozhou (now Daozhou, Hunan) people. In the year of Jong-won Lee in the Southern Song Dynasty (124 1), Xu Yanfu, an ugly family, ranked second. Wu Bida was originally the first scholar, but because of the official position, he was reduced to the second. Professor Jiankang was awarded, appointed as the leader of the Ministry of Rites and concurrently minister.
He (1799 ~ 1873) was a poet and calligrapher in Qing dynasty. The word Zizhen,No. Dongzhou lay man,No. Youhao. A native of Daozhou (now Daoxian), Hunan Province. Daoguang fifteen years (1835), the following year was awarded the position of scholar and editing. He has served as a school manager of Wenyuange and promoted by the National History Museum, and served as an examiner after passing the examinations in Fujian, Guizhou and Guangdong provinces. In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), he was appointed to study politics in Sichuan. The next year, he was dismissed as "nonsense" and was demoted and transferred to other posts. Since then, he has taught in Zhuowu Academy in Shandong and Chengnan Academy in Changsha for more than ten years. In his later years, he presided over Suzhou and Yangzhou Bookstore, published notes of Thirteen Classics, lectured at Zhejiang Xiaoliantang, and traveled to and from wuyue to teach students and apprentices. I've been drinking and traveling all my life, I've been to many famous mountains and rivers, I've visited many places of interest and I've also been to ancient times. He is the author of Postscript of Scholars in the Eastern Zhou Caotang, Notes on Poems and Talks in the Eastern Zhou Caotang, Cherishing Daoweizhai Classics, and Exegetical Correction. Where did Ruan Yuan and Cheng Enze go in and out? He was proficient in classics, law and arithmetic, especially in primary schools, where there were inscriptions. He is one of the important figures who advocated Song poetry in modern times. In poetry, it advocates "man and literature are one", "learn to be a man first", and then directly express one's temperament and "speak one's own words" (preface by Cao Qian and On Poetry by Wang Jushi). His poem Du Fu Han Su Zhu Ren is different, because it is triggered by emotion, so it is more sincere. He once wrote poems mocking the current situation, such as "Shanghai Miscellaneous Books", which said that "those who worry about the wind and rain have no sleep, and the sea and the country are equally divided." He was deeply indignant at the occupation of the concession by foreign invaders. However, due to the frustration of his official career and his temperament, he said that "all the words of birthday, complaints, gorgeous words and derogatory words are not pleasant and dare not speak" (Preface to Poetry in Dongzhou Caotang), and emphasized the "gentle and sincere" poetry teaching. Therefore, most of the poems are singing, painting and calligraphy, expressing personal life feelings, and rarely involving social and political content, such as "Shanghai Miscellaneous Books", regretting the occupation of foreign invaders. His landscape poems are good at depicting objective scenery in plain and natural language, which are quite distinctive, such as Shan Yu and Looking at the Flying Cloud Cave. He has made great achievements in calligraphy. Every style of calligraphy was forged by the ancients, forming its own family. The cursive writing is particularly good. He is the author of Postscript of Scholars in Eastern Zhou Caotang, Annotations on Exegetics, Poems in Eastern Zhou Caotang, Notes on Eastern Zhou Caotang, etc. His regular script is broad and broad, but it is not sparse. At the same time, he also incorporated the characteristics of the Northern Dynasties' inscriptions, the dense calligraphy of Ou Yangxun and Ouyang Tong, and the styles of Epitaph of a Black Woman and Daoyin Monument, which made his calligraphy unique. He's small letters inherited the tradition of calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty, and his brushwork was meaningful. His cursive script combines seal script and official script in one furnace, which is prosperous and unique. His seal script, centered with a pen, can be mixed with official script, with cursive style and unique. He's calligraphy developed smoothly in his early years, wandering between Yan Zhenqing, Li Yong, Wang Xizhi and the inscriptions in the Northern Dynasties, with a sense of integrity; Middle-aged people are getting older, their brushwork is getting more and more calm, their pens are shaking, and their taste is mellow; In his later years, He's calligraphy has reached perfection.
He Shaoqi, alias Xu Qian, was born in Daozhou (now Daoxian), Hunan Province. Shokidi In the 14th year of Daoguang (1834), he was awarded a position as an official to a Taoist priest in Zhejiang. Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher, can learn from his family.