Mao Tan Village was built in the early Ming Dynasty with a long history. It has a rich cultural heritage and a quaint humanistic landscape. The area is surrounded by mountains, rivers and lakes. East Street, West Street and T-shaped Street are distributed in the village. There are rows of shops and workshops, the residential areas are adjacent, and the streets and lanes are paved with stone slabs. There are more than ten ancestral temples in the village, which are integrated with antique, simple and elegant ancient houses, ancient archways and simple folk customs, forming a huge and powerful feudal family village and becoming the only way for Xiajiang pilgrims to worship Buddha in Jiuhua Mountain. As a descendant of Du Mu and Du Xunhe, famous poets in Anhui and Tang Dynasties, Mao Tan was the first of the "four surnames" in Guichi because of his prosperous population. In order to commemorate their ancestors, the Du family invested and built the Duke Temple in Xinghua Village, Guichi, in order to remember the achievements of their ancestors. Du ancestral hall, built in Ming and Qing Dynasties, is the only Du ancestral hall in Anhui Province and a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province. As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mao Tan was famous for its beautiful landscapes, rich products, simple folk customs and the world style of "land to the tiller, leveling the world". Li Yong, the prefect of Ming Dynasty, wrote an inscription for Mao Tan, praising "Ten Scenes of Mao Tan" and calling Mao Tan "Xiaochiyang". 1933, the first Chizhou Commissioner admired Naiqi for a long time. As soon as he arrived, he made a special trip to Mao Tan for a "spring outing" and presented an impromptu couplet: "Apricot flowers and wine, chrysanthemum poems, Tang Yinhua, leave love for future generations; Call Du Qi, old Du Kebi, look at Du Temple, I am late for spring outing. " For 600 years, Mao Tan has been a bright pearl in ancient Chizhou.
Mao Tan Village is rich in mineral resources, which have been explored by the provincial geological team, including copper, gold, iron, fluorite and other mineral resources. In particular, Maoling copper mine has a map to check. The aquatic resources are more abundant. The water surface area of 18 wetlands in China (now renamed Jiuhua Lake) is 1592hm? The swamp area is 45 1hm? The square is an ideal habitat and breeding ground for all kinds of wintering waterfowl (including migratory birds), and it is also an important channel for migratory birds to migrate. There are 0/22 species of birds/kloc-in the wetland, including more than 30 species of first-class and second-class birds under state protection, 0/6 species of benthos, 39 species of fish, 0/8 species of mammals/kloc-and 0/5 species of reptiles, which are now listed as provincial wetland nature reserves.
Since the founding of New China, the industrious people of Mao Tan have carried forward the spirit of "Red Flag Canal" and set off a climax of building water conservancy projects, transforming wasteland, building sluice stations and transforming basic farmland. At the same time, vigorously develop agricultural production and implement diversified management. Agriculture, forestry, mulberry, hemp and fishing will go hand in hand, especially aquaculture has been scaled up. "Mao Tan Fish" is famous in the surrounding urban areas because of its excellent quality and delicious taste, and the market is in short supply. Eighteen "Old Fisherman" brand wild fish has become a well-known brand in Chizhou. Therefore, Mao Tan Village has become a famous land of fish and rice in Chizhou. Since the reform and opening up, Mao Tan Village has actively implemented the radiation project of attracting investment, and successfully attracted Guangdong businessmen to establish the largest freshwater nucleated pearl breeding base in China in 1999. In 2000, merchants from Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province were introduced to set up a village waterworks, which completely changed the drinking conditions of the people. In recent years, funds have been introduced to transform wasteland and waste water, three new fishery farms, several garment processing plants and near 10 ecological chicken farm have been built, and professional cooperatives have been established, creating an atmosphere of "pro-business, safe business and wealthy businessmen". Nowadays, the construction of market towns has begun to take shape, the construction of new countryside has achieved remarkable results, cement roads are fully connected, solar street lamps are convenient for villagers to travel at night, and various infrastructures are constantly improved. The well-off life pattern of "upstairs and downstairs, lights on the phone" has been fully formed.