Taozhu Town, Linhai City, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province

Taozhu town

Taozhu town is the central town of Taizhou. It is located in the east coast of Taizhou, adjacent to Shangpan town in the south, Sanmen County in the north and Duqiao and Xiaozhi towns in the West. It has a land area of 129 square kilometers, a sea area of more than 600 square kilometers and a coastline of 30 kilometers. Under its jurisdiction, there are 5 work films and 80 administrative villages, with a total of 94736 people (in 2017). In recent years, it has won the honorary titles of "national beautiful environment town", "national rattan ball training base", "provincial health town", "provincial education town", "provincial sports town", "provincial tourism town" and "provincial civilization Town".

In January 2019, Taozhu town was selected as the seventh batch of famous historical and cultural towns in China.

Historical evolution

Taozhu got its name from the ancient military city of Taozhu, built by Qi Jiguang to fight against Japanese pirates. The ancient city of Taozhu has been an ocean since ancient times, surrounded by mountains on three sides. It was not until the early Ming Dynasty when Weisuo was built that it gradually became a seaside market town. Later, the local people reclaimed the tideland and planted peach trees in xuanzhu, hence the name of Taozhu.

economic development

primary industry

Taozhu town has a high degree of agricultural industrialization with the integration of agriculture, industry and commerce. It is the harvest season of agricultural products in the second half of the year. Among them, the "east bank" tangerine in Taozhu ancient city has a good taste, and it is produced and sold by itself, which drives the local people to become rich. There are 800 Mu provincial grain self-sufficiency projects such as hehuatang and beijiantang, and 1000 mu national commodity grain base as the leading high-quality rice base in the town. The vegetable planting area of the town is more than 20000 mu, and the fruit planting area is more than 20000 mu, including 1000 mu of high grafting area. "Dongan", "Taozhu", "Donglin", "jinkoufu" and other agricultural products trademarks have been approved and registered by the State Administration for Industry and commerce. There are 8500 beaches in the town, with a mariculture area of 10000 mu, including nearly 5000 mu of famous and excellent mariculture areas such as large yellow croaker, rainbow clam and Taiwan grass shrimp.

the secondary industry

It has initially formed pillar industries focusing on nuts, rubber industry, clothing, festival lights, etc. With a prosperous commodity market and active trading of agricultural and sideline products and aquatic products, Linhai is an important commercial and trade town.

social undertakings

Taozhu town

There are 5 middle schools, 15 primary schools and 1 adult education school. Among them, Xiaocun primary school was awarded the title of Taizhou rural model school, and was determined as the actual research base of "modern primary school teaching" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The middle school education is full of characteristics. Taozhu middle school has a team of men's and women's rattan teams that have won the national championship, and has transported many players for the national team.

famous scenery

Taozhu town is a big tourist town. Wen Tianxiang, the Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, once called it the "sea fairy kingdom". There are two "state guarantees" on top of her head, and one is the "sea fairy kingdom"

Taozhu military ancient city

. It was built in 1387, the 20th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It was built by Qi Jiguang to fight against Japanese pirates. The protection and development of military ancient city invested by national debt is in full swing. One is

Taozhu National Geopark

. It is famous for the volcanic geological relics of the late Cretaceous period. The cliffs of the rock peak are extremely steep, towering and magnificent. It is composed of peak cluster, peak wall, Tianshengqiao, cave forest, peak column and peak forest landscape. It has a unique style of "Wanzhu mountain", "Qianzhu peak", "Baizhu cliff", "shanlanbi", "Wolong Valley" and other fascinating Stone Forest wonders, which are amazing. In addition, the natural bathing beach of Haishan park is full of waves and is a summer resort for tourists. Taozhu city preserves the pattern of streets and lanes in Ming Dynasty. The main street is 3 meters wide, east-west, connecting the East and west gate with the original Zuoying Yamen and school yard. To the north of the main street, there is a secondary Street parallel to the main street, next to the Hualong canal passing through the city from west to East. Taking the main street as the trunk, there are more than 10 ancient lanes facing it vertically, 7 in the north and 4 in the south of the main street. There is also an ancient road around the inner side of the southeast West City, which is connected with the pedaling trail built in the north of the city according to the mountain situation, forming a ring road in the city. These roads form a network of streets and alleys with clear layers, centers and boundaries. The Anti Japanese exhibition hall was established to commemorate the immortal contributions of the famous Anti Japanese general Cheng Jiguang, who fought in the north and south, to wipe out the Japanese pirates, to defend the country and the people, to stimulate patriotism, to strengthen the education of revolutionary tradition, and to play the role of historical relics in the socialist economic construction. The exhibition hall was built in April 1993 with an area of more than 900 square meters. The famous calligrapher Lu Lequn wrote the title of "Taozhu exhibition hall against Japanese invaders", and the couplet on both sides was written by Mr. Wang Ji Guang of Qi Jiguang Memorial Hall in Jiaojiang City, and the couplet was written by Mr. Wang Ji: "building Taozhu, the enemy of Taiwan, the leader of the great wall, and pacifying the Japanese invaders in Fujian and Zhejiang as the heroes of the Chinese nation.". The banner of inner gate "sharpening mountains and rivers" is inscribed by Li Chengchang, deputy secretary of Taizhou prefectural Party committee, and the couplet of inner gate "why should we visit Chibi in memory of the past, who can not remember Taozhu in defense of aggression" is the handwriting of General Zhang Chongwen. When you enter the exhibition hall, you will see a statue of Qi Jiguang standing in front of you. You can see the murals in the mountains and waters of Taozhu city in the background. The exhibition hall is divided into five rooms. The first room in the East is cultural relics and historical materials. It displays City bricks, Qi Jiguang's stele, military knives, Yuanyang array, etc. East Room 2 is a famous painting and calligraphy exhibition, which mainly displays works of famous artists in Taizhou; West Room 1 is a group of paintings of "Qi Jiguang's Anti Japanese war in Taizhou", which systematically and briefly reflects the whole process of Qi Jiguang's Anti Japanese war in Taizhou, with a total of 20 pieces; West Room 2 is Taozhu scenery, which displays beautiful coastal scenery of Taozhu, with a total of 43 color expansion group paintings. beacon tower of Shangtang on the enemy tower of the ancient city stone inscriptions of "overlooking" and stele protection Pavilion. Looking to the east at the head of Taozhu City, the stone castle on the top of Shangtang mountain is the beacon tower. Beacon tower, also known as beacon hous, is an alarm facility in ancient wars. When we found out that the enemy was coming, the Sun City burned smoke and light at night to quickly transmit information. There were seven beacon towers related to Taozhu City, all of which were set up in the Ming Dynasty to fight against Japanese invaders. At that time, she was subordinate to the Taozhu qianhusuo. It was the most complete one in existence. It was 9 meters square at the base and 6 meters square at the mouth of the platform. All of them were built with stones. This is the site with two characters "overlooking" carved on the cliff. The title is "General Hu Hai of the Ming and Chu Dynasties". Hu Hai, with the word "ocean", is definitely funny. Hong Wu followed the General Xu Da to attack Luzhou. He was brave and good at fighting. He was full of sores and made great achievements. As for the "overlooking" rock, predecessors have described it: "there is a huge stone on the top of the mountain, which is like a plate. If you hold out the cloud surface, with a virtual view, the sea is wide, the sky is low, and the sky is vast. When the sky is shining, you can see it from dozens of miles. He wrote a poem: "the sea is full of vicissitudes, and the cliff record is better than Hu Gong.". Silver hook and iron painting really Yan Liu, still see the beginning of the work. Located on the west side of the "Liaoyuan" cliff, the tablet protection pavilion was built in 1986 to protect the stele of the Ming Dynasty. Pavilion in the cliff wing ran flying, abrupt strange. She is a Ming style building with ancient and exquisite structure. In the middle of the pavilion stands a stone tablet with a base height of 0.3 meters, a height of 1.6 meters, a width of 0.8 meters, and a thickness of 0.11 meters. It is engraved with the inscription of the new enemy platform tablet. In the Wansong path to the southwest of hubeiting, there are two big characters "Zhenhai" in regular script with no title beside, but the font style and size are similar to "overlooking". According to the handwriting of Bao Damou, a calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, who mainly praises the achievements of Qi generals in the war between the north and the south, and in bringing down the Japanese pirates, his predecessors once wrote a poem: calming the rock for hundreds of spring, the dragon and the tiger are towering, Bao Gongjian's pen has been around for thousands of years, and half of it is covered with moss, The two trees are more than 20 meters high and 0.4 meters in diameter. They grow in a convex shape, incline upward, and are covered with dragon scales, but they are full of fun. The branches and crowns of the two trees crisscross and depend on each other. The female tree trunk is full of vigorous needles and green leaves. It is 9 meters long at the fork and has two branches that are bent like arms. She wants to hold the male tree in her arms. The male tree is 12 meters long and has a branch that is like a long arm extending to the female tree. You help me and take care of each other. From a distance, it looks like a green pile. It can be called a "longevity couple". HeQiao academy and Tianfei palace the eastern foot of Housuo mountain in the city is called Heqiao because the hillside is uplifted like Qiao, and there are often cranes living here. The Academy built here is naturally called Heqiao Academy. Heqiao Academy was founded in the 15th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. In the 25th year of Jiaqing period, it was burned in the fire, and the city dweller Lang Zhengzhai rebuilt it. The ancient Maple invaded the air, and the site was quiet. It's just missing the scale of the Academy. There were many famous scholars here. Lin Disheng, consultant of the State Education Commission, studied in this academy. Yang Zhengou, an outstanding figure of the 1911 Revolution in Taizhou, once served as the head of the Academy. Located just above the Anti Japanese exhibition hall and southeast of Tianfei palace, the running script "Shengjing" was inscribed by general Zhang Zongwen, former deputy director of the Political Department of the railway forces in 1990. Tianfei palace is located in Gaofu on the hillside of Housuo mountain. It was built in the early years of the Ming Dynasty to worship empress dowager and protect fishermen. The Tianfei palace, which has been built and burned repeatedly, has three temples, facing east and West. It is said that Tian Hou Lin Mo Niang was born in Meizhou, Putian. She was intelligent, studious, brave and kind-hearted since she was a child. She could foresee the weather changes. She had the ability to expel evil spirits, cure diseases, swim and sail. She often gave medicine to the villagers nearby and went out to sea to rescue the fishing boats in distress. After eclosion into an immortal, the sun soared, folk known as the "Dragon Girl" and "immortal", the history of its respect for the protection of navigation God. Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty was granted the title of "protecting the country and protecting the people, Miaoling Zhao Ying Hongren and Puji Tianfei", Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was granted the title of "protecting the country and protecting the people, Miaoling Zhao Ying Hongren and Puji Tianfei", with the name of "Goddess of heaven", commonly known as "Mazu Niang". stone column sky lamp stone column sky lamp, close to the east side of the back wall of Tianfei palace, with a height of 2.8 meters, a square body and a width of 20 cm. A square stone is installed at the end of the column,