Hualongyan Town, Fang County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Hualongyan town

Hualongyan town is located in Pingba area in the middle of Fangxian County, 18 kilometers away from the county seat, with a territory area of 157.9 square kilometers (2017). It has jurisdiction over 16 administrative villages, 117 villager groups and 25401 people (in 2017).

The origin of place names

There are several myths about the origin of the place name Hualong. the first story: it is said that when Fei Changfang, a famous doctor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, came back from searching for immortals and learning Taoism, because he was far away from his hometown, his master sent him a bamboo stick walking stick back to his hometown. After Fei Changfang returned home, the bamboo stick walking stick fell into the deep pool and turned into a golden dragon, which earned him the name of Hualong. the second story: a long time ago, the original name of hualongyan town was "xingjiapai". In Huanglongtan, canghuanggou, two miles away from xingjiapai, there lived a dragon. Every year in early February, when the second dragon raised his head, he would eat a pair of childhood girls. Narcissus gave the parents of the injured boys and girls a dream. He built a nine channel weir under the weir and placed a lotus knife on the pile to hide under the water and wait for Huang Since then, the common people are no longer harmed by Huanglong, and people live a happy life. From then on, xingjiapai was renamed "hualongyan".

History and culture

Hualongyan has a long history and many famous historical figures have left traces here. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang stationed troops in Changwang village of hualongyan town and fought wars. Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Meng Da went out of Sichuan and entered Sichuan. Tang Zongzhong and Li Xian were demoted to Fangzhou by Wu Zetian. Li Xian originally wanted to build Luling King City in hualongyan town. Half of the city was built, but it was forbidden by Wu Zetian. The site of Luling King's former residence is still in the ancient town of hualongyan town.

Evolution of organizational system

Hualongyan was divided into three districts of Fangxian County in 1949, Jundian Township in 1956, Jundian commune in 1958, Jundian District in 1961, Jundian commune in 1975, Hualong commune in 1977 and hualongyan town in 1984.

development pattern

The main crops in the town are grain and oil crops, and other economic crops. Grain is mainly rice, wheat and corn, oil is mainly rape, economic crops are mainly walnut and fruit medicine. The town has developed 20000 mu of walnut, 2000 mu of facility vegetable base and 2500 mu of fruit medicine base such as forsythia, Platycodon grandiflorum and Fig. the industrial development pattern of "fruit, medicine and pig" and "sheep, fungus and vegetable" has been formed.