Honggang Town, Tongshan County, Xianning City, Hubei Province

Honggang town

Honggang Town, located at the junction of Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, is an important town in the southeast of Hubei Province. Located in the upper reaches of the rich water tributary on the South Bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the counter current from east to west is hilly, low mountain and high mountain. The lowest is huafangfan, which is 55 meters above sea level. The highest is the main peak of Taiping mountain, which borders Jiangxi Province, which is 1329 meters. Honggang, the seat of the town government, is located at 114 ° 58 'e, 29 ° 58' n, which is 60 meters above sea level. The average temperature in January is 0 degrees, the average temperature in July is 30 degrees, the annual average temperature is 16.9 degrees, the annual rainfall is 1300-1500 mm, and the annual frost free period is about 255 days.

Historical evolution

Honggang was under the jurisdiction of Yanxia District of Yangxin County in history. In March 1950, it was under the jurisdiction of Tongshan County along with Yanxia, Dafan, Huangsha and other districts. In 1959, due to the construction of Fushui reservoir, Yanxia district office moved to Honggang barren mountain new market town.

geographical position

In the north is Yanxia Township, Yangxin County, Jiangxi Province; in the northeast is Longgang Town, Yangxin County, Jiangxi Province; in the southeast is quankou town and Dadong Town, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province, which share Taiping mountain and some villages in baodadong Township, C-type; in the south is Futian Town and Lixi town, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province, which share Taiping mountain and simian mountain; in the west is Jiugongshan scenic spot and Jiugongshan town.

administrative division

With an area of 230 square kilometers, Honggang town governs 15 villages and a residential community including maotianhe, Xiawan, Honggang, Sanxian, jiajiayuan, Sanyuan, Dongping, Shadian, Xikeng, Pantian, Chetian, Yanglin, Jiangyuan, Guoyuan and liuzui, with a total population of 38494 (2017).

natural resources

The main agricultural products are rice, sweet potato, corn, wheat and rape. The town is rich in tungsten, granite, marble, quartzite, bluestone, hot spring and mineral water. It is rich in Chinese fir, pine, bamboo and so on.

Cultural sites

It is said that the tanfei cave in Yanling mountain of Sanyuan village is the relic of Yu King's going to penggu (Jiujiang) to control the water. Yousheng palace of Taiping mountain was built in 1233 A.D. in the sixth year of emperor LiZong of Song Dynasty. It is an important Taoist temple in China. There is a Longtu Academy on the Beitai mountain of Chetian village. It was the place where Wu Zhong, the Bachelor of LongTuge in the Northern Song Dynasty, studied before he returned to office. Later generations built the Academy on the former site, which was famous far and wide. Wang's old house, an ancient folk house of Qing Dynasty in Jinshi mansion of Jiangyuan village, is composed of eight main houses and horizontal houses in parallel from east to west. It covers an area of 1404.36 square meters and is made of brick and wood. The main house is built of eight shaped gatehouse, one shaped gable on the top of a hard hill, covered with small green tiles. The external eaves are decorated with long ends and brick and tile wings. Each entrance is divided into a slot gate and a middle gate to advance the sky The second side of the well is decorated with perforated tiles to see the wall, the front and rear eaves are decorated with rolling shed and Watchboard, the main ridge is decorated with bucket arch, and the relief dragon shaped cantilever beam is used. The two and three entrances of the horizontal house are separated by the shadow wall type perforated flower wall. The whole building is tall and dignified, with a certain momentum. Its appearance and decoration are not full of Architectural Science and art value.

Location traffic

Honggang town has convenient transportation. Although the waterway is cut off by Fushui dam, there are 106 National Highway, 316 National Highway and Daqing Guangzhou Expressway passing through. It is 80-200 km away from Wuhan, Ezhou, Huangshi, Xianning, Nanchang, Jiujiang and other large and medium-sized cities.

education

Honggang primary and secondary school