Taokeng Township, Chaling County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province

Taokeng Township

Taokeng Township, under the jurisdiction of Chaling County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, is the largest township in Chaling County. The township has 25 administrative village committees (Kengkou, Shangping, Dafen, Shitan, yekeng, Taokeng, Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, Maxi, Daijiang, Tianhe, Xiale, Dongjiang

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, Xikeng, Datang, Xiangjiang, Guaping, Chunfeng, Jiaoping, Xiaofeng, Limin, Huali, Caixia. The township government is stationed in kengkouwei, a neighborhood committee, 190 villager groups, 8778 people (in 2017), more than 90% of the villagers said

Hakka language

. More than 90% of the villagers speak Hakka language. On July 1, 2014, Chaling South Station of Jilin Hengshui railway was completed and opened to traffic. Taking the train from Chaling south station to Hengyang, 107 km west, only costs 16.5 yuan and takes 90 minutes.

Immigration work

In 2007, the effect of resettlement was remarkable. As the main inundated area in the reservoir area, there were 1733 households and 7146 people in Taokeng Township who needed to be relocated. The key project of "long everything, only this is big" poured the hard work and sweat of the people and workers in the township. In response to the call of the party and the government, the majority of immigrants gave up their small families to support the construction of Taoshui reservoir and moved their families. Taokeng township government cadres, as the vanguard of immigration work, went deep into village groups and immigrant households, inspired immigrants with policies, promoted immigrants with feelings, and served immigrants with actions. They did a lot of work. 80% of them signed immigration agreements and 50% of them started building houses. In 2007, the promotion rate of middle schools ranked the first in the county's township run middle schools, and the comprehensive rate of primary schools also ranked the top; we paid attention to the protection and inheritance of Hakka fire dragon, a key intangible cultural heritage preservation project at the provincial level, so as to carry it forward.

History and Administration

It is named for its location in the peach shaped depression. It belonged to five districts and nine districts in 1949, Kengkou Township and Taokeng Township in 1956, Wanbao commune in 1958, Taokeng commune in 1961 and Taokeng Township in 1984. The former Jiangkou Township belonged to nine districts in 1949. It was established in 1956, Wanbao commune in 1958, Jiangkou commune in 1961, and returned to township in 1984. In 2005, the former Jiangkou Township and Taokeng Township merged to establish a new Taokeng township. By the end of 2005, the total population was 16858, including 433 non-agricultural population. the original code of Taokeng township: 430224201. The original Jiangkou township (Code: 430224200), in 2004 jurisdiction: Xiangjiang, Guaping, Chunfeng, Jiaoping, Xiaofeng, Limin, Huali, Caixia eight village committees.

Famous and popular culture

There are two kinds of folk songs in the county: Chaling folk songs and Hakka folk songs. Chaling folk songs and minor. Chaling folk songs are mostly flat tunes with strong lyricism. The minor style is euphemistic, which is mostly absorbed by Tea Picking Opera; Hakka folk songs have a wide range of sound, many rhythm changes, and are simple and rough. According to the content, there are labor songs, love songs, Shangliang songs, weeping songs, funeral songs, gambling songs and so on. on the Lantern Festival, every family in the county hangs "spring lights" to eat the Lantern Festival, and every household in the countryside lights candles and eats "Jipo dumplings". Jipo dumplings are made of rice flour and dyed red and green. They are mostly made of chicken, duck, goose, pig, cow, sheep, dog, fish, melon and fruit, lion rolling ball, etc.
Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to dragon boat race, inserted Acorus mugwort leaves, eat realgar wine, and eat "ten sons", sprinkle garlic water, Duanyang water bath and other customs. "Ten seeds" are zongzi, Baozi, beans, garlic, chicken (egg), plum, peach, plum, jujube, melon seeds, etc.