Jizushan Town, Binchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Jizushan town

Jizushan town is located in Binchuan County, Yunnan Province, with a total area of 257.13 square kilometers. There are 10 ethnic groups including Han, Bai and Lisu living in the town. It governs 9 administrative villages, 56 natural villages and 97 villager groups. The cultivated land area is 23994 mu, the per capita cultivated land area is 1.10 mu, and the population density is 78 people / square kilometers. In the total population, the Bai nationality accounts for 45.3%. In 2008, the total population of the town was 25560, and the total number of households was 7087, including 25060 agricultural population and 500 non-agricultural population; the land area was 315.78 square kilometers, the cultivated land area was 27883 mu, and the per capita cultivated land area was 1.09 mu.

District situation

Jizushan town is located at the foot of Jizushan, a national AAAA scenic spot, 30 kilometers away from the county seat. It is adjacent to Jinniu Town in the East, Daying Town in the south, Dali City in the northwest, Lijiao town in the northeast and Heqing County in the north. The predecessor of Jizushan town is Liandong township. On March 29, 1999, the people's Government of Yunnan Province approved the abolition of Liandong Township, and the four village committees of shangcang, baidangping, Jianggu and Guanli originally under the jurisdiction of Daying Township were assigned to Jizushan town. In 2004, nearly 2600 people who lost their living conditions in four villages and towns of Binchuan mountain area were relocated to dabazi, Jizushan Town, and a new village committee of dabazi was set up. So far, the town governs 8 village committees, 64 natural villages and 99 villager groups, including Liandong, Diantou, Shazhi, dabazi, shangcang, baidangping, Jianggu and Guanli. There are 10 ethnic groups, including Han, Bai and Yi, in which Bai accounts for 40%.

Geography and climate

Jizushan town is located at the foot of Jizushan, one of the five famous Buddhist mountains in China, in the northwest corner of Binchuan County, Dali Prefecture, between 100 ° 17 ′ - 100 ° 31 ′ E and 25 ° 49 ′ - 25 ° 59 ′ n, 32 km away from the county seat. It is connected with Jinniu Town in the East, Erhai Lake in Dali in the west, Daying Town in the south, Heqing County in the north and Lijiao town in the northeast. The town government is located at an altitude of 1818.6 meters, with an average annual temperature of 13 ℃ and an average annual rainfall of 932 mm.

Population composition

Jizushan town governs 7 village committees, 92 villager groups and 84 natural villages. There are 22581 people in 5478 households in the town, including 22079 people in 5188 agricultural households and 502 people in 290 non-agricultural households. The population density is 72 per square kilometer. Ethnic groups with more than 20 people: 106% are Han nationality, 10232 are Bai nationality, 183 are Yi nationality, 1455 are Lisu nationality, and ethnic minorities account for 52.81% of the total population.

economic development

Jizushan town has convenient transportation and rich resources. There are niusha highway and Yanhua highway running through the whole area, Kanghe road and bindeng road connecting Dali and Lijiang to form a large tourist transportation ring road; there are high edible value of xiaobaicaowu, Fuzi, Lengjun, Jicong and other specialties, as well as mountain peach, apricot, white papaya, chestnut, pickled walnut, waxberry, orange, grape, loquat and so on. Jizushan town has carefully cultivated three pillar industries of flue-cured tobacco, tourism and flax, and successively set up non-public enterprises such as Nanzhao Royal Wine Industrial Corporation, Jizushan local product development company, Jizushan Biological Resources Development Co., Ltd., Jizushan Mingquan Co., Ltd., Limin building materials factory, Fodu Shenqi Co., Ltd., Huayu flax Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. to develop Dozens of "farmhouse" tourists and more than 500 individual businesses have been established, and three scientific livestock breeding demonstration bases have been established. At the same time, relying on the Buddhist culture of Jizushan for more than one thousand years and the architectural art of Bai People's houses, with the theme of high starting point, high-grade, distinctive, and highlighting the harmonious development between man and nature, the school of Humanities and arts of Chongqing University was invited to make the overall planning and detailed planning of Jizushan town's urban construction, with an investment of more than 50 million yuan, and built a building full of "green tiles, white walls, watercolor" It is a small town with the architectural characteristics of "three squares and one screen wall, four in five patios, two courtyards in front and back, and streams around houses", which has significantly improved the urban service function. In 2003, the total rural economic income of the town reached 81.47 million yuan, the town level financial income reached 3.55 million yuan, the per capita net income of farmers reached 1838 yuan, the number of self-employed workers reached 1500, the completed business income was 80.63 million yuan, and the total industrial output value was 9.09 million yuan.

Cultural details

Jizushan town has rich national culture, long history and culture, simple folk customs and pure folk customs. Eating Yuanxiao on the first day of the Lunar New Year and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a common traditional custom of the Bai nationality in Dali. In Shazhi, there is also the custom of eating Yuanxiao after a successful marriage proposal. The bowl of Yuanxiao cooked by the girl's family for the young man who has come to propose is called "dingxinwan", which means profound and interesting. The torch festival is an ancient custom of the Bai and Yi Nationalities. However, in Shazhi, there is a torch festival for steaming The custom of steamed bread testing the future daughter-in-law's ability to run a family, and the custom of "ten sisters" and "Ten Brothers" in the sand site organizing wedding events to send off and welcome relatives These unique customs, from one side, reflect the aesthetic consciousness and value orientation of Bai, Yi, Lisu and other ethnic minorities in Shazhi area, and also reflect the relationship between people and history and tradition. This has a certain reference value for the study of the formation of the local national concept, national psychology and national traditional culture.

famous scenery

Jizu mountain Jizu mountain is a national AAAA scenic spot, located in Binchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, 86 kilometers away from the ancient city of Dali, 410 kilometers away from Kunming, the spring city. Tianzhu peak, the highest peak, is 3248 meters above sea level, with a vast cliff, a thousand miles of green and steep. It is named after "three peaks in the front, one mountain behind, just like chicken feet". Siqian village Siqian village is located at the foot of Jizu mountain, backed by the famous temple of Jiulian temple. It is the only place to go up to Jizu mountain. It was originally named Fengwei village, because it is backed by the tail of Fenghuang Mountain in Jizu mountain.