Shimo Township, Gaoping City, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province

Shimo Township

Shimo Township

Located in the southeast of Gaoping City, Shanxi Province, it was originally called Dianpu Town, Panlong town and Shicun town. It is 19 kilometers away from the urban area. It is adjacent to Lingchuan town in the East, Beiyi town in Zezhou County in the south, Hexi Town and Mishan town in the West and Beishi town in the north

Gaoping and Jincheng were divided into counties in 1961, belonging to Shimei people's commune; on May 25, 1984, the government and society were separated, belonging to Shimei township. Township People's Government in Shimei, named after the resident village. It has jurisdiction over 17 administrative villages, 33 natural villages, 88 villager groups, with a permanent population of 15677 (2017), a total cultivated land of 33608 Mu and a grain field area of 29880 mu. There are many tourist attractions in the territory, such as Baima temple, Bixia palace, Xuansheng temple, Millennium jujube tree, Houzhuang laonan courtyard, sanhuaizhuang Erxian temple, etc.

geographical environment

The area is about 9 kilometers long from north to south, 8.5 kilometers wide from east to west, covering an area of 47.75 square kilometers and 1200 meters high. Most of the area is hilly. In the East, there are muzhang mountain and Honghua mountain, in the southwest, Ma'anshan and Wansong mountain, in the west, bailongwang mountain, in the northwest, miaowa mountain, in the northeast, Zhaohu mountain, in the middle, Zifeng mountain, rich in natural resources, and rich in coal, iron, aluminum, vanadium, clay, etc Tongtu, pyrite, limestone, etc. are widely distributed, with large reserves and shallow burial, which are suitable for mining; the whole township has a warm temperate monsoon climate, with dry and windy spring, hot and rainy summer, wet and cool autumn, cold and little snow in winter, with an annual average temperature of 10.3 ℃, maximum temperature of 35 ℃ and minimum temperature of - 18 ℃. The annual average rainfall is 550 mm, mainly from July to September. The frost free period is 180 days. Gaoling high-speed, double track and Shihe line run through the territory.

administrative division

It has 17 administrative villages

Economics

The whole township has formed a new pattern of planting structure adjustment with grain, breeding, three cherry pepper, dry land vegetables and high-quality potato as the main parts. Especially in the demonstration and promotion of w-film mulching planting technology, it has been praised by the national Department of agriculture and affirmed by provinces and cities. The promotion area has reached nearly ten thousand mu. Rural agricultural social services and scientific and technological innovation work by the state, province, city commendation. In 2007, the national agricultural work site meeting was held at the end of the stone. In 2009, it was rated as "Shanxi Province Patriotic Health Model Town", and in 2010, it was rated as "Jincheng City Patriotic Health advanced town". in recent years, closely around the four major strategies of agricultural stability, ecological development, education and cultural vitality, the township has vigorously carried forward the spirit of "hard work, unwilling to lag behind, rich but thinking about the source", strived hard to meet the difficulties, vigorously strengthened the construction of rural infrastructure, actively adjusted and optimized the agricultural production structure, position construction, channel greening, grade a health center, and cultural "five aspects" The projects of "you" facilities, household water supply and household cement road have been fully covered. The facility agriculture demonstration zone focusing on "one district and four areas" has been fully launched. The pepper deep processing production line with an investment of 16 million yuan will be fully put into operation. The first-class stone end boarding primary school with an investment of 18 million yuan in Gaoping City will be successfully completed, and the teaching buildings and restaurants of township run middle schools with an investment of more than 5 million yuan will be built 17 administrative villages will be built into high standard ecological garden villages according to the plan

History and culture

According to archaeological findings, at the latest in the late Paleolithic period, there were human settlements in Shimo township. During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Jizhou belonged to the state of Jin in the spring and Autumn period. After the division of Jin, it belonged to Han first and then to Zhao. After the war of Qin and Zhao Changping, it belonged to Shangdang county. The Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Wei and the two Jin dynasties belong to Shangdang County; in the early years of the Republic of China, Shimo town belonged to Jining road of Shanxi Province; in the year of the Republic of China, Shimo town was directly under the central government of Shanxi Province; after the year of the Republic of China, Shimo town belonged to the fifth administrative region of Shanxi Province. In the 30 years of the Republic of China, the Communist Party established a base in Gaoping, which was under the jurisdiction of Taiyue district. In the 32 years of the Republic of China, it was classified as linggao county. In June 1945, Gaoping City was liberated. In October of the same year, linggao county was abolished and still belonged to Gaoping City, belonging to the fourth special district of Taiyue. In 1948, it was transferred to Taiyue No.3 special district.

Travel

The cultural relics and historic sites include the Dragon King Temple in Longwang mountain, which is neatly built and well preserved. Shimo village has a thousand year old Zizyphus jujuba tree, which is tall and straight; the old South courtyard of the Zhao family in Houzhuang is famous as soon as it enters the 18th courtyard. In 1988, the scattered martyrs' monuments were concentrated here, and the martyrs' cemetery in Shimo township was built. In the center of the cemetery stands the immortal tower of revolutionary martyrs. The old South courtyard of Houzhuang was built in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. It was the residence of modern capitalists Zhao Bozhou and Zhao Zhongzhou. turning over stele turning over monument of Shimo village turning over stele with inscription is placed in the pavilion. A couplet is carved on the two front columns

It's hard to live without blood and tears in the past

Look now, democracy, freedom, reasoning, root, turn over

horizontal marking“

Turn over

”, hanging on the top of the pavilion. "Fanshen stele" is 2.4 meters high, 0.73 meters wide and 0.25 meters thick. The front of the stele is engraved with a picture of "rent reduction, debt clearing and anti traitor movement" and the reverse is a picture of "mass production" reflecting villagers' farming. On the front and back sides of the stele, there are fields for sowing, magpies for plum blossoms, soldiers, crops and geometric patterns. In June 1945, after the liberation of Gaoping, Shanxi Province, the land reform movement began in the local area. According to the old man, it took nearly a year to build the pavilion. In order to build this stele Pavilion, a preparatory committee was specially set up in Shimo village. More than 20 craftsmen from the village and nearby villages were employed. "The name of the craftsmen I still remember is Yang Jinfu of the village." "Turning over stele" is engraved with the words "the ninth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in the 35th year of the Republic of China". Li Guifa and Li Zhiwen said that the ninth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the traditional temple fair day in the village, which continues to this day. "You can imagine how lively the scene was at the completion ceremony of turning over stele at that time! Today, this well preserved turning monument is still telling people the glorious and unforgettable history of that year. Sanhuaizhuang village turning monument is located on the ridge of sanhuaizhuang village, Shimo Township, Gaoping City. In April 1947, all the people of sanhuai village stood together. The body of the stone tablet is limestone, which is built in the sand stone pavilion. The monument faces south and covers an area of about 30 square meters. In 2009, when the new rural construction households connected the cement road, the original wall of the monument was removed, and the rotten and weathered pedestal was reinforced. This monument is well preserved thousand year old Ziziphus jujuba tree the oldest one in China -- more than 2000 years old Ziziphus jujuba tree. the height of the tree is 9.8m and the stem girth is 1.66M. The crown of the tree looks like a dragon. It is said that the tree is about 2000 years old and has been growing vigorously. The fruit is divided into four types: long, round, flat and square. The fruit tastes sour, sweet, bitter and spicy.