Zigong Town, Dongxing County, Sichuan Province

Dongxing town

Dongxing Town, a town under the jurisdiction of Rong County, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, is located in the north of the county, 24 kilometers away from the county.

geographical position

Dongxing town was named Dongxing Township in 1950, changed to commune in 1958, restored to township in 1983 and established in 1995. Located in the north of the county, 24 kilometers away from the county. It covers an area of 58.08 square kilometers and has a population of 4265 (2017). Rongxian Dongxing highway runs through the territory. Jurisdiction zaoziba, gengzi, laojunba, tandongzi, guanyinao, baiyangsi six village committees and dongxingchang community residents committee. Township enterprises have coal, natural gas, limestone, salt, building materials, chemical and other factories and mines. Agricultural production of rice, wheat, corn, potato, and tea, fruit.
Dongxingchang is located in the deep hilly area of the northern border of Rongxian county. It is the confluence of seven streams including baiyanggou, Lannigou, dingnigou, longdonggou, Qiangou and lanmugou. Since then, it has been called "dongchuangou", so it was also called "dongchuangouchang" in the early Qing Dynasty. The nearby "bamboo shoot mountain" is covered with trees from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. It looks like a giant "bamboo shoot" piercing the Cang curve, which is also amazing.

history

In the temple, there are two niches, one meter wide and one meter deep. In addition, there are two inscriptions on the temple built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. A 1.8-meter-high arhat stands on the ground in front of the niche. The pattern of the statue is clear and the lines are smooth, which is typical of the Song Dynasty. This provides important material materials for the study of stone sculpture art in Song Dynasty. In April 2006, the statue of Tianying temple was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Rong County. Because the temple is not managed, there are many cobwebs in the temple, the inscriptions are weathered and hard to distinguish the writing, and the stone carvings are seriously damaged. Two arhat Bodhisattvas were stolen in 2007 and their whereabouts are still unknown.
Group 1, gengzi village, Dongxing town (small name Hujiaba), is the hometown of Hu zizhao, the Minister of arms in the Ming Dynasty. Hu zizhao was born here in the 17th year of Zhizheng reign of the Yuan Dynasty (1357 AD), and was killed in Nanjing in the early Ming Dynasty. More than 50 years later, in the reign of Tianshun, her daughter Hu jinnu was more than 80 years old. She asked the empress of Neigong to bury her father's remains in her hometown. Unfortunately, the grave has been destroyed and nowhere to be found.
There is a ancestral hall called Liujia ancestral hall in group 2 of gengzi village, Dongxing Town, which covers an area of more than 400 square meters and is well preserved.
There are many industrial and mining enterprises in Dongxing Town, including Shunan gas mine, Rongxian natural gas purification plant (the original No.2 desulfurization plant), Dongxing cement plant, Rongxian Gaofeng Coal Industry Co., Ltd., Rongxian Zhonglin Coal Industry Co., Ltd., Rongwei stone powder plant, Zigong Beidou cement company, etc. on August 31, 2019, the people's Government of Sichuan Province approved Zigong City to adjust the administrative divisions of some towns and townships: Molin township was cancelled and its administrative area was put under the jurisdiction of Dongxing Town, and Dongxing Town People's government was stationed at No. 95-1 Dongshun street.