Hekou Town is located in the north of Qianshan County, bordering Ehu Town in the east, facing Xintan Township across the river in the north, hills in the south and alluvial plains in the rest, covering an area of 68 square kilometers. Administer 10 village, 8 neighborhood committees, 1 tea plantation, with a population of 57,000, including agricultural population180,000, with total financial revenue. Historically, it was once known as the four famous towns in Jiangxi together with Jingdezhen, Zhangshu Town and wucheng town.
First, the ancient street in Hekou is well preserved and exudes the charm of the ancient town. Ancient streets in Ming and Qing dynasties, the letter from east to west.
Hekou Town is called "Nine Alleys and Thirteen Streets"
Jiang Nanan architecture is divided into one fortress, two castles and three castles, with a length of about 2.5 kilometers and a width of about 6 meters. The road is paved with long strips of green and granite, which are covered with ruts. There are many old shops on both sides of the street, most of which maintain the architectural characteristics of the Ming and Qing dynasties;
Second, save many celebrity relics. Hong Fei's tomb, one of the "two prime ministers across the river", is located in Chaijiabu Village, Hekou Town. The city has a magnificent momentum. There is a stone tablet square in front of the door, lined with stone figures, stone horses, stone lions, stone elephants, stone sheep, stone pigs and so on. , and neutral tombstone; The stone statue of Xin Qiji, a famous anti-Jin general and great poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, stands tall and straight in the center of the county square for future generations to pay tribute to.
Third, the construction of industrial parks is quite spectacular. The park is next to Weikou Village in Hekou Town, and there are many factories on both sides. More than 20 enterprises have settled in the park, and investment promotion is in full swing.
The First Ancient Street in Jiangxi —— Hekou Ancient Street
Jingdezhen, Zhangshu, Wucheng and Yanshan Estuary are known as the four famous towns in Jiangxi in history. Today, among the four famous towns, Hekou Town is the only well-preserved ancient street in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is called the first ancient street in Jiangxi by provincial and municipal cultural relics experts.
Hekou wharf
Downstream from the estuary of Xinjiang, you can reach Poyang Lake and enter the Yangtze River through the exit of Poyang Lake. From Poyang Lake back to Ganjiang River to Dayu, the bigger Yuling entered Beijiang River and arrived in Guangzhou. From the estuary along the Xinjiang River to Yushan, the land can reach Changshan in Zhejiang and enter the Qiantang River system. This waterway connects Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu and Guangdong, and it is one of the water transport centers of the southern provinces. Therefore, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the estuary was called the "eight-province wharf".
Hekou Town, Yanshan County
The rise of Hekou Town was around the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the book cited by Wanli in the Ming Dynasty stated that it was because the river was connected that it reached the river and gathered the wealth of the world. ..... Ancient estuaries were rich in water and merchants, and they hid traitors in parallel, and there were counties to discuss. Fei Ming Yuan Lu wrote in Cai Chao Ting Ji: At the mouth of the sea, there were only two or three Yu families at first. Today, they have seen the world for more than 70 years, but hundreds of people regard it as Chengdu. ..... acrobatic skills, covering the period when ships, cars and commodities flourished. In the early Qing Dynasty, with the social stability and economic development, the estuary entered a new period of prosperity. In its heyday, Kanggan was known as "an inexhaustible Hankou and an inexhaustible estuary". Hekou is a distribution center for paper, tea, cloth, medicinal materials, porcelain and other commodities. "Local Records of Lead Mountain" said: The merchants of lead university students trade paper and tea, while the second-class merchants trade grain, and there are very few small businesses. ..... As far as imported goods are concerned, lead does not produce cotton, and Bahe cloth, provincial cloth and cotton are the first commodities, so the commercial cost is extremely huge. Lead is sold in four areas at a time, not less than 300 thousand, and not less than 2 million in the upper reaches of the estuary. Grocery is the second largest, shipped from Jiujiang, Shanghai. Grain is the third largest, Anren, Dongxiang, Yiyang and Guixi are adjacent to lead, and all four counties are rice-producing areas, and rice merchants transport them to the estuary.