Shashi: Jiangjin in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, also known as Summer Harvest, was the outer harbor of Ying, the capital of Chu State. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Shatou City, or Shashi for short, which is still in use today.

Shashi is located in the south-central part of Hubei Province, in the west of Jianghan Plain, and on the north bank of Jingjiang reach in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Shashi has a long history, with a human history of more than 3,000 years. Shashi has been a "famous town of three Chu" since ancient times. It was originally a riverside ferry that was alluvial from the Yangtze River. It was called Tianjin in ancient times, also known as summer harvest. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was renamed Jiangjin, which was the outer harbor of the capital of Chu. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Shatou City, or Shashi for short. 1895, treaty of shimonoseki between China and Japan turned Shashi into a trading port, which was one of the earliest four inland river ports in China. 1On June 8, 1940, the Japanese invaders occupied Shashi.1On August 5, 1945, after Japan surrendered, the fourth administrative office of the Kuomintang Hubei Provincial Government was located in Shashi, and the urban area was divided into three towns: nationality, civil rights and people's livelihood. 1949 July 15, Shashi was liberated and designated as a provincial city. 1956 changed to Jingzhou city. 1979 became the provincial capital city again. 1994 10, Jingzhou area and Shashi city were abolished, and Shi Jing city was established, later renamed Jingzhou city. Taking the former Shashi municipal district as the main body, Shashi District was established after proper adjustment of the division, becoming the central city of Jingzhou.

There are five sub-district offices in Shashi City, including Zhongshan Road, Jiefang Road, Shengli Street, Chongwen Street and Chaoyang Road, and there are 105 community neighborhood committees. There are two townships in rural areas, namely, new residence and official residence, and three towns, namely, Changgong, Guanyindang and Cenhe, which have jurisdiction over 4 community neighborhood committees, 80 villagers' committees and 573 villagers' groups. Trusteeship province livestock breeding farm. By the end of 2003, the total population of the region was 558,600, the urban population was 449,600, the urbanization rate was 80.48%, and the population density was 1.225 people/km2. After the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up more than 20 years ago, Shashi has become a famous star city at home and abroad with its rapid economic development, numerous famous products, beautiful urban construction and the beauty of civilization and hygiene. In 2003, the area's GDP was 7.728 billion yuan. Among them, the added value of primary industry is 655 million yuan, the added value of secondary industry is 4.020 billion yuan, the added value of tertiary industry is 3.053 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP is 65.438+0.29 million yuan. In 2003, the average wage of employees in regional units was 6893 yuan. The per capita disposable income of urban residents is 7093 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers is 3328 yuan.

The widest distance from north to south is 26 kilometers, and the longest distance from east to west is 29.7 kilometers, with a total area of 492 square kilometers and an urban area of 37.77 square kilometers. Shashi is an ancient beach of the Yangtze River, with flat terrain and high groundwater level, with an altitude of 30 to 36 meters. Shashi is in a river network: it faces Changhu Lake in the north, with the highest water level of 33.29 meters; South of the Yangtze River, the highest water level is 45.22 meters. Shashi is a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone with four distinct seasons, abundant heat and rainfall. The annual average temperature is 16. 1℃, the annual frost-free period is 230-270 days, the annual rainfall is generally between 958- 1325 mm, and the average relative humidity is 80%. Shashi has always been a famous industrial and commercial city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is the economic link between Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and Henan. Relying on Jianghan Plain, she has a vast economic hinterland, a wide market radiation, a large amount of goods distribution, a smooth flow of things and a large number of merchants. Shashi is located in the main axis center of Hubei's "Great Triangle" (Wuhan, Huangshi-Xiangfan, Shiyan-Yichang and Three Gorges). In the strategic pattern of China's opening up to the outside world, it has geographical advantages to promote the development of the Yangtze River, the central and western regions and the west from coastal and border areas.

Shashi Port, one of the top ten new ports in the Yangtze River Economic Development Zone, is a national second-class trade port, which can berth 5,000-ton passenger and cargo ships with an annual throughput of more than 8 million tons. 207 national highway runs through the north and south, and Shanghai-Chengdu Expressway and National Highway 3 18 run through the east and west. The expressways from Xiangfan, Hubei Province to Shashi and from Shashi, Hunan Province to Changde are under construction, and the Jingzhou Yangtze River Bridge has been completed and opened to traffic. Beijing-Sha Railway and Liu Jiao Railway are integrated, and the transportation of goods reaches all parts of the country. Shashi is the second largest information hub node and regional information center in Hubei Province, with a complete modern communication system. The national "information superhighway" meets and passes through the provincial secondary communication trunk lines. IP network is the only tertiary contact point in Hubei Province at present, which can directly reach all parts of the world. The city streets are spacious and lined with trees and flowers. Urban water supply and drainage, power supply and gas supply, landscaping, education and health, culture and entertainment, public services and other infrastructure and public facilities are complete.

As an old textile industrial base in Hubei Province, Shashi has a solid industrial base and a broad product market. Vitality 28 washing powder, Salonda pesticide, Jingjiang thermos bottle, Yuanyang brand sheets, radial drilling machine and other national famous brand products are well-known in domestic and foreign markets. There are more than 200 industrial enterprises above the township level in the whole region, and an industrial system with five leading industries as the main body has initially formed. Urban industry and township enterprises compete to develop and become an important pillar of regional economy.

Give full play to the advantages of regional resources, vigorously implement the strategy of "prospering the area through industry and living a commercial area", and persist in promoting the privatization of regional economy through the construction of an open market system, initially forming a new pattern of modern commerce and trade with big market, big circulation and big business. The private economy with individual and private economy as the main body has developed rapidly. There are more than 20,000 commercial outlets, including chain stores 1.200, employing 6,543.8 million people, and the retail sales of consumer goods in the whole society reached 4.629 billion yuan. By the end of 2003, there were 23,800 registered individual industrial and commercial households with 73,500 employees and 22,900 registered private enterprises 1489 employees, achieving an output value turnover of 7.93 billion yuan. There are 4 1 professional markets.

Mass Art Museum 1, 2 libraries, Museum 1, Culture Palace 1, Youth Palace 1, 6 parks, 4 Xinhua Bookstore, 2 theaters, 2 TV stations, cable TV stations 1, radio stations 1. Sports events have won many awards in various competitions at home and abroad. Most stadiums and gymnasiums are open to the masses, and mass sports activities featuring leisure and fitness are widely carried out. There are all kinds of schools at all levels 1, 3 1, with 79,500 students. The children's enrollment rate, the first-grade preschool education popularization rate, the primary school enrollment rate, the consolidation rate, the graduation rate and the popularization rate all reached 1.000%. The results of the senior high school entrance examination ranked first in the city for ten consecutive years, and the results of the college entrance examination hit record highs. The whole region has formed a medical and health service system based on general hospitals and supplemented by community health. In 2003, there were 5 general hospitals and 2/kloc-0 community health service institutions in the whole region, covering all streets and towns in the whole region.

Shashi has accumulated a regional culture with a long history and modern civilization. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shashi was the capital of Chu. The existing Buddhist shrines in Yuan Dynasty, zhanghua Temple in Ming Dynasty and Wanshou Pagoda are typical records of Shashi's historical civilization. Zhou Liang Yuqiao Cultural Site, Jigongshan Cultural Site and Jiangdu Palace, where the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan once lived, reflect the historical and cultural development of Shashi. There are a large number of cultural landscapes in the urban area, such as Jingzhou Ancient City, a famous historical and cultural city, Jinan City, which has been the capital of Chu for 20 times and lasted for 465,438+065,438+0 years, Jingzhou Museum, which ranks among the top ten museums in China, the mysterious view of Tang Dynasty architecture, Kaiyuan view and Taihui view. In the suburbs, there are the Tianxingguan Tomb being excavated and the Phoenix Mountain Resort being developed. At present, the tourism industry, which integrates tourism in Shashi and Jingzhou, and links tourism from Shashi to Zhangjiajie, Three Gorges and Qingjiang, is in the ascendant, showing a broad prospect of prospering holiday tourism economy and improving tourism cultural taste.

Treaty of shimonoseki (also known as the Treaty of the Spring Sailing Tower) consists of 1 1 paragraph, with "separate agreement" and "special terms for negotiation". The fourth main content of the treaty is to open Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou and Hangzhou as trading ports.

Edit this local specialty of Shashi.

Shashi sweet garlic

Shashi sweet garlic, also known as Jingzhou sweet garlic, is round and has no petals, and one is a whole. It tastes mellow and sweet, and it is a good appetizer. It is rich in allicin, protein, multivitamins and trace nitric acid. Allicin can inhibit and kill typhoid Bacillus, staphylococcus and pyogenic Bacillus, and nitrogen acid can stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen.

Jingzhou is a land of plenty, and Jingzhou values fish. No fish is a feast, no fish is a gift.

Jingzhou people have a long history of eating fish, and there was "rice soup fish" in the Han Dynasty. Fish has magically turned into various delicacies in the hands of Jingzhou people. "Redmi boiled white fish" was the life of the ancients. Now, it is because of the fish that the dishes are set and the fish are cut. Those fish dishes with beautiful names, colors and tastes are breathtaking.

There are four famous dishes in Jingzhou, one of which is "Dragon and Phoenix Match". It is a traditional famous dish in Jingzhou area, which is made from Monopterus albus and chicks by boiling, marinating, frying and sliding.

Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei's daughter-in-law turned fake into true. He returned to Jingzhou with his wife from Soochow, and Zhuge Liang hosted a banquet for them. The first course at the banquet is the "Dragon and Phoenix Match" specially made by the Jingzhou chef. I saw a big eel in the shape of a dragon, coiled and scaly, standing on Xiangyun, with its head held high and its mouth open, and its horns soaring; The chicken is shaped like a phoenix standing next to the dragon, dancing with its neck spreading its wings, gorgeous feathers and red crown. When Liu Bei saw it, he was overjoyed and full of praise. From then on, the dish "Dragon and Phoenix Match" became famous.

The second is "fish cake balls". Fish cake balls are a unique flavor in Jingzhou area, which is known as eating fish instead of eating fish. Fish contains meat flavor, which is tender and smooth, and melts in the mouth.

Legend has it that the making of fish cakes originated in Chu State, and there is a hotel in Jinan, the capital of Chu State, which specializes in making all kinds of fish dishes to accompany wine. One summer, the shopkeeper bought more fish, but business was slow that day and there were many fish in the evening. Seeing that the fish was going to rot, the shopkeeper used his quick wits to simply remove all the fishbones, cut the fish into pieces, add some eggs, add some bean flour, pour some white wine to remove the fishy smell, then make a cake and steam it in a steamer. The next day, the fish cake was cut into pieces, steamed in a bowl, poured with seasoning and sold on the table. It turned out to be very popular. Later, the fish cakes became more and more refined. People make cakes with fish and fat, and then make meatballs with pork and yam. Fish cakes are placed at the bottom of the meatballs, and finally the belly slices and the waist slices are fried and covered, and many dishes share a bowl, commonly known as "miscellaneous meatballs".

The third kind is "Lapi eel". There is a "Juzhen Garden" restaurant in Jingzhou. The "eel" in Juzhen Garden is a traditional dish, and the eel is a good food therapy. Famous doctors don't record eel as the top grade, saying that it has the effect of nourishing five internal organs and treating deficiency.

The fourth kind is "winter melon turtle skirt soup", which is made by stewing fat male turtle skirt and tender winter melon with chicken soup and seasoning. According to the Records of Jiangling County, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Renzong summoned Zhang Jing, a native of Jingzhou, and asked him what was delicious in Jiangling. Zhang Jing replied, "New millet cooks caviar rice, while tender melon cooks turtle soup.". It can be seen that "winter melon turtle skirt soup" was famous in the Song Dynasty.