Shanggao county in the east, Yuanzhou District in the south, Tonggu County in the northwest, Yifeng County in the northeast and Liuyang City in the west.
The county is 6 1 km long from east to west and 52 km wide from north to south, with a total area of 17 19. 16 square kilometers.
At present, it has jurisdiction over 7 towns of Huang Mao, Zhuzhou, Tanbu, Shuangqiao, Samsung, Luocheng and Gaocun, and 9 towns and recreation streets, administrative villages 18 1, administrative villages/in Goose Peak, Gaocheng, Xing Chi, Baishui, Yuan Xian, Lingdong, Bailiang and Jiaohu.
There are Han, Zhuang, Manchu, Yao, Bai, Hui, Miao, Mongolia and other ethnic groups 12, with a total population of nearly 480,000.
A long history
It has a long history of thousands of years. It was inhabited by human beings more than 3,000 years ago, and Jianxian County has a history of 1700 years.
During the period of Sun Wu and Huang Wu (AD 222-228), the county was called Yang Le County, and Luocheng (now Luocheng Town) was the county.
In the first year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (280), it was changed to Kangle County.
In the fifth year of Tang Wude (622), Yang Le County was restored, and the county administration was moved from Luocheng to Longshan (now the seat of the county public security bureau).
In the first year of Shunyi, Yang Wu (92 1) chose Wanzai as the county name.
The name of the county was changed many times before and after, and it didn't stabilize until the first year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong (1 13 1) until now.
Colorful culture
It has a long history and accumulated a rich and lasting culture.
Nuo dance is one of the oldest and most primitive art forms.
Now it is known as "the living fossil in the history of dance".
Nuo dance originated in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (892-937 AD) and has a history of 1000 years.
Nowadays, Wanzai Nuo Dance has attracted the attention of international friends. In June, 2005, at the Art Week of Jiangxi International Nuo Culture Festival in China, Wanzai Nuo Dance won the Outstanding Performance Award of Folk Art Performance (the highest award), the Gold Award of Jiangxi Nuo Culture Exhibition (the only one) and the Silver Award of Chinese and foreign Nuo Culture Exhibition.
In addition, there are lanterns, dragon lanterns, pavilion elevators, lighting and so on.
Thousands of years of history and culture are also reflected in the human landscape. There are many ancient pagodas, ancient bridges, ancient tombs, ancient temples and ancient buildings, such as the Town God Temple, the Civilization Tower, the Recreation Bridge (now the Tianqiao) and the Zhoujia Mansion.
Outstanding talents
This ancient city has existed for thousands of years. It was once the ancestor of the school of landscape poetry in the history of China literature and the fief of Xie Lingyun, the marquis of Jin Dynasty.
Its treasures and outstanding people are well known. Yuan Zhou's records contain: "Ming Xiu, a thousand-year-old landscape, was called Tusi in ancient times".
Huang Tingjian, a great poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote in Preface to the Taoist Academy: "A land of a thousand years is rich in products and numerous workshops in the city. Nowadays, rural talents are down and out, and gradually emerge, so the branch names are more prosperous. " According to old books, from the Southern Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, there were 42 scholars in Wanzai, including 3 1 1, and 23 1 for officials with more than seven grades.
Famous Prime Minister of Southern Tang Dynasty, Song; Writers Xu Xuan and Xu Kai in the Five Dynasties and the Early Song Dynasty; Xin Yicong, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, once served as assistant minister of official department, industrial department and ritual department; Li Rongbi, known as a "child prodigy", is good at geography, and his painstaking investigation and systematic arrangement of mountains and rivers have contributed greatly.
After the founding of New China, famous female composer Xin Huguang, great lyricist and famous psychologist Guo Yicen emerged, as well as Chinese American Zhang, female senior engineer Xie Shuilin of Ford Motor Company of the United States, and the prince of high and solid waste recycling who won the Guinness Book of World Records and was hailed as "the first person in the world".
Due to the baptism of war, Du Ping, Wang Zonghuai and Zhang Yixiang, the generals of the Republic, were born in Wanzai.
They are the pride of thousands of people.
Their achievements will go down in history forever and shine in the long river of history.
Beautiful mountains and rivers, rich tourism resources, complete colors of "red", "green" and "ancient", unique features of mountains, waters and caves, flourishing organic agriculture, bringing out the best in each other's natural landscape and human landscape, and integrating historical culture with modern culture, make it an ideal resort for tourism and leisure.
Thousands of years of beautiful scenery and rich green resources.
Old Eight Ancient Views, such as Goose Peak Green, Snow Ji in Tang and Zhou Dynasties, Purple Covered Clouds, Ring of Pen Shelves, Stalagmites Flying in the Air, Woodman's Song in Xiaoling, Night Crossing in Longjiang and Sunset in Kunshan, etc.
At present, there are ten scenic spots (spots) in Jiangxi, such as Bamboo Cave, the only giant mountain reclining Buddha with a length of more than 4,000 meters in China, 30 provincial natural scenery protection zones, Kowloon provincial forest park and organic agriculture demonstration park, with a total length of 3,985 meters.
Wanzai is a thousand-year-old city with rich historical and cultural accumulation. It is known as Nuo Dance, a living fossil in the history of dance, and the Town God Temple built in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370), the originator of landscape poetry in the history of China literature? -Xie Lingyun's Tomb, the civilized ancient pagoda built in the 17th year of Qing Qianlong (1752), Zhoujiadawu, an ancient Han residence with a history of nearly 200 years, and many other cultural landscapes.
Wanzai is an old revolutionary base area. During the Second Revolutionary Civil War, the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, such as Zhu, Peng,,, and Wang Shoudao, led the Red War in urban and rural areas.
1April 1932 to1June 1934, the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial Soviet * * * were stationed in Wanzai "Xiao Yuan" (now Yuan Xian Township) for two years, and Wanzai once became the political, military and cultural center of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Region, sometimes called "Little Moscow".
In June 2004, 5438+1October 265438+1October, the former sites of provincial organs such as Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Soviet Union were rated as "Top Ten Red Tourist Attractions Favored by Jiangxi People".
Nowadays, "red tourism", "antique tourism" and "green tourism" are in the ascendant.
Wanzai is rich in resources and products, and is known as "Silver Wanzai".
The mountainous area of the county is 1, 7 1, 000 mu, and the forest coverage rate is 63. 1%. There are more than 50 kinds of precious tree species such as Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Ginkgo biloba and Dictyophora dictyophora.
There are 10 rivers in the county, with a total hydropower reserve of 64,000 kilowatts.
The fertile paddy field10.8 million mu in the county, and the usable grassland area is 336,000 mu.
Among the underground resources, the discovered mineral resources with mining value mainly include coal, marble, kaolin (also known as porcelain clay), granite, gold, copper, iron, tungsten, sulfur, timely, mineral water, river sand and red soil. , especially limestone and porcelain clay.
Wanzai is a famous hometown of fireworks and lilies at home and abroad. "Three specialties" (fireworks, summer cloth and home-made paper) and "three famous products" (lily, pepper and Sanhuang chicken) have long enjoyed a good reputation.
In recent years, the county has made great efforts to develop organic agriculture with the concept of "establishing the county ecologically and enriching the people organically". Since the establishment of 1999 Jiaohu Organic Agriculture and Organic Food Demonstration Park, it has gone through nine years of hard exploration.
Up to now, there are six organic agricultural production towns in the county, with a total certified area of 210.9 million mu, which has been designated as one of the "four organic food production bases in China" by the State Environmental Protection Administration.
Twenty-nine varieties, including organic rice, peony bark, lily, jiaoban potato, radish, chives, strawberries, edamame, bamboo shoots and jujube, have passed BCS or ECOCERT organic certification, and more than one series of 100 products have obtained passes to enter the international market, and the products are sold to Europe, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.
There are 6 leading organic food processing enterprises in the county, and the annual sales income of products exceeds 200 million yuan.