Tuokou Town Tuokou Memorabilia

Neolithic Age: Archaeological findings prove that people have lived here.

Langxi County was established in the eighth year of Tang Zhenguan (634), and the county was governed by langxi Village in the western suburb of Tuokou. In the third year (1080), Tuokou Village was established, belonging to Yuanzhou, and the name "Tuokou" is still in use today.

Yongle period of Ming Dynasty (1403-1424): The imperial court moved the capital to Beijing, built the Forbidden City, and requisitioned a large amount of timber from the southwest. Tuokou became the first transit station on the Yuanjiang River, forming the famous "Ancient Wood Merchants Road".

In the first year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1662), tung oil was planted in the upper reaches of Yuanjiang River to extract oil, and oilwood merchants from Guangdong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces came to invest. Tung oil became the pillar industry of Tuokou, which gave birth to "the bud of inland capitalism".

In the fifteenth year of the Republic of China (1926), the trade of Tuokou was prosperous, and all walks of life gathered in Tuokou, grabbing docks, building workshops, opening shops and repairing houses, and all walks of life flourished for a while, forming a prosperous situation of nine streets and eighteen lanes.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China (1949), railways and highways were gradually unblocked, and Yuanjiang waterway declined. In the 1970s, the country carried out the "third line" construction, and a large number of factories were moved to Hunan and Guizhou, making Huaihua a "city dragged by trains".

In 2005, Tuokou Hydropower Station started construction 3 kilometers downstream, and Tuokou Town and Sanli Village on the north bank of Yuanjiang River, as well as Xintian, Xintang, Wangjiaao, Tongzhou, Yang Jing, Liu Yang and Luo Yan 12 administrative villages were all included in the reservoir area.

20 10: Resettlement in reservoir area started. The reservoir flooded 46,504 people in hongjiang city, Huitong, Zhijiang and Tianzhu counties of Hunan Province, of which 24,000 people in Tuokou Basin needed to rebuild their homes.

At the end of February, 20 14, Tuokou Dam was closed to store water, and 1380 Tuokou ancient town died and sank to the bottom of the water.

20 14 August: Tuokou Town, hongjiang city was listed as a national key town.