The history of scouring tea

Taocha was originally named Taojiacha. In 2004, the "Rebuilding the Temple Monument of Hod Xing Jun" unearthed in the village recorded: "... Taojiacha old palace, and its monument was dry and prosperous ... almost tilted ... Peng Yinglun wrote an article, and Peng Ying, a tribute student, wrote a book and became Tao Jingxian." The monument was badly damaged and most of the words were illegible. There are dozens of surnames in Taocha Village, such as Tao, Zheng, Zhang, Wang, Li, Zhao, Xiong, Qu, Shen, Liu, Zhai, Dai, Zhou, Chen and Du, and most of them are relocated households.

1952, after Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, inspected the Yellow River and put forward the idea of "South-to-North Water Transfer", Taocha became the first stop of the diversion canal after the exploration and investigation by experts and scholars. 1969 65438+1On October 26th, the first project of Taocha Canal started in Shipangang, Taocha Village. Hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged people in Dengxian took turns to go into battle. It lasted for five years, with death 1 person and disability of 2880 people. Finally, a large canal with a depth of 49 meters, a width of 470 meters and a length of 10 kilometers and a headgate with a height of 6.7 meters, a width of 100 meters and a height of 140 meters were built.

Taocha Village originally belonged to Jiuchong Commune, Deng County, Henan Province. With the initial completion of the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project in the early 1970s, Danjiangkou Reservoir flooded a large area of land in Xichuan. In February, 56 brigades and 573 production teams of Jiuzhong Commune and Houpo Commune in Deng County were placed under Xichuan County, and Taocha, as a village of Jiuchong Commune, was naturally placed under Xichuan's jurisdiction.