The history of Jundian Town

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a shop at the mouth of Panyu River in the east of the area called Xiadianzi. The western court set up a post station, which was often stationed in Malaysia, so it was called the military horse shop. Due to the passage of time and the development of business, East and West Streets are gradually connected. In 29 years, it was merged into a district-administered town, collectively known as a military town.

By the Tang Dynasty, it was already the hub of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it was the only place for the imperial court to deliver documents, so there appeared small restaurants and inns for messengers and officials who delivered documents to stay, change horses and board.

During the late Tang Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty (907- 1340), the commerce in this area developed slowly, and the rich agricultural and sideline products resources were not developed and utilized. People still live a self-sufficient life, and agricultural rich products and handicraft products are mostly exchanged here in the form of barter, but there is little management.

After Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1368- 1398), a large number of immigrants moved in from Shaanxi and other places. At that time, the population was prosperous, agricultural resources were initially developed, and handicrafts were initially developed. As a result, business contacts with other places became more frequent, foreign businessmen began to buy local products, and a few wealthy local families began to deal in salt, iron and local groceries. Handicrafts are traded here in the form of money and barter. Due to the growth of population and the development of industry and commerce, two markets, Junmapu and Xiadianzi, have initially formed here.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the town was basically shop-in-shop, shop-in-shop, business-to-business, and stall-to-stall. Apart from pure businessmen with a lot of capital, many of them are semi-farmers and semi-businessmen. Many large businessmen also manage land. Other small traders are mostly small-scale craftsmen, doing business with farmers in the four townships, coming at leisure and going at busy times. Some of them bake buns in the street and put them in pairs. There are slaughter shops, cake shops, tofu shops, yellow taverns, workshops and weaving shops engaged in small-scale industries, dyeing shops, mills, oil mills, firecracker shops, gold and silver jewelry shops, blacksmiths and so on. There are more than a dozen of these businesses, ranging from two to three. Xixiang in this county includes the current military stores, Hualong, Gu Men, Shangkan and Jiujian. There are a large number of restaurants, pharmacies, shops, pubs and snacks here. All the shops have business names based on businessmen's surnames. Most of their business names are about good luck. At this time, there are more than 60 firms, the largest of which is Wu Futai, whose boss is Wu Quanxin, mainly engaged in salt, local products, groceries, Chinese medicine and so on.

The business in this town can be divided into four major industries: groceries, Chinese medicine, catering services and economic dentistry. Grocery includes: He Yongqing, Hu Tongsheng, Luo Dacheng, Deng Changtai, Zhang Zhengshun, Shuang Xingmao, etc. Traditional Chinese Medicine: Tailaixing, Aishengtang, Yang Yongxing, etc. Catering services include: Tan, He Yongchang, Xu, How.

During this period, there was an endless stream of pedestrians in the town. Four towns and villages came here to sell agricultural and sideline products such as grain, cotton, oil, melons, fruits and vegetables, as well as farmers and small handicraft workers who could not sell them out. Street vendors, common foreign vendors are: salt customers, yellow table customers, Zhushan, Zhuxi, Xunxian, Yuncheng and other places with tung oil.

From the tenth year of the Republic of China to the eve of liberation, natural and man-made disasters, floods in dry fields, epidemics, repeated military disasters and bandits, and the people were in dire straits. After that, Jundian Town was gradually left out in the cold, and by the time of the Anti-Japanese War, the mountainous area had become the rear area. With the prosperity of the county, its prosperity has recovered, but it is not as prosperous as in the early years of the Republic of China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang sought civil war, the currency depreciated and prices fell.

After the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, the economy of Jundian Town has developed greatly. However, there are no folk businessmen who spontaneously use the March 3 culture to set up an opera economy. Jundian Town is now sparsely populated, and some vegetables have to be sent from the county. The average price of vegetables is more expensive than that of the county.