The Historical Evolution of Shangdang Town

The origin of Shangdang place names, according to legend, Shangdang County in Shanxi moved south to avoid war and set up the administrative office of Huaqiao County, hence the name Shangdang. In the Song Dynasty, some businessmen, officials and gentry admired Shangdang's countryside, which was surrounded by mountains and rivers and had beautiful scenery. They came to settle down one after another, and Shangdang gradually rose. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Tangut was set up, and 1934 changed the town.

It is said that the traffic accessible to Shangdang originated from the painstaking practice of a Taoist priest. Before the Tang and Song Dynasties, the nearby Maoshan Mountain had become a famous Taoist holy place, and all the good men and women in various places "entered the mountain to make pilgrimages" through Shangdang. At that time, the road was rugged, so a Taoist vowed to build roads to benefit the people. After many years, he finally built a stone road from the top of the mountain in the north to Maoshan in the south, and first formed a north-south street running through the party. Later, it extended from the middle end to form a cross-shaped street, which intersected east, west, north and south. Subsequently, six traffic arteries in history were formed, namely, Jinxiang Stone Road, Lu Heng Road, Xinbao Road, Qianzhen Road, Yao Zhen Road and Gudayou Road.

Popular religious activities in Shangdang history are mainly Buddhism and Taoism, as well as Islam and Christianity. Every village in the town has temples, temples and temples, ranging from three to more than one hundred. For example, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Rudong Greedy had 170 temples, which were very magnificent. There are 50 Laipeng Jinshan Temple and Hengshan Sailin Temple in Laicun 1945.

Legend has it that Dongkan Village was originally named Dongtan Village. In ancient times, there was a scholar named Wu in Dongtan village who went to Beijing to be an official and was re-elected as prime minister of the three dynasties. Later, he returned home dressed in gold, and a fellow villager named Liu succeeded him. However, after Liu took office, he took bribes and perverted the law. Wu repeatedly advised Liu to turn over a new leaf, be an honest official and not humiliate his hometown. But Liu went his own way, so Wu and others changed Dongtan to "East greed" out of indignation to warn future generations.

Shangdang folk art is also very distinctive. During the Song Dynasty, an immigrant from the Tang family in Yunnan moved to Shangdang, bringing folk crafts such as flower picking, embroidery and paper cutting, which are popular among Shangdang women.

Peach blossom and embroidery works are natural, quaint, gorgeous and lovely, which have a certain influence at home and abroad through the propaganda of People's Pictorial and central, provincial and municipal TV stations. 1998 Shangdang Town was awarded the title of "Hometown of Folk Art" by the province. In September 2000, Shangdang people picked flowers. Embroidery works were selected to attend the 6th China Arts Festival in Nanjing, which became a wonderful flower in the countryside and became famous in one fell swoop.

Shangdang people are used to the self-sufficient rural natural economy, and only in the Qing Dynasty did there exist some small private workshops, such as blacksmiths, shoe stores and mills.

19 15 years, when the national government built a small road sluice in a village in the form of "work for relief", a bronze coin of Tianfu in the Northern Song Dynasty was unearthed, so it was ordered to be interpreted as "heaven is idle". 1937, the Zhenjiang county government held a groundbreaking ceremony for Zhenbao Road in Shangdang, which was completed and opened to traffic at the end of the year, becoming a great event in Nanxiang at that time. In the same year, Gan Tang, a national capitalist, found a coal mine in Dali Mountain and founded Jianhua Coal Mine Company. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, coal mines were occupied by Japanese invaders, and rich coal resources were plundered. This is a coal mine developed earlier in Jiangnan area.

1April, 949, Shangdang ancient town, which suffered a lot, was liberated and the people became masters of their own affairs. During the Great Leap Forward, Shangdang people built Tangling Reservoir with an area of 25 square kilometers under the leadership of the Party, which is the largest reservoir in Dantu and has made great contributions to Nanxiang Water Conservancy for decades. In the 1960s, Shangdang, Xiaolishan, Funiu and Gudong coal mines were successively mined, with an annual output of 300,000 tons, becoming coal bases in southern Jiangsu. 1in March, 986, Shangdang was listed as a developing town in Laomaoshan area by Zhenjiang municipal government, and its industry developed rapidly. From 65438 to 0990, the town's total industrial and agricultural output value exceeded 100 million yuan in Dantu South township, forming an industry mainly composed of electronics, machinery, chemicals and other products. Agriculture has developed rapidly, especially agricultural and sideline products such as tea, fresh fruit, vegetables, livestock and poultry. Among them, the cultivated fine tea "Shushan Cuiluo" green tea has won the silver prize of the National Agricultural Fair and the first prize of "Luyu Cup" in Jiangsu Province, and the market sales situation is very good.

Shangdang education has made great progress under the new situation of reform and opening up. 1965 Shangdang junior high school added a high school class, which was later renamed as "Shangdang Senior High School in Dantu County" and became an institution for single grass students in Dantu South Township. Mr. Zhi Xianzong, a patriotic overseas Chinese, went to Shangdang to seek his roots and recognize his ancestors, and donated millions of yuan to build a modern "Zhi Xianzong Middle School". 200 1, Shangdang town was rated as the standard town of educational modernization by the province.