Because Xixian County is the first ancient county in China. The history of Xixian County is long, summer, Shang Dynasty Yuzhou, 682 BC set up the county so far nearly 3,000 years, is the first time on the Chinese land "county system", and the only one over the generations not to change the "interest" name, not to change the rule of the county.
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I. History of Xixian County
Xixian County belonged to the Yuzhou Prefecture during the Xia and Shang Dynasties, and the Zhou Dynasty began to build the state of Xi Hou with the surname of Gui, with its capital at Qinglong Temple, 6 kilometers southwest of the present-day city of Xixian County.
In 682 B.C., Chu destroyed the rest of the state set up the county, the Qin because of it. Western Han Dynasty was renamed Xinxi County, through the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, the North and South Dynasties all belong to the Ru Nan County (country).
After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, Xinxi County was the capital of Runan County. Eastern Jin Dynasty sixteen countries period, successively for the Houzhao, the former Yan, the former Qin, Eastern Jin, the latter Qin and other regimes, all of which is RuNan County rule.
Southern and Southern Dynasties during the Southern Dynasties Liu Song, Xiao Qi dynasty, is still Ru Nan County. The Northern Wei Dynasty added East Yuzhou. The Southern Dynasties Xiao Liang first set Yuzhou Runan County, and later renamed Huaizhou. The Eastern Wei Dynasty was again for the East Yuzhou Runan County. The Northern Zhou Dynasty was reset to the state of interest, are the state county seat.
Sui-Kaihuang three years (583 years) abolition of Runan County, Daye three years (607) abolition of interest in the state for Runan County. New Xixi County belongs to it.
The Tang Dynasty Wude four years (621 years) to the county to set up the interest of the state, the first year of Zhenguan (627 years) to abolish the interest of the state, the county belongs to the Yuzhou, BaoYing first year (762 years) after the belong to the CaiZhou. It was successively occupied by five dynasties: Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou.
After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xinxi County belonged to Caizhou. The Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty had the Huai River as their boundary, and Xixi County belonged to the Jin Dynasty, which set up Xixi Prefecture in the eighth year of the Taeho era (1208), taking Xixi County as the seat of the Prefecture's administration and moving the present-day county seat, and confronted the Guangzhou Prefecture of the Southern Song Dynasty across the Huai River.
The Yuan Dynasty (Mongolia) Yuan Zhongtong three years (1262) province, four years (1263) reset Xizhizhou; to the Yuan three years (1266) will be the new Xizhixian province into the state. To the Yuan thirty years (1293) belongs to Ru Ningfu.
Ming Hongwu four years (1371) descending interest in the state for the interest of the county, belonging to the middle of the capital Linhaofu (later renamed Fengyangfu). In the seventh year (1374), it belonged to Ru Ning Prefecture Guang Zhou, and since then, until the Republic of China period, Xi County has been subordinate to Guang Zhou.
Qing Dynasty Yongzheng two years (1724) to promote the light state for the state, Xixi County belongs to it. In the second year of the Republic of China (1913), the abolition of the state to set up a road, Guangzhou was changed to Henan Province, the state was renamed Ducheon. In the 17th year of the Republic of China, belongs to the third administrative district (the seat of decorative Sichuan); Republic of China 21st year, for the ninth administrative inspector's office of Henan (in decorative Sichuan).
January 31, 1949, dorchon liberation, set up dorchon area, in May 1949, xixian belong to dorchon area, August 11, 1952 analysis of xixian, dorchon, gushi each set a part of huabin county, in October 1952, xixian with the dorchon area into the xinyang area. June 1998, approved by the state council and the provincial people's government on July 29 official notice, the abolition of xinyang Area, set up prefecture-level Xinyang City. The county of Xixian belongs to the unchanged so far.
Two, Xixian Introduction
Xixian is China's first ancient county. Xixi County has a long history, summer, Shang Dynasty Yuzhou, 682 BC set up nearly 3,000 years ago, is the first time on the land of China to implement the "county system", and the only one over the generations not to change the "interest" name, not to change the rule of the county. Beautiful and virtuous Mrs. Xi, Fu Bo generals Ma Aid, Liu Deng's army of thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains still shines in the sky of history. Lai, white, interest in the three major surnames are originated here, the Central Plains culture, Chu culture in this convergence and integration, the formation of the sea, tolerance of the cultural mind and Yu style Chu rhyme cultural characteristics.
Xi County is a national advanced county in grain production. Xixian County is located in China's north-south climate watershed, is a subtropical to warm temperate transitional climate. The Huaihe River passes through the territory, in Xixian flow length of 75.5 kilometers, the north of the river for the open plains, the south of the river for the verdant hills, producing wheat, rice, cotton, etc., known as "money is hard to buy the slope of Xixian, half of the dry rice and half of the bun," the reputation of the county's total grain output of 2 billion pounds in 2017, the city's only nine consecutive years in the "National Grain Production Advanced County".
Xi County is building China's ecological staple food kitchen. Xixian based on the actual agricultural county, the establishment of a green food leading industries, staple food industrialization work for three consecutive years in the city ranked first. The county industrial agglomeration was identified as the national staple food industrialization demonstration site, built an area of 7 square kilometers, 84 resident enterprises, built and put into production 66, more than 100 million yuan of the project reached 24. 2017, the industrial agglomeration "four" enterprise main business income of 20.47 billion yuan, the main business income of the leading industries accounted for 52.5%, employing more than 30,000 people, and the main business income of the leading industries accounted for 52.5%, the main business income of the leading industries accounted for 52.5%. In addition, the number of employees is more than 30,000, in the province of one-star industrial clusters on the basis of the realization of the expansion and promotion of the grade.
Xi County is focusing on creating a new waterfront city, the ancient city of Qiaolou, the old city of Xiguo, Pu Gongshan Scenic Area, the industrial clusters of the five areas of interactive development of a new pattern. At present, the urban built area of 26.5 square kilometers, the formation of a "seven vertical and eight horizontal and one ring" of the road network framework, built the rest of the State Square, Horse Aid Plaza, the rest of the Lady Cultural Park and other cultural venues, Pu Gongshan Scenic Area, Longhu Park, Forest Park is accelerating, the city is becoming more and more beautiful, and the human environment has improved significantly.
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