The village of Zhaoniu Town has a good tradition of emphasizing education and educating people. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the village had a school, university, martial arts school, by the imperial examinations to obtain the civil and military officials, Gongsheng, Ziangsheng of more than 80 people; into the Qing Guangxu seven-year version of "Yu County Records" in the various types of people praised more than 20 people; employed by the teacher to set up a museum of lectures to educate people more than a few people. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the abolition of the imperial examinations and the establishment of new schools, the village opened the National Primary School. In the 10th year of the Republic of China (1921), the village organized a girls' school. Republic of 16 years, the village school became a joint school system, responsible for supervising the primary education of more than ten administrative villages such as Shandi and Dongcun. During the War of Resistance against Japan and the War of Liberation, the village set up the Anti-Japanese Democratic School. Although it was difficult to fix the school building and the conditions were extremely hard, the teaching work was never interrupted. After the liberation, the village elementary school according to the temple as the site, after several renovation, up to 45 years. 1989-1995, the village fund-raising in the village north of the temple Ohdong land to build a new school, kindergarten, are equipped with a new type of teaching equipment and equipment, will be the early childhood education, primary education, junior high school education, adult education in one site, with first-class conditions of schooling to become the top of the rural schools in Yangquan City. 1997, the village has 10 kindergarten teachers, full-time primary school teachers. In 1997, the village had 10 kindergarten teachers, 20 full-time elementary school teachers, and 21 junior high school teachers; 200 kindergarten children, 365 primary school students, and 246 junior high school students; in 2005, after the completion of the "withdrawal of schools and points", the village had 13 kindergarten teachers and 27 elementary school teachers; 88 kindergarten children, and 343 primary school students. From 1977, when the national college entrance examination was restored, to 2005, 227 students from the village were admitted to universities and junior colleges. Among them, there is the 1993 city's college entrance examination, the first person in the arts; in 2004, the province's second person in the arts, a doctoral candidate in organic chemistry, master's degree students in various disciplines, 4 people.
Before liberation, there was no specialized medical institution in the village of Altair Town. After the liberation, the village's medical and health care development is very fast. 1956 was set up in the village cooperative clinic, set up in 1958, the village health station, 1969, the implementation of the cooperative medical system, and in 1981 was converted into a village health center. It now has four beds and five full-time doctors, two of whom have the title of attending physician. The health center is equipped with advanced therapeutic equipment such as ultrasound machines, fluoroscopy machines, ultra-short-wave therapy machines and physiotherapy machines. The development of medical and health care plays an important role in the rapid eradication of unhygienic habits, the effective prevention of seasonal and frequent diseases, the development of family planning, the improvement of maternal and child health care, and the persistent adherence to patriotic hygiene, industrial hygiene, living hygiene, environmental hygiene, etc., and the continuous enhancement of the village people's physical fitness.
The village of Altair has been known as a "cultural village" since ancient times. In addition to the good tradition of education and training, the mass cultural activities are extremely active is also an important feature. The village's mass cultural activities, not only a variety of art, a variety of forms of expression, the content of a unique, but also a large number of performing groups, a lack of artistic talent, the activities of sound facilities. There are many works, programs, arts and literature, several times won awards, long lasting. The annual Spring Festival Lantern Festival and cultural performances, mass culture is the most hot. There are many performances and forms have also been repeatedly invited to neighboring villages to perform in support of the popularity. Today, the village has a hall, amphitheater, activity square, cultural activities room, cultural performance team, encrypted cable TV, program-controlled telephone, amplified broadcasting, movie projector, camera and video facilities and so on.
Ming and Qing dynasties, the village of Altair Town built as many as 20 temples, temples, pavilions, bridges and so on. Altair Temple on Altair Hill, South Pine Tree Slope on the Master's Temple, South Cliff cliffs on the rock of the Guanyin Hall, the village east of the water across the river and built the Jade Emperor Pavilion, Regulus Temple mural "Taoye Tuyi", the temple courtyard in the Pavilion, stone tablets and ancient trees, etc., is enough to reflect the village people at that time of diligence, wisdom and qualities and aspirations. The monuments and cultural relics preserved nowadays include Guanyin Temple, Old Master's Temple, Jade Emperor Pavilion, Juniper, Sophora, Porcelain Tripods, etc. There are more than 10 places (pieces). Among them, the Jade Emperor Pavilion (also known as Sanjia Pavilion) in 1987 was included in the district-level cultural relics protection units.