Fengshun County was founded in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong two years (1738). At that time, the two Guangdong Governor Eerda tour Chaozhou County, Haiyang County, Feng Zhengdu Tongjianfu (in today's Fengliang Town), on the table reported to the Ministry of households, should be requested to Feng Zhengdu, and cut Jiaying, Taipo, Jieyang neighboring fields and food accounts, in the Tongjianfu City, the place to open the county. Qianlong three years, permission to analyze the Haiyang Fengzheng all one, two, three map, Jieyang County, Lantian all nine map, ten map, Tai Po County, Qingyuan all white mango society and Jiaying County, Chengxiang County, Wan'an all of the Trail heart, the ring of Qing, Jianqiao, three Fort and so on, such as field and grain households set up a new county. Qin Ding County name Fengshun. County Office in Fengzhengdu Tangtian (now Fengliang Town).
"Fengshun" name, from a long time ago, according to county records: Ming Chongzhen early (1628) has been set up Fengshun camp; and according to Fengliang Dongguan Au stone carvings: Shunzhi nine years of the Qing dynasty (1652), Li people Wu Liuqi set up a "consolidation of the Golden Soup," a stone monument in the A stone seal, there are Fengshun Wu Fu 4 words. After the establishment of the county, began to belong to the governor of Guangdong Province, the Governor of Guangdong Province, Chaozhou Province, Huichao Jia Bingbeidao. After the Xinhai Revolution, belonging to the Guangdong Provincial Government Chao Zhuan Dao. Republic of China twenty-five years (1936) belongs to the Guangdong Provincial Government Fifth Administrative Region Inspectorate. After the liberation of Xingmei Prefecture Commissioner's Office, the county seat from Fengliang moved Tangkeng. 1953 belonged to the Guangdong East Administrative Office. 1956 belonged to the Shantou Specialized Agency. 1958 abolished Fengshun County, the county's eight communes in Tangkeng, eight townships, Fengliang, Pantian into Jieyang County, the big Longhua,? In 1961, Fengshun County was restored to its original form, with the county town still located in Tangkeng Town and belonging to Shantou Prefecture; in 1956, it belonged to Meixian County, and now belongs to Meizhou City.
Geography
Fengshun County is located at longitude 115° 30' -116° 41' East and latitude 23° 36' -24° 13' North. It is located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province, the southern end of Meizhou City, adjacent to Chaozhou in the east, Jieyang in the south, Wuhua and Xingning in the west, and Meixian and Taipu in the north. It is the necessary place for Meizhou City and Gannan and western Fujian to reach the coast of Chaoshan. The county has a total area of 2710 square kilometers.?
Climatic conditions
Fengshun County belongs to the southern subtropical monsoon climate zone, with abundant light, abundant rainfall, pleasant climate and beautiful mountains. The average annual temperature of the county is 21.4°C, the annual sunshine hours are 1938.8 hours, and the annual frost-free period is 322 days. The average rainfall in the county is 1776.1 millimeters.
Administrative divisions
The county has 16 towns and 1 state farm, 263 villagers' committees and 14 residents' committees. The county town is located in Tangkeng Town.
Transportation
The county town is 475 kilometers away from Guangzhou in the west, 111 kilometers away from Meizhou in the north, 78 kilometers away from Shantou in the south and 31 kilometers away from Jieyang Customs. The county has convenient land and water transportation, fast freight and passenger transportation, Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway, Meizhou-Shantou Expressway and National Highway 206 running through the north and south, and there is a train freight station and a passenger station at the south end of the county. Provincial highway 1940 line, 1935 line and Hanjiang River flows across the east and west. The county realizes the village highway, the county town to each town road all realize the cement hard bottom.
Regional Population
The county has a total population of 650,000, of which more than 360 are of She ethnicity and the rest of them are Han Chinese. Residents mainly speak Hakka and Teochew. There are more than 400,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, mainly in Southeast Asian countries, especially in Thailand. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, as well as a famous hometown of hot springs and tourism.
Advantageous Resources
Fengshun County has a favorable geographic location and is rich in natural resources. The main natural resources in the county are:
(1) Hydraulic resources: The rivers in Fengshun County belong to the Han River and Rongjiang River, the river runoff is mainly recharged by precipitation. The county has more precipitation, high relative humidity and less evaporation, forming rich surface water resources. According to the calculation of the relevant departments, the average runoff of the county for many years is 2,735.6 million cubic meters (excluding the transit water of Hanjiang River), the water yield per unit area is 1,017,000 cubic meters per square kilometer, the average water per mu of arable land is 9,326 cubic meters, and the water per capita is 5,049 cubic meters, which is greater than the average of the whole country, Guangdong Province and Meizhou Municipality. Fengshun County is also rich in hydro energy resources, the county's theoretical reserves of hydro energy resources for 205,700 kilowatts, of which 120,000 kilowatts of installed capacity can be developed, an average of 40 kilowatts per square kilometer, per capita ownership of 0.2 kilowatts, are higher than the average level of Guangdong Province (30.2 kilowatts/square kilometer and 0.10 kilowatts/person, respectively)?
(2) geothermal resources: Fengshun County, Guangdong Province is one of the richer geothermal resources in the county, known as "nine soup eighteen". County **** there are 16 hydrothermal activity area, underground hot springs reserves, high water temperature, water quality, flow, medicinal efficacy, natural outcrops, in addition to the application of geothermal power generation and aquaculture, radon rich hot springs are also widely used in tourism, health care, etc., has a high value of the development and utilization of the country's first geothermal test power station was built in the southern end of the county, in 1993 was also identified by the provincial government as a Provincial Hot Spring Tourism Resort.
(3) mineral resources: Fengshun County underground mineral resources are more varieties, mainly: magnetite, hematite, pyrite, tungsten ore, lead-zinc ore, tin ore, molybdenite, copper ore, associated gold, silver, alluvial gold, chlorite, kaolin, ceramic clay, potash feldspar, quartzite, and rare earths and other minerals; and all over the county of granite, the type of more than 20 kinds of black pyroxenite and jadeite red granite There are also more than 20 kinds of granite throughout the county, including black pyrophyllite and emerald red granite, which are high-level architectural and decorative materials with great mining value.
(4) Tourism resources: Fenshun beautiful scenery, many attractions. The main human landscape are provincial hot springs tourism resort, Longjue River rafting, ice mortar wonders, Longgui waterfalls, Jieling Flying Springs, Tonggu Peak to watch the sunrise, Baxiang Mountain style tour, Acacia River eco-tour, Jigong Hall, Taiping Temple, geothermal power generation, hot springs bathing, She ethnic style, Puzai Fire Dragon, Fengliang leaning tower, Puzhi Boat Bridge, Jinri Hot Springs Resort, and the end of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao in the beautiful legend of the Liouhuangwan River, as well as the Qing Dynasty political innovator Ding Richang and the precious historical sites of Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Li Jianzhen and other revolutionary predecessors.
Historical Figures
Wu Liuqi (1607-1665) was a native of Danya in the southern compartment of Fengliang Town, Fengshun County, with the words "Jianbo" (鉴伯), and the name "Geru" (葛如). He read poetry and books at an early age and was widely involved in history and economics. He was addicted to alcohol and gambling, and was a postman after he had squandered all his family's assets. Later, he wandered around Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In Haining, Zhejiang Province, he met the famous scholar and filial piety Lian Zha Yi Juan, who gave him a gift of money and recommended him to join the army. He gathered the countryside courage, dominated the township, suppressed the righteous army, became a local warlord, and was recognized by the Ming court. In 1650, he led his troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and was rewarded by the Kangxi Emperor with the honor of being awarded the title of "Left Governor of the General Army", the title of "Crown Prince Shao Bao", and the title of "Shao Fu" and "Prince Crown Counselor". After his death, he was awarded the title of Shao Shi and Crown Prince, and was given a posthumous title of Shun Ke. He was granted the title of "Shun Ke" (順恪). His tomb in Huliao, Tai Po County, under the Tiger Mountain, the imperial monument, rituals, and sent officials to sacrifice the burial. The rest of the reading, calligraphy. Author of "Zhongxiao Hall Anthology".
Wu Yizhi (1896-1962) name Fusheng, the word Xiqi, Xuexing, Fengshun County, Fengliang Town, Xinpi village people. He graduated from Baoding Army Officers' School, Army University and Berlin University. During the Northern Expeditionary War, he was the commander and detachment leader of the Fourth Army Corps, and the general staff of the Eighth Route Army. On April 1, 1937, he was appointed Major General. On April 1, 1937, he became a major general. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as Chief of Staff of the Ninth War Area, and on July 12, 1939, he became a lieutenant general. He was a member of the Ministry of Education, Director of the Guangzhou Navigation Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation, and Director of the Zhihai Navigation Bureau, and in March 1938 he was elected as a representative of Guangdong in the First National Assembly, and in February 1949 he was appointed as a member of the Guangdong Provincial Government. In February 1949, he became a member of the Guangdong Provincial Government. After going to Taiwan, he served as the convenor of the First Study Group on Two Powers of the Taipei District of the Constitutionalism Seminar Committee of the National Assembly around 1958. He died in Taiwan. He wrote many military works and excellent poems. He was also a poet and writer. He was also the subject of a biography in the new Fenshun County Records.
Cheng Guohan, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, was a native of Lantian Dulutu, Jieyang County (i.e., today's Fengshun), who had resigned from his post and returned to his hometown, where he built the "Lantian Bookstore" at the foot of Feiquanling, gathering students and apprentices for lectures, and constructed the "Rangsheng Pavilion" on the side of the rock, where he could observe the view of the waterfalls. With Zheng Guohan the same list of scholar Zhu Xi, Jiangxi wuyuan people, once served as the secret cabinet compilation, and Zheng close contacts, often travel to Jieyang, abode in the Lantian book village, together with the tour of FeiQuanLing. Inscribed with four words "drop Han Mingquan", carved on the stone wall, and poems: "ladder cloud stone cliffs goat's intestines around, turn gully flying spring jasper slant. All the way to the wind and smoke spring thin, a few sound of chickens and dogs wild home." Over the past 800 years, many sages and scholars have come here to visit the place and leave behind their writings and poems. Jieling Flying Spring Scenic Spot is colorful, such as "Qinhuang Post", "White Crane Immortal God Altar", "Rhinoceros Looking at the Moon" in Niuwen Stream, and Fenghua Pavilion constructed by Thai Fengshun Association, etc., which are enough to make tourists forget to come back and visit. All of them are enough to make tourists forget to come back. 13 kilometers from the county, there is a "Longqui Flying Waterfall" scenic, is the largest waterfall in eastern Guangdong, 46 meters wide, 56 meters difference, its sound like thunder, momentum like rainbow, water mist filled the entire scenic area, surrounded by dense vegetation, beautiful scenery, to visit this place, when it can inhale the vastness of the air.
Ding Richang, late Qing politicians, foreign affairs movement practitioners, was born in 1823 in Tangkeng, Fengshun. Early years because of familiar with foreign affairs and by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and other appreciation of reuse, successive Jiangxi Wanan County, Su Song too Road, Jiangsu Governor, Fujian Governor and other positions. In jiangsu, just three years to deal with the backlog of more than 270,000 cases, had two tours of Taiwan, personally recorded qiu fengjia for the first place in the children's test. He actively advocated and presided over the foreign affairs movement, in 1863, Li Hongzhang appointed him in Shanghai to establish the Bureau of artillery, in 1865 to assist Li Hongzhang founded China's first and largest military industry - Jiangnan Manufacturing Directorate General, as the general manager. In 1865, he assisted Li Hongzhang to establish China's first and largest military industry - Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau, and served as the general manager. He presided over the establishment of China's first telegraph line and advocated the construction of the first railroad of his own design and construction. In foreign affairs, he was able to defend the dignity of the nation against foreign invasion, and initiated the establishment of embassies for the protection of overseas Chinese. He was enthusiastic about new learning and contributed to the dispatch of the first batch of publicly-funded students in China. He understood the people's feelings, generous and sympathetic to the people, y loved by the people, in 1877 when he retired to his hometown, the people of Fujian shouted "stay in the Prime Minister, live the people". Ding Richang is one of the four major modern bibliophiles in China, with a collection of more than 100,000 volumes. There are many works of literature and history, such as "Holding Jing Zhai Bibliography", "Bai Lan Shan Guan Political Book", "Bai Lan Shan Guan Poetry Notes", "Haidao Tu Zhi", and "Fuhu Gongzhi", etc., which are still popular and admired by the future generations. Due to the disease caused by labor, he died in his hometown in 1882 at the age of 59.
Ding Huikang (1868--1909.6.17) was a native of Jinwuwei, Tangkeng Town, Fengshun County, and the son of Ding Richang. When he was young, he lived with his father in Jieyang and was taught by his father to read the books in the family's collection, often composing poems and essays. 20 years old, he went to Beijing to study, and made friends with the celebrity Tan Sitong, etc., who worried about the country and the times, and discussed the strategies. Shum Chunxuan, the Governor of Guangdong, sent him to Japan to study schools, and later organized the affairs of the school in Guangzhou. After resigning from his post, he lived in Beijing and died there in his old age. He died in Beijing. There is a posthumous collection of Ding Zhengjun.
Li Jianzhen (1907.1.14-1992.3.30) is a woman from Dongye Village, Xiaosheng Town, Fengshun County. As a baby, she was sold to the village of Banana Tou Wo in Baixi, Huangjin Town. Engaged in revolutionary activities in her youth. Participated in the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March. Served as Director of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress. He was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee and a member of the Central Advisory Committee. He has published books such as Three Hundred Songs of Li Jianzhen and Memoirs of Li Jianzhen. He was also a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.
Ding Jiajun (1909-1997) was known as the oil giant of Thailand. Guangdong Fengshun County people. Ding for the descendants of the Qing dynasty minister Ding Richang, in 1952, went to Thailand to settle, set up Thai oil trading company limited, Asian oil company and other companies, and was the U.S. bell standard (Bin Sai) lubricants and Seattle Bada oil company products in Thailand and Hong Kong's general agent. 1983 set up lubricating oils and fats and oils blending plant, and became the largest supplier of fats and oils in Thailand. The family fortune is estimated to be about 300 million dollars. He was the Secretary General of the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Vice President of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association. He is a famous overseas Chinese leader, industrialist and philanthropist. Contributed to charity and public welfare as well as Thai-Chinese friendship and cultural education.
Li Guoping (1910-1996), a mathematician and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was born in 1910 in Fengshun County, Meizhou City. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, mathematician, graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy of Sun Yat-sen University in 1933, and became a lecturer of Guangxi University in the same year. 1934, he went to the Imperial University of Tokyo in Japan for further study, and returned to China in 1937 to teach at Sun Yat-sen University, and then sent to work at the Institut Poncalet in Paris, France. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to China and served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Sichuan University, then as a professor in the Department of Mathematics, head of the Department of Mathematics of Wuhan University, vice president of Wuhan University, director of the Institute of Mathematics and Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Mathematical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He is one of the main founders and advocates of function theory, mathematical physics and systems science in China. He has made outstanding contributions to the use of mathematical computing technology in the modernization of the country. He has published 18 monographs. He was an erudite and versatile scholar, with a strong knowledge of literature and science, a love of calligraphy and painting, and a passion for poetry and song, and died in February 1996 at the age of 86 years.
Fengshun Uprising
On April 21 and May 15, 1927, in order to resist the massacre policy of the Kuomintang, the Peasant Self-Defense Army of Fengshun County and the peasants had successively staged an uprising to besiege the county town. After the failure of the 2nd Uprising, the farmers who participated in the Uprising retreated to Jiulong Roach and other areas, and set up the 10th Regiment of the East Road of Guangdong Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army in Jiulong Roach in Oct. On Feb. 2, 1928, according to the instruction of the C***dongjiang Special Committee on the holding of the New Year's Day Riots, the Committee of the 10th Regiment of the East Road of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army and the Party Department of the Regiment issued the "Notice to the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants of the Surnames of Wu in Fengshun County," calling on the workers and peasants with the surname of Wu to unite On February 11th, the 10th Regiment of the East Road of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army and the Peasants' Self-Defense Army of more than 2,000 people, as well as more than 6,000 members of the Farmers' Association under the command of the regimental commander Zheng Xing, hoisted the flag of the Party, the flag of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army and the ploughshares' flag, and marched to the county seat in four different directions, and set up pillboxes along the bank of the Liangxiang River to confront the county seat. At 7 o'clock that night, the farmers were led by Zhang Zhihan, Zhang Xueshan, Zhang Bairong, Zhang Qikun, Zhang Bilun, etc., with Zheng Xing, Zhang Taiyuan, Cai Ruoyu, Lai Fengxiang commanded by the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army East Road, the 10th regiment began to attack the city. Night 9 o'clock, the farmers destroyed the enemy's fortifications on the other side of the river, and then launched more than 10 times to the enemy inside the city charge. The enemy inside the city was in a state of confusion, and Feng Xizhou, the county chief of the Nationalist Party, called for help from the Nationalist Party government in Shantou. Then, Feng Xizhou urgently transferred Huang Raidiao of Tangkeng to lead the "labor army" and Wu's security team of Tianbei, Zhangpo and Qiaobei townships to come to relieve the siege. 12, the gunpowder magazine of the peasant army in Liangxiang exploded inadvertently, and the security team of the county took the opportunity to attack the base camp of the riot team in Liangxiang, and both sides started a street battle. The enemy set fire to the barracks of the farmers, forcing the farmers to retreat to Dazhan, etc. On the 13th, the head of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the farmers' army of the North Road and the West Road held a meeting in the occupied area, and mobilized their troops for a counter-attack on the 14th to the county. Workers and peasants revolutionary army east road 10th regiment respectively from the county west road, north road organization attack, and from the townships organized 500 "daredevil", from the double screw mouth township counter-attack. Although the farmers killed and wounded more than 10 people, but the attack was unsuccessful. At this time, the Kuomintang Tangkeng district chief Huang Raidiao has led the security forces, "labor army" and other reactionary armed hundreds of people to come to the aid. KMT 13th Army 2nd Division Deputy Division Commander and 5th Regiment Zhou Jimin, also led the 5th Regiment from Meixian to Fengshun on the 15th. The Kuomintang reinforcements attacked all the strongholds of the farmers in different places. When the plague was spreading in the county, human and natural disasters came together. In order to retain their strength, Zheng Xing called the leaders of the various routes to study the situation and decided to retreat in a scattered manner.
On April 4, 1929, in order to follow the instructions of the Dongjiang Special Committee, Zhong*** Fengshun County, Guangdong Province, led the 10th regiment of the East Road Army of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, the 12th regiment and the peasant red guards of thousands of people to launch the Wuchang Uprising.
January 1, 1929, China *** Fengshun County, the second party congress was held in triumph, the election of a new county party committee, Lai Fengxiang as secretary. Afterwards the new county committee developed organizations throughout the county and established the Workers' and Peasants' Wushu. Soon after, the reactionary army of Tangkeng in Fengshun "invaded" the revolutionary base in Baxiangshan and was defeated by Gu Dacun's troops. On April 5, the enemy resumed the siege of Baxiangshan with the reactionary forces. In order to relieve the siege of Baxiangshan and clear the obstacles to the land revolution in the whole county, the county party committee decided to launch a large-scale uprising in the whole county following the 10th regiment and 12th regiment of the East Road of the Worker and Peasant Revolutionary Army and the peasant red guards of the authority. Before the uprising, Fengshun County Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Committee and the Fengshun Military Committee formed a joint command, by the Fengshun Red Guard Chief Captain Liu Chun as commander-in-chief. *** divided into five insurgent areas: the first insurgent area for the northeast piece, respectively, to attack the nationalist district government seat of gold and Liuhuang; the second insurgent area for the Fengshun attached to the city area, the townships at the same time action, attacking the townships of the nationalist regime; the third insurgent area for the Tangkeng district, to the guerrilla struggle to hold the eight townships mountain of the enemy does not come to the reinforcements; fourth insurgent area of the Tamjiang district, with the first insurgent area of the war. April 6, the **** Fengshun county committee secretary Lai Fengxiang led a large-scale uprising. Lai Fengxiang, secretary of the county party committee, led the 12th regiment and the Red Guard of the 4th district and the revolutionary masses of two to three hundred people to gather at Tiekeng in Pantian. In the morning of the following day, an attack was launched on the city of Huangjin. The insurgent team encircled the security committee and police station of the 4th district of Kuomintang, captured the chairman of Kuomintang security committee, Liu Qintang, the director of joint defense, and 3 policemen alive, and seized more than 20 long and short guns. At the same time, Chen Shizhen, the head of the county military committee, led the Red Army and the Red Guard of more than 200 people from Pantian and Huangjin City to Liuhuang, arriving at Liuhuang at 12:00 p.m. After a fierce battle with the enemy for half an hour, they occupied the high point, Liuhuang Middle School. Splitting up to search the streets, the defenders dispersed. During the battle, 10 enemies were captured, more than 20 guns were surrendered, and 1 reactionary was suppressed. In the 2nd riot area, Xia Tang, Matu, Shanglin, Qiaoqiao, Ye She and other townships rioted at the same time. on the evening of the 7th, more than 1,000 peasants and the masses attacked the Xia Tang Nationalist Baimei Guard Station, captured 9 guard captains and seized more than 20 guns. Then, the insurgent team besieged the KMT Shuangxi Guard and killed Zhang Sheng, the captain of the Guard. In Matu, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army sent two barge-carrying members to lead hundreds of peasants and the masses to capture the security committee and the security guard, killing one member of the security guard, capturing the chairman of the security committee and the instructor of the security guard, and seizing more than 10 guns. Nine soldiers of the 10th Regiment of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led the peasants and the masses to besiege the public security association and the guard of Shanglin Township, capturing the chairman of the public security association, Zhu Jiezhi, and the chief of the guard, Zhu Hua, etc., and seizing more than 10 guns. The peasant army of the townships near Fengshun County launched an attack on Jianqiao, resurrecting more than 10 reactionaries and seizing more than 10 guns. Ye She's peasant army and the masses attacked the township security association on the evening of the 6th, killing 1 enemy and seizing more than 80 guns. The Red Guards of Ma Jixiang, with the cooperation of the army, defeated the stubborn Yin Grotto stronghold and seized more than 30 guns. In the 3rd riot area, the 7th Regiment of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the 3rd District Farmers' Army repelled the Kuomintang's attack on Baxiangshan, killing and capturing 6 enemies and seizing more than 20 guns.
Fengshun County Uprising, **** captured the Kuomintang two district offices, as well as 13 township offices, killed 11 people, captured 174 people, 341 guns. To the uprising, a powerful blow to the arrogance of the Kuomintang, the rural struggle from the resistance to the development of rent to confiscation and distribution of land, the overthrow of the gentry and landlord power.
Archaeology
Jianqiao Township in Fengshun County, deep in the Lianhua Mountain Range, has discovered an ancient city that was built at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, more than 600 years ago.
The local people called "Jianqiao around" the ancient city covers an area of nearly 1 square kilometers, the city covers an area of 15,700 square meters, the entire building looks like a castle, rectangular, rounded inside, the ancient city is surrounded by a moat of water around the city from a distance like a large boat floating in the water. East, west, south, north and south of the four gates and the ancient city around thousands of meters as both the city wall and house wall of the city wall, is still well-preserved and very strong. The outer wall of the city gate is high and thick, inside the city gate erected wooden building shed and inside wide outside narrow gun holes, compact structure, and set up a fire wall does not show truss jiao, conducive to group living and defense against thieves and the enemy.
Yuan end of Jianqiao around the founder of the current has no evidence to trace, but according to local historical records, Jianqiao is a hilly mountainous area, fertile land, conducive to farming, located in the mountains are Lotus Mountains, the north and south of the mountains stand opposite, conducive to forestry development. Jianqiao around the ancient city of the final formation of the builder for the middle of the Ming Dynasty Meizhou state pastor Zhang Deda. He originally lived in Fujian Shanghang, in Guangdong Jiaying Prefecture (now Meizhou) state pastor, by the war strife is difficult to return to his hometown, Ming Longqing years (1567 ~ 1572) in this foundation.
Today there are about thousands of houses in the city. Here both retained the end of the Yuan ancient alley, more houses are Ming Dynasty flying eaves type courtyard building, but also the Qing Dynasty fire mountain wall type building mixed in, it is currently the Meizhou region so far found the only one preserved in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties of ancient architecture of the ancient city.
Fengshun County Power Supply Bureau, who grew up in the ancient city, told reporters that Jianqiao Wei ancient city follow the theory of the outer circle within the square, building an elliptical outline, the inner circle is square. Stores in the ancient city, the Cold War era to defend against foreign enemies, four gates a closed send defense, the ancient city will be as solid as gold, the city's residents do not go out of the city door for a month or two can still live a normal life as usual.
There are several other peculiarities in the design of the ancient city: one is the city streets and ancient alleyways can not see a drain. But no matter how much rain, the city from not flooding; two is the city building ventilation and lighting design is amazing, large and small 24 courtyard-style buildings, each building ventilation and lighting are just right, warm in winter and cool in summer; three is a very advanced design of fire prevention, in addition to the moat around the old city surrounded by the outside, the house and the house between the fire also built the wall, the courtyard of every house has a well and kitchen close to the well water for many years not dry, not only to facilitate life, but also to help you to live, and also to help you to live in the city. Withered, both easy to live, but also conducive to fire prevention, hundreds of years the city has never had a major fire.
Over the past 600 years, wars and conflagrations have taken place, and the outside world has changed drastically, but the ancient city of Jianqiaowei has been preserved as if it were a golden broth, thanks to the special geographical location of the ancient city. In the homes of the residents of the ancient city, posted on the wall of the hall with a brush written in block letters, "Zhu Zi's maxims of family governance" can still be seen. Here, history has precipitated the fine traditions of our ancestors: filial piety, reverence for literature, poverty and happiness, which still y affects the life of the people in the ancient city.