Rugao is located in the northern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, with latitude 32 00 ′-32 30 ′ north and longitude120 20 ′-120 50 ′ east. It faces the Yangtze River in the south, across the river from Zhangjiagang City, Hai 'an City in the north, Rudong County in the east, Tongzhou District in the southeast, Taixing City in the west and Jingjiang City in the southwest. The total area of the city is 1576.47 square kilometers, including 99 square kilometers of the Yangtze River.
The coastline of Rugao Yangtze River is 48km long, and the deep-water coastline of the Yangtze River can be directly utilized (18.6km). Toarey Yang Canal, Ruhai Canal, Rutai Canal and Jiaogang River run through the whole territory, with a total length of158.52km..
Historical evolution:
"Shangshu Gong Yu" records: In ancient times, Rugao belonged to the territory of Yangzhou; The Shang and Zhou Dynasties were called Haiyang. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, it was named in Yang, and it belonged to Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Wu died in Yue. The Warring States Period belonged to Chu, Qin belonged to Jiujiang County and Han belonged to Hailing County. In the seventh year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (4 1 1), Rugao County was in front of it, and the Sui Dynasty was merged into Ninghai County in Yangzhou. In the fifth year of Tang Taihe (83 1), Rugao Field was established. In the tenth year of Baota in the Southern Tang Dynasty (952), it was promoted to Rugao County, belonging to Taizhou. Later dynasties followed the county system, with the lower-middle county in the Song Dynasty and the upper-middle county in the Yuan Dynasty. Taizhou was still under the jurisdiction of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was under the jurisdiction of Tongzhou Zhili Prefecture in the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724). In the Republic of China, it was a first-class county, and tied for the largest county in China with Shaoyang, Hunan. In August of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the New Fourth Army moved eastward to Rugao Xixiang and established Rugao County Government in Lugang. In June 5438+10, the county government continued to move eastward to Rugao Dongxiang and took over Rugao county government. In the 30th year of the Republic of China (194 1), Rugao county government was established in Xixiang, Rugao. At this point, the original Rugao County was divided into two with the Toarey Yang Canal as the boundary. For example, Xixian County belongs to the Commissioner's Office of the Third Administrative Region of Central Jiangsu, and Rugao County belongs to the Commissioner's Office of the Fourth Administrative Region of Central Jiangsu. In the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1945), on September 2 1 day, the New Fourth Army regained Rugao City, such as Xixian County, and Rugao County, which was originally located in Rugao Dongxiang, was renamed Rudong County. In February of the same year 1, the first Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region Administrative Commissioner's Office was established in Rugao. 1949 65438+1October 28th, Rugao was liberated. 12 In May, the First Administrative Commissioner's Office of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region was renamed as the Commissioner's Office of Taizhou Administrative Region in northern Jiangsu, which was under the jurisdiction of Rugao. On May 29th, Rugao was approved as a first-class county. 1950,65438+10, Rugao County was placed under the Commissioner's Office of Nantong Administrative Region in northern Jiangsu, and 1952 was upgraded to a special county. 1983 belongs to Nantong city. 1 991June1day withdrew from the county and set up Rugao city.
Administrative divisions:
Rugao governs Chengcheng, Chengbei and Chengnan, Chen Dong, Ding Yan, Baipu, Xia Yuan, Jiuhua, Shizhuang, Wuyao, Jiang 'an, Banjing, Motou and Changjiang Town 1 1. Chengbei Street and Rugao Development Zone, Chengnan Street and Rugao High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Rucheng Street and Rugao Industrial Park implement the "district-street combination" management mechanism, and Changjiang Town and Rugao Port Area implement the "town-district combination" management system. There are 347 villages (communities) in the city, including community 18 1 and village 166.
Local customs:
Rugao dialect belongs to Jianghuai Mandarin Taiwanese film, which is greatly influenced by Wu dialect and is related to both Gan dialect and Hakka dialect. Rugao dialect covers Rugao City, Rudong County, Hai 'an City, Taixing City, southern Dongtai City and Duanshan District of Zhangjiagang City, with a total area of about 6,000 square kilometers and a total population of about 5 million, represented by Rucheng dialect. The language of Rucheng and its surrounding areas is Rucheng dialect. For example, there is a charm of Taixing dialect 3 kilometers west of the city, called Xixiang dialect. Baipu, Jiuhua and Tongzhou are at the junction, which is a transitional dialect belt between the two places. There are two groups of consonants with the characteristics of Nantong dialect in the southern half of the language, which are called Nanxiang dialect. Yongansha area in the south has only landed for decades, and immigrants come from 18 provinces. Although their descendants all use Rugao dialect, every difference between villages and polder areas is called polder area dialect.
Rugao residents are mainly Han people with simple folk customs, similar to Yangzhou. In the long-term production and life, they have formed unique folk customs in diet, clothing, housing, marriage, childbirth, birthdays, funerals, festivals and sacrifices. At the age of Rugao, there are some customs in the long summer, such as eating boiled eggs for breakfast, beets at noon, weighing children, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing patchwork and sachets, burning scriptures to worship ancestors and "fasting orphans" in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eating moon cakes, lotus root cakes and ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival, especially around the Spring Festival. Wedding and funeral customs include that the bride can't visit relatives and friends, neighbors, "burn haunted houses" and perform "child's play" during the wedding month. In the custom of birthday, the centennial celebration is the most grand, and a centennial bowl should be burned at home to give to relatives, friends and neighbors. People have the custom of being small, performing "Children's Play", singing "Yi Xing Diao" (Yue Opera), "Xiahe Diao" (Yang Opera) and "Seven Fields", and performing such programs as boating on the lake, walking on stilts, waist bending, playing flower drums, dancing dragon lanterns and singing Daoqing during the Spring Festival. With the gradual improvement of social civilization, great changes have taken place in folk customs. In traditional festivals, some unhealthy old customs are abandoned, some festivals are endowed with positive and healthy contents, and some new customs are gradually formed.
Places of interest:
1) Shuihuiyuan Scenic Area
National AAAA tourist attractions. Located in the northeast corner of Rugao Ancient City, covering an area of about 270,000 square meters, it consists of Shuihui Garden and Shuiminglou Ancient Architecture Complex, Rugao Longevity Museum in China, Rugao Pottery Garden in China, Yiyuan Garden and Dongjie Historical and Cultural Block.
The Water Painting Garden was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573— 1620). At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a gifted scholar ventured across the border and once lived here with Dong Xiaowan, the Eight Flowers of Qinhuai. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit. There are more than 10 scenic spots in the park, such as: white marble pavilion, Yimozhai, Yinshulou, Xiangzhong Pavilion, Hanging Mountain Tower, Jingge, Selangpo, Xiaosanwu Pavilion, Pillow Smoke Pavilion, Miaoyinxiang Forest, Ancient City Wall, Yanboyu Pavilion, Biluolou, Hanging Peak, Dishwashing Pool, Xiaosanwu Creek, He Yu, etc. The park is full of water, picturesque reflection, romantic love story, profound historical and cultural background and unique garden landscape, which makes the Shuihui Garden a tourist attraction integrating natural landscape, human landscape and history and culture, and is known as the "First Couple Cultural Park in China".
Shuihuiyuan
Shuiminglou complex is another important scenic spot in Shuihui Garden. It was built in the 23rd year of Qingganlong (1758). It is a beautifully sculpted boat-like water pavilion building, which is praised as "the orphan of Huizhou Garden" by Chen Congzhou, a master of landscape architecture. There are precious cultural relics and documents in Yinyuzhai and Yuxiang Temple in the west of the building for tourists to enjoy. China Confucian bonsai garden, formerly known as "Hu Ling Garden", was founded 400 years ago. The largest five-needle pine bonsai in China and the Song Dynasty bonsai with a tree age of 1000 are displayed.
The longevity museum displays and explores the mystery of Rugao longevity from all aspects, giving people beneficial health enlightenment.
Dongjie historical and cultural block has the style of Rugao ancient street in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, including Li Yu Memorial Hall, Silk Carpet Museum, Champion Cultural Center and other exhibition halls, as well as historical structures and cultural relics such as Yingchun Bridge and Wang Yao Temple, and won the 20 16 China Human Settlements Model Award.
Rugao east avenue
2) Dinghui Temple
National AAA-level tourist attractions. Located in the southeast corner of Rugao ancient city, it was founded in the 11th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (59 1), and is famous at home and abroad for its long history, large scale, unique pattern and strong incense. In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1607), the Ursa Major Hall and the King Kong Hall were rebuilt, and the mountain gate was changed to face north. Later, the second floor of the bell and drum, the Sutra Pavilion, the Zen Hall, the ancestral hall and the Zhaitang were successively built. The entrance of Dinghui Temple faces the Daiyu River, with the release pond in the east and the Yulian pond in the southwest. The layout of the temple is in the shape of "Hui", the main hall is surrounded around, and the Jubao Hall is located in the center, forming a unique pattern of "water ring temple, building holding hall".
Dinghui Temple
3) Changshou Town, China
National AAA-level tourist attractions. Located in the western suburbs of the city, with a total area of about 100 hectares. Theme symbol, bronze cast birthday star, 49 meters high, wearing a hat and smiling. Traditionally dressed as a flower farmer in Rugao, she symbolizes hard work and longevity, and was praised as "the biggest birthday girl in the world" by Master Ren Farong, chairman of the Chinese Taoist Association. China Changshou Museum is one of the core attractions of Changshou Town, which looks like an alien meteorite. Its orderly hall, Rugao hall, China hall and world hall condense the long history of longevity, collect the classic mysteries of longevity and display the wonderful longevity culture. There are also attractions such as Wanshou Centennial Bowl, which is the largest bronze bowl in the world certified by Guinness World Records. Changshou Town, China is a tourist attraction with the characteristics of the hometown of longevity, and it is also a place to hold birthday activities. If there is an opportunity, you can discuss the secret of longevity with centenarians at close range.
Baishoubei
4) China Changshou Culture Valley
National AAA-level tourist attractions. Located in the most beautiful village in China, Rucheng Street Guzhuang Community, with a total area of about 3,000 hectares, it is a characteristic eco-tourism scenic spot integrating eco-tourism, business leisure, sightseeing and entertainment, covering the core scenic spot of Guzhuang Ecological Park, Sutong Ecological Sightseeing Park, International Horticultural City, 200 hectares lawn base of Qianchang Village, Oriental Pottery Garden, Hu Anding's hometown, Bai Dailan Garden, Shanghai Baolai Phalaenopsis Garden and Guzhuang Longsheng. With its unique natural landscape and profound cultural accumulation, the park is the natural oxygen bar in the main city, the green lung of the city, and a place for tourists and citizens to relax and exercise.
5) Fabao Temple
National AAA-level tourist attractions. Located in Baipu Town, it was built in the fourth year of Tang Dahe (830) and rebuilt in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (1054), with a flourishing incense. Zheng Banqiao, a painter and painter in Qing Dynasty and one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", is a monument to the temple. According to legend, Ren Yuan, a Japanese monk, entered the Tang Dynasty, and Yue Fei, an anti-Jin hero in the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, Shen Qi, the suggestion of Zuodu, and Yuan Mei, a poet, all visited and chanted the magic weapon temple. Fabao Temple has a unique architectural layout and looks like an elephant. The ancients left poems such as "Wandering Monk Trunk Bay, Pointing to the Tiger Creek" and "A bay becomes an elephant trunk, and the magic weapon has a long reputation". Fish, shrimp, turtles and soft-shelled turtles swim freely in the temple. Roses, peonies and peonies are in full bloom around the pond. There is a warm-hearted pavilion in the center of the pond, which is connected with the shore by a curved bridge. It is a good place for tourists to enjoy the cool in summer. Wan 'an Bridge to the east of Fangshengchi is the epitome of Wan 'an Bridge in Baipu Town.
6) Yangtze medicinal botanical garden
National AAA scenic spots, national demonstration sites of leisure agriculture and rural tourism, and provincial five-star rural tourist spots. Located in Changqing Sha Eco-tourism Resort. It covers an area of about 333 hectares with a total investment of about 2.6 billion yuan. The first phase of the project is a comprehensive medicinal botanical garden covering an area of 200 hectares. Established in 20 1 1 10, it mainly cultivates Chinese herbal medicines with medicinal value or health care function, absorbs the cultural heritage of Rugao, the hometown of long-lived flowers and trees, and integrates leisure agriculture, ecological catering, protection of medicinal plant resources in the Yangtze River basin, scientific research and popular science education. The main attractions in the park are: the main entrance with the space of waterscape square as the prelude, which has both the charm of Rugao traditional architecture and the charm of modern Jiangnan garden architecture; A water island landscape cultural square formed by the construction method of "one peak is too beautiful to find a thousand miles, and one spoon is the Wan Li of rivers and lakes"; Changshou Lake with excellent water quality and rich products; Holiday cabin area built by water; Honeysuckle herb theme park; There is also an aromatic medicinal botanical garden.
7) Jindao Ecological Park
National AAA-level scenic spots and provincial four-star rural tourist attractions are located in Evergreen Sand Eco-tourism Resort. The total area is about 133 hectares with a total investment of 500 million yuan. Located in the Dongfeng Beach of Evergreen Sand Island, the park absorbs the essence of the Yangtze River and presents three characteristics of "Yangtze River culture, evergreen culture and longevity culture". Rivers crisscross the park, and the gardens are full of birds and flowers, fragrant grass and warblers ... full of green and vitality, pure, peaceful and beautiful. Eco-star hotels, fitness clubs, business clubs, physical examination centers, leisure centers, mini parks and other facilities hidden between green trees and clear water allow tourists to enjoy quality education, cultural exchange, fitness and health care, leisure and entertainment services in the fresh natural oxygen bar.
8) Scenery belts of rivers in internal and external cities
National AAA-level tourist attraction, located in the urban area. The inner and outer rivers around the city, including the outer ring, look like ancient money. The inner city river, formerly called Dai Yuhe, was formed in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty (1465- 1487). The Outer City River, also known as Haohe River, was dug in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty (1522- 1566). There are more than 65,438+00 historical and cultural attractions along the Inner and Outer City River, such as the Sheting of the Spring and Autumn Ruins, the Yingchun Bridge in Gao Qiao in the Ming Dynasty, the Dinghui Temple in the Millennium Temple, Li Jixian where celebrities come forth in large numbers, Ling Wei in Jianghuai, and Fan Gongyuan in memory of the famous Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty. There are 29 bridges with different shapes on the inner and outer rivers, carrying many wonderful legends and stories. The white stone guardrail on both sides of the Shuanghuan River winds like a dragon, with lush trees and blooming flowers along the line. The unique landscape of "water around the city, water in the city" makes Rugao, an ancient city, a unique scenic zone.
9) Red Fourteenth Army Park
National AAAA-level tourist attraction, located in Fushou East Road, Rucheng Street. Covering an area of 17.4 hectares, it is composed of the Red Fourteenth Army Memorial Hall, the Red Army History Education Development Training Base and the Municipal Youth Red Army History Education Museum. It is an important base for carrying forward the revolutionary tradition and carrying out patriotism, collectivism and socialist education. The main building, the Red Fourteenth Army Memorial Hall, is listed as a national revolutionary memorial facility and a national defense education demonstration base. It is composed of Preface Hall, Jianghai Dawn, Long Night Thunder, Cutting Wood for Righteousness, Picturesque Military Flag, Innovation, Jingoma Iron, Loyalty and Righteousness, Wildfire Spring Breeze, and Tail Hall. There are 10 pictures, and the explanatory text is nearly 40,000 words.
Source: Rugao Yearbook of official website (20 19).