Jiexiu has a long history. The earliest recorded history of Jiexiu in domestic history books is the five years of Lu Yin Gong in Zhou Dynasty (7 18 BC). It is called "the hometown of three sages" because there are three famous sages, namely, Feng Jun, a master of Broadcom in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Wen Yanbo in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has a total area of 744 square kilometers and a total population of 372,500. Jiexiu has a long history. The earliest recorded history of Jiexiu in domestic history books is the five years of Lu Yin Gong in Zhou Dynasty (7 18 BC). At that time, Quwo Zhuangbo cut the wings, followed by Jin Yi, east of Jiexiu today. At that time, it was a food city for Jin scholars. In 636 BC, Jin Wengong returned to China to enjoy the minister, but meson did not remember, and he lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong burned the forest in search of wisdom, but Zitui hugged his mother and died. Later, Jiexiu was named after the meson was pushed here. Since 5 14 BC, in Jiexiu history, Wuxian County was built in the east, Zhouyi in the west, Qin Shihuang set up a county, and the urban area was built in Jiexiu, which was later changed to Mei Jie, Jiexiu and Pingchang. During the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Dingyang County was ruled by overseas Chinese. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Jiexiu County was established. Jiexiu County and Jiezhou were established in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Lingshi, a neighboring county, was always a Jiexiu area before the county was established in 590 AD. In Sui and Tang Dynasties, Jiexiu County and Jiezhou County were established, and Pingyao County was also led. Xiaoyi was merged into Jiexiu County several times in history. During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the relationship between Jiexiu County and its territories remained basically unchanged. 1February, 992, with the approval of the State Council, Jiexiu County was changed to a county-level city, with the same administrative area and still under the jurisdiction of Jinzhong Administrative Office. It governs 7 towns, 3 townships, 232 administrative villages and 5 sub-district offices.
Independent environment
1, area and direction
Jiexiu City is located in the south-central part of Shanxi Province, on the north side of Taihang Mountain. The ground span is north latitude11144'10 "-10'14", and the north latitude is 36 50' 0/kloc. There is an uprising in Anjun Renjiabao Village in the north, and there is Artemisia argyi slope at the top of Mianshan Mountain in the south; It starts from Getatou Village, Tang Zhen in the west and ends in Nanyaotou Village, Zhang Lan Town in the east. It borders Pingyao and Fenyang in the northeast, Lingshi in the southwest, Qinyuan in the southeast and Xiaoyi in the northwest. It is 38.5 kilometers wide from east to west and 38 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of 744 square kilometers, accounting for 0.47% of the total area of the province.
2. Terrain
Jiexiu's overall terrain is high in the south and low in the north, with an altitude of 740-2487 meters. The southern part is mountainous, and the main peaks are Mianshan Mountain and Tianfeng Mountain, which belong to Taiyue Mountain Range, with an area of 3 12 square kilometers, accounting for 42.09% of the city's total area. The central part is hilly, with an area of 19 1.7 square kilometers, accounting for 25.86% of the total area of the city; Pingchuan District is in the north, covering an area of 237.6 square kilometers, accounting for 32.05% of the city's total area.
3. Climate
Jiexiu is located in the mid-latitude continental monsoon climate zone and belongs to the warm temperate continental climate. The sunshine time is more than 200 days throughout the year.
About 2500 hours. There are fewer hills and mountains than plains, and less in the south than in the north. According to the statistics of 1954- 1994 meteorological data, the annual average temperature of the whole city 10.4℃ has little change in winter and summer, and the general distribution trend is to increase from south to north and decrease from Pingchuan to hilly and mountainous areas. Annual average of the whole city
The average precipitation is 477.2 mm, generally concentrated in July-September. The average frost-free period is 175 days, and its distribution trend is that Pingchuan hills are longer than southern mountainous areas.
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Folklore and culture
Jiexiu has been "rich in merchants and rich in civilian products" since ancient times. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many shops in the four streets of the county, "just like a city". In Zhang Lan, Yi 'an, Hongshan, Tang Yi and other towns, in addition to Beijing goods and groceries, there are banks, pawn shops and Jinzhu shops. Zhang Lan Town holds an ancient temple fair in late September every year, and Wenshui leather goods, Qinzhou hemp goods, Hunyuan harness, Shangdang medicinal materials and Inner Mongolia mules and horses are listed and traded. Jiexiu has always had a large number of businessmen who went abroad with capital. In the early Qing Dynasty, Fan of Jiexiu Village was the first foreign copper merchant in Japan, and was made an imperial envoy by the imperial court. During the Daoguang period, among the 15 banks established early in Shanxi, Hou Shi, Jiexiu North Jia Cun, led 6 banks with a capital of 78.2 million yuan, becoming the first batch of rich households among the "Huitong Tianxia" banks. During the Tongzhi period, the Xin Wuji brothers in Jiexiu North also changed Buzhuang and Dejibuzhuang in Gansheng Township into banks, ranking among the giants of the three Shanxi banks.
Jiexiu is known as the hometown of three sages (Spring and Autumn Jiexiu, Guo in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wen Yanbo in the Northern Song Dynasty). Cai Yong, Zhang Jiuling, Li Shangyin, Gu, Fu Shan, Ru Lunchang, Song Tingkui, Niu Fuquan, Tian, and "Mianshan Four Mountain People" Dong, Liang, Wang and Ren all loved the magnificent mountains and rivers of Jiexiu and wrote many well-known poems and quatrains. The emergence of Jiexiu talents is due to the fact that rulers of past dynasties attached importance to education and were good at it. Before the Song Dynasty, there were only a few county schools in Shanxi, such as Yonghe, Jiexiu and Jishan. Jiexiu started the county school in Tang Xianzong in the third year (672), and built the Yucai Hall next to the Confucian Temple in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the number of candidates for Jiexiu examination reached 64, ranking fourth in the province, second only to Anyi, Pingding and Yangcheng.
Jiexiu traditional handicraft industry has a long history. Before the Tang Dynasty, Caipinggou in Hongshan had opened three kilns: coal kiln, mud kiln and bowl kiln. In the late Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, Hongshan ceramics industry and vinegar brewing in counties and cities had been produced on a large scale. Jiexiu ceramics are mainly Hongshan white porcelain, and its printing and carving workers are bold and unrestrained, without losing the true colors of folk kilns. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a record of burning glass in Jiexiu. In the Ming Dynasty, Jiexiu's glass burning reached its peak, and the existing glass buildings such as Zhangbi Castle, Chenghuang Temple, Shibeng Guang Bei Wenji Temple and Lingshizishou Temple were masterpieces of Jiexiu craftsmen. Jiexiu mature vinegar has the advantages of black and bright color, delicious taste and not easy to deteriorate. According to legend, the mature vinegar from Yingzhou, Anhui Province in Ming Dynasty and Qingxu, Shanxi Province in Qing Dynasty belonged to Hou and Wang, Jiexiu people respectively. During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, the papaya yellow wine brewed by Yi 'an "Xian Hengyong" was mellow and delicious, with bright color. In the Republic of China, he won the silver prize in Panama International Competition 18 (1929).
Ten miles of local conditions and customs are different. Jiexiu has always had two meals a day in urban and rural areas (the city authorities changed the schedule to three meals after the 1970s), and everyone has the custom of drinking tea. In addition, according to historical records, Jiexiu villagers are generous and eager to pay tribute; Literati respect etiquette and value integrity. However, among the townspeople, there are also bad habits of competing with luxury, worshipping Buddha and praying for blessings. According to the records of Jiexiu County Records of past dynasties, there are as many as 149 temples and shrines in Jiexiu (including 77 Buddhist temples and 47 Taoist temples), which are full of incense and customs.
Jiexiu people have a glorious tradition of struggle. In 304 AD, Liu Yuan, a Hun, rebelled against Jin and sent Joe to Jiexiu. Jiexiu County ordered Jia Hun and his wife to resist the festival and die for the national integrity, which has been shining in the history of China for thousands of years. During the eight-year anti-Japanese struggle, under the leadership of China, Jiexiu people established an army, opened up base areas and fortress villages, and fought indomitable against the Japanese aggressors under very difficult conditions. In the War of Liberation, the party member team in Jiexiu County of the Communist Party of China grew to 986 people, the militia team to 365,438+000 people, 65,438+054 outstanding cadres went south with the army to participate in the liberation of China, and the former team consisting of 8,376 people participated in the liberation of Taiyuan. The People's Daily once published a report on "Jiexiu migrant workers made meritorious service before leaving the army" on the front page. During the war years, Jiexiu was killed by Japanese invaders 1694 people, and a number of good cadres, such as Shang Gongshu, secretary of the county party committee, Gao Jianping, county magistrate, and Han Kui, instructor of the workers' guerrillas, gave their precious lives for the revolution.