Brief introduction of Rugao
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 is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the south, across the river from Zhangjiagang City, adjacent to 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, which can be directly utilized (18.6km). Toarey Yang Canal, such as Sea 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 Yangzhou; Shang and Zhou dynasties were called Haiyang. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, it became famous in Yang, and it belonged to Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu died in Yue, Chu in the Warring States Period, Jiujiang County in Qin Dynasty and Hailing County in Han Dynasty. In the seventh year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (4 1 1), it originally belonged to Rugao County and was merged into Ninghai County in Yangzhou in the Sui Dynasty. In the fifth year of Tang Taihe (83 1), Rugao farm was set up. In the tenth year of Baota in the Southern Tang Dynasty (952), it was promoted to Rugao County, which belonged to Taizhou. Later dynasties followed the county system, with the lower and middle counties in the Song Dynasty and the upper counties in the Yuan Dynasty. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were still under the jurisdiction of Taizhou, and the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724) was under the jurisdiction of Tongzhou Zhili State. In the Republic of China, it was a first-class county, and tied with Shaoyang in Hunan as the largest county in China. In August of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the New Fourth Army moved eastward to Xixiang, Rugao, and established Rugao county government in Lugang. In June 5438+10, the county government continued to move eastward to Rugao Dongxiang to take over Rugao county government. In the 30th year of the Republic of China (194 1), the Ruxi 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 Dongxiang, Rugao, was renamed Rudong County. On February 1 day of the same year, the Office of the First Administrative Commissioner of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region was established in Rugao City. 1949 65438+ October 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 governs 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 Office in northern Jiangsu, and 1952 was upgraded to a special county. 1983 is under the jurisdiction of Nantong city. 1 991June1day withdrew the county to set up the city and set up Rugao city.
Administrative divisions:
Rugao has jurisdiction over three streets, namely, the city, the north and the south, and Chen Dong, Ding Yan, Baipu, Xia Yuan, Jiuhua, Shizhuang, Wuyao, Jiang 'an, Banjing, Motou and Changjiang towns. 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 integration" management mechanism, and Changjiang Town and Rugao Port Area implement the "town-district integration" management system. There are 347 villages (communities) in the city, including 18 1 and 166 villages.
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 Taixing dialect with a long charm 3 kilometers west of the city, called Xixiang dialect. Baipu, Jiuhua and Tongzhou District 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 part of the language, which are called Nanxiang dialect. Yongansha area in the south has only landed for decades, and immigrants come from 18 provinces and regions. Although their descendants 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, children weighing themselves, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, children wearing baisuo and sachets, burning scriptures to worship their ancestors and "fasting orphans" on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eating moon cakes, lotus root cakes and ducks on the Mid-Autumn Festival, especially around the Spring Festival. Wedding and funeral customs include that the bride can't visit relatives, friends and neighbors in the wedding month, and can't "burn haunted houses" and perform "children's plays" during the funeral. In the custom of birthday, celebrating the centenary birthday is the most solemn. Family members should burn a centenary bowl for relatives, friends and neighbors. There are folk customs of being a "Young Miao Hui", performing "Boy's Play", singing "Yixing Tune" (Yue Opera), "Xiahe Tune" (Yangju Opera) and "Seven Fields", and performing programs during the Spring Festival, such as boating on the lake, walking on stilts, pulling the waist, playing flower drums, dancing dragon lanterns and singing Taoist feelings. 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-level tourist attractions. Located in the northeast corner of Rugao Ancient City, covering an area of about 270,000 square meters, it consists of Shuihua Garden and Shuiminglou Ancient Architecture Complex, Rugao Longevity Museum in China, Rugao Pottery Garden in China, Yiyuan Garden and Dongjie Historical and Cultural Block.
Shuihui Garden was built in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty (1573— 1620). At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a talented person 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 65,438+00 scenic spots in the park, such as Hanbai Jade Pavilion, Yimozhai, Yinshulou, Xiangzhong Pavilion, Hangshan Tower, Jingge, Wolverine Slope, Xiaosanwu Pavilion, Pillow Smoke Pavilion, Miaoyinxiang Forest, Ancient City Wall, Yanboyu Pavilion, Biluolou, Hanging Peak, Dishwashing Pool, Xiaosanwu River and He Yu. The park is full of smoke. The picturesque reflection, romantic love story, profound historical and cultural background and unique garden landscape make Shuihui Garden a tourist attraction integrating natural landscape, humanistic landscape and historical culture, and it is known as "China's first couple cultural park".
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-shaped 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 Zangyuzhai and Yuxiang Temple in the west of the building for tourists to enjoy. China Confucian bonsai garden, formerly known as Hu Ling Garden, was built 400 years ago. The largest five-needle pine bonsai in China and the Song Dynasty bonsai with a tree age of 1000 are exhibited here.
The longevity museum displays and explores the mystery of Rugao longevity from all aspects, which brings beneficial enlightenment to people in health care.
Dongjie historical and cultural block has the style of Rugao ancient street in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, with 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, which 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 halls are surrounded around, and the Treasure Hall is located in the center, forming a unique pattern of "water ring temple, building holding hall".
Dinghui Temple
Changshou Town, China
National AAA-level tourist attractions. Located in the western suburbs of the city, with a total area of about 100 hectares. The theme symbol is the birthday girl cast in bronze, 49 meters high, wearing a hat and smiling. In Rugao, she traditionally dressed as a flower farmer, which means hard work and long life. Master Ren Farong, Chairman of the Chinese Taoist Association, praised her as "the biggest birthday girl in the world". 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 scenic spots such as Wanshou Cup, 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 Guzhuang Community, Rucheng Street, the most beautiful village in China in the southern suburbs of the main city, 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 Eco-tourism Park, International Horticultural City, 200 hectares lawn base of Qianchang Village, Oriental bonsai Garden, Hu Anding's hometown, Bai Dailan Garden, Shanghai Baolai Phalaenopsis Garden and Guzhuang Longsheng Amusement Park. With unique natural landscape and profound cultural accumulation, the park is the natural oxygen bar in the main city and the green lung of the city, and it is a good 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 in Qing Dynasty and one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", inscribed a tablet for the ancient temple of Yangzhou. It is said that Ren Yuan, a Japanese monk, entered the Tang Dynasty, 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 temple. The architectural layout of Fabao Temple is unique 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 turtles swim freely in the temple. Roses, peonies and peonies are blooming 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, making it a good place for tourists to enjoy the cool in summer. Wan 'an Bridge on the east side 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 Changqingsha 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. Opened on 20 1 1 10, mainly planting Chinese herbal medicines with medicinal value or health care function, absorbing the cultural heritage of Rugao, the hometown of longevity and flowers and trees, and integrating 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 include: 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 landscape cultural square in Shuidao formed by the construction method of "one peak is too beautiful to find a thousand miles, and one spoonful of rivers and lakes Wan Li"; Changshou Lake with excellent water quality and rich products; Holiday cabin area built by water; Honeysuckle theme park; And aromatic medicinal botanical garden.
7) Jindao Ecological Park
National AAA-level scenic spots and provincial four-star rural tourist spots are located in Changqing Sha Eco-tourism Resort. The total area is about 133 hectares with a total investment of 500 million yuan. The park is located in the Dongfeng Beach of Evergreen Sand Island, absorbing the essence of the Yangtze River, showing three characteristics of "Yangtze River culture, evergreen culture and longevity culture". The rivers in the park are criss-crossing, the garden is full of birds and flowers, the grass is long and the warblers are flying ... It is 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 among 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. Inner and outer rivers surround the city, and the outer ring is inside, which looks like ancient money. The inner city river was called Dai Yuhe in ancient times, which was formed in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty (1465- 1487). Waicheng 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 Shooting Pavilion at the Spring and Autumn Ruins, the Yingchun Bridge in Gao Qiao in Ming Dynasty, the Dinghui Temple in the Millennium Temple, Li Jixian, Jianghuai Ling Wei, and Fan Gongyuan who commemorates the famous Fan Zhongyan in Song Dynasty. There are 29 bridges with different shapes on the inner and outer rivers, carrying many wonderful legends and stories. The white stone guardrails on both sides of the Shuanghuan River meander like dragons, with lush trees and blooming flowers. 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 consists 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, river and sea dawn, thunder in the long night, firewood cutting for righteousness, picturesque military flag, innovation, strong songs and horses, loyalty and heroism, wildfire spring breeze and tail hall, with 10 pictures and nearly 40,000 words of explanatory text.
Source of information: Rugao Yearbook (20 19) by official website, a local government.