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Jiuxi Village, Jiangya Town, located in the northwest of Cili County, is an ancient "border town". It is named after nine streams around it: Dahexi, Suoshui, Lengshui, Luyang, Lianshi, Zhangmaxi, Shengbai, Hebao and Douxi. Jiuxiwei ancient city is curved, and a bay of clear water passes around the city, nourishing the unique Tujia ancient houses.

According to historical records, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Tujia ancestors built "Suokou Village" here. In the 23rd year of Hongwu (A.D. 1390), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, set up the "Jiuxiwei", which governed Anfu Institute, Mario Institute, Tian Pingsuo, Lizhou Institute and Sangzhi Xuanwei Department, and ruled the ethnic minorities in Lishui River Basin. In the same year, Jiuxi Wei commanded Lu Cheng, Han Zhong and others to collect wood and cut stones before building the Acropolis, set up a health department and sent troops to guard it. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Li Chengen, the deputy commander in chief, led the troops to repair it.

Jiuxi Health Department * * * There are four gates in the ancient city, and there are tall buildings on the gates. The east gate is called Chaotian, the south gate is called Yingxun, the west gate is called Dingbian, and the north gate is called Gong Ji. Literati often visit places of interest in Jiuxi, or mourn the present, leaving more than 100 poems. Sun, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a brief account of the immortals after reading the Cave of the Immortals. Chen Shiyun, the official minister of the Ming Dynasty, visited Jiuxiwei and climbed the South Tower to overlook it. The poem "Dengjiuxi South Tower" says that Jiuxi "sings and advocates swallowing the river, and the squad leader Rong Yuan wins the tour; Tianding draws a distant mountain and is close, and the ground steams trees. " The north and south city gates are well preserved and the north and south city walls are prosperous. It takes five minutes to drive from Jiangya Hot Spring Resort to the north gate of Jiuxi Acropolis. The remaining thousands of meters long city walls in the north are made of stones and bricks. Along the wall like a bow, north and south streets like long arrows. If you set foot on Jiuxi Shiban Ancient Street, it seems as if you have just entered a long tour. Among the long houses in the streets and alleys of the Acropolis, there are more than ten Tujia buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as century-old houses, woodcarving windows and masonry walls. 20 1 1 Jiuxiwei ancient city was announced by Hunan provincial government as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.

There are many buildings and temples in Jiuxi Acropolis, including xingguo temple, Wenchang Pavilion and Confucian Temple. Xingguo temple is located in the north of Jiuxi Ancient City, facing south, with five entrances and two Ming bells on the hillside. Ancient officials of civil and military affairs and poets who moved to other places all visited here, and there were many poems. In Zhou Xu's poem "xingguo temple", a senior minister of the Ministry of Industry in the Ming Dynasty, there is a famous sentence that "the jade steps are three points, and Tang Yu is the first class". The existing Meihua Temple is beautiful in shape and exquisite in skill, with octagonal eaves and upturned wing angles, so it was announced by the Hunan Provincial Government as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in 1983.

Jiangya Town, which looks like a centipede on the south bank of Laishui, is known as "an arrow shoots a centipede", and there is a south gate ferry between the north and south banks. Jiangya Town and Jiuxi Ancient City face each other across the river. It is named after being located at the intersection of Suoshui and Laishui and the mouth of Luojiang Pass. Han Huang, a professor of Confucianism at Jiuxiwei, described the scenery here as "a picture of sailing, willow bald and smoke burning" in his book "Sleeping on a boat in Jiuxi". Green water boiled red sun, green hills and white clouds. "At present, Jiangya Ancient Street, which has been declared as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit by the Hunan Provincial Government, stretches for three miles from Luojiang to Racecourse, including commercial ancient streets such as Donghe Street, T-Street and Xinglong Street paved with granite, and retains Tujia ancient buildings such as Chen Nengkuan's former residence and Tang Chenghou House.

In recent years, the government of Cili County has developed Jiangya Scenic Area, including Jiuxiwei Ancient City, xingguo temple, Longwangdong and Luojiang Rafting. Jiangya Town Government invested more than 6,543,800 yuan to complete the planning of "Jiuxiwei Ancient City Restoration and Reconstruction Project", and Jiangya Tourism Resort Project has also been approved and implemented by Hunan Provincial Government.