The Historical Evolution of Mashenqiao

Mashenqiao Town is located in the east of Jixian County/0/8km away from Kloc-0. It is connected to Sungezhuang Township in the north, Touling Town in the east, Chuanfangyu Township in the west and Cuiping Lake in the south. Located at the junction of the two cities (Tianjin and Tangshan), Bangxi Highway runs through the town, starting from Ma Ping Highway. The town covers a total area of 52.5 square kilometers, governs 42 villages, 9,420 households, 34,000 people and 20,200 mu of cultivated land.

Mashenqiao Town has a long history and culture, and is one of the eight major market towns in the history of Jixian County. Why is it called "Mashen Bridge"? Let's talk about bridges first, because there are many bridges around the town. According to Jizhou Records, there were more than a dozen stone bridges in the light years of Qing Dynasty (1821-1850). What does "Ma Shen" mean? This is related to Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin. According to legend, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin failed in his expedition to Korea and fled to Mashenqiao. Li Shimin built many pontoons on the river to lure the enemy. Enemy soldiers caught up with them, and Tang Jun, who was crossing the bridge, was flustered and had no fighting spirit. Especially, Emperor Taizong's royal horse bent down and spread his legs, so he was exhausted. The enemy commander ordered the attack. The soldiers crowded onto the pontoon bridge and fell into the water. Tang Jun fought back and won. In order to praise the contribution of Imperial Horse, Emperor Taizong ordered craftsmen to build a stone statue of Imperial Horse at the place where Imperial Horse stretched out, and built more than a dozen bridges on both sides of the river, naming the place "Imperial Horse Stretched out to Help". Later referred to as "Mashen Bridge".

The site of Shannu Pagoda is located on Fengshan on the He Lin River of Mashen Bridge. The Goddess Pagoda was built by local people in the second year of Daan, Liaoning Province (1086) to commemorate a woman named Xue. It can be seen from the inscription "A monument was built for a good girl pagoda in Yuyang County, jizhou city City, Liaoning Province" that the pagoda was very large at that time. Unfortunately, there is only one left today.

Mashenqiao Town has beautiful scenery and has been a treasure trove of geomantic omen since ancient times. Xiao Shenyang, the favorite of Emperor Qianlong and the first corrupt official in Manchu Dynasty, took a fancy to this place and built a luxurious cemetery for himself near Zhangdingzhuang in the southwest of the town. However, he was executed by Jiaqing before he finished writing. Billions of wealth in small Shenyang were turned over to the state treasury by Jiaqing. It was really "small Shenyang fell and Jiaqing made a fortune"! The tomb of Little Shenyang has been submerged by Yuqiao Reservoir.

186 1 year, Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty died of illness, and Cixi staged a palace coup in Beijing, depriving eight ministers of their lives. History is called "Qixiang coup". There is another story about this coup. Eight ministers were kidnapped by Cixi while escorting Xianfeng's coffin to Mashen Bridge. Cixi began the history of listening to politics. It is said that the "Niang Temple" in the town was built by Cixi to commemorate the success of the coup. It is said that after Empress Dowager Cixi came to power, she wanted to abolish Guangxu and build a new repository. Wu, the official minister, strongly opposed it. In the fifth year of Guangxu, he drank poisoned wine in Sanyi Temple in the town, and the corpse was buried here.

During the period of the Republic of China, the headquarters of warlord Sun Dianying was located in Mashenqiao, not far from Qingling Mausoleum in Malanyu, Zunhua. 1June, 928, in the name of military exercises, secretly excavated the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong, and obtained a large number of treasures, which were wanted by the then National Government. After Sun Dianying bribed Song Meiling and others, it turned the tables. The thief of Dongling was reviled by later generations.

Longshan, located in Mashenqiao Town, is a famous historical mountain. Ji Zhou Zhi, written by Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, contains: Longshan Mountain, 25 kilometers east of Zhou, with Longshan Temple on it, competes in March every year, 18. This seemingly ordinary hill is the center of the anti-Japanese riots in Jixian County. 1938, according to the instructions of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to "cooperate with the riots in Jidong", Song, Deng Hua led the fourth battalion to advance into Jidong and arrived in the northern part of Jixian County in mid-June. This greatly stimulated the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people in Jixian County. On June 20th, more than 300 people from six or nine militia groups in Mashenqiao Town took the lead in the uprising, which opened the prelude to the anti-Japanese armed uprising in Jixian County. /kloc-in the early morning of July, 0/5, more than a thousand people gathered in Longshan, and the condolences such as guns, ammunition, food and materials sent by the village salvation associations filled the hillside in front of the theater. Longshan became the command center of armed riots in eastern and western Hebei. The revolution led by the party has formed a prairie fire in this hot land of Jixian County!

In recent years, Mashenqiao Town insists that development is the top priority, implements Scientific Outlook on Development, strives to cultivate pillar industries and new economic growth points, builds a new socialist countryside in an all-round way and builds a harmonious society, and has made remarkable achievements in the construction of three civilizations.

Combined with the reality of the town, they established the development idea of "fruits in the north and vegetables and fisheries in the south", intensified the adjustment of industrial structure, and created the "one village, one product" project, which realized high agricultural yield and efficiency and improved the production and living standards of rural farmers in the town. Under the premise of not relaxing grain production, we should make full use of policies such as the development of mountainous reservoir areas, small discount loans for animal husbandry, and solving the problems left over by immigrants in the reservoir areas. It has successively built five bases of grain, grapes, vegetables, fruits and meat ducks, and 20 boutique parks, including Bowangzhuang Grape, Haonv Tacai and Zhaogezhuang Organic Apple. It is estimated that by 20 1 1 year, there will be 20 specialized villages for fruits and 22 specialized villages for melons, vegetables, livestock and aquatic products. According to the requirements of the modern enterprise system, the restructuring of town-run collective enterprises such as Sanzheng Clothing and Taisheng Fabric has been completed, and the vitality of enterprises has been significantly enhanced. Individual and private economy has become an important growth point of rural economic development in this town. At present, there are 806 individual industrial and commercial households and 37 private enterprises in the town. The individual and private economy accounts for more than 70% of the town's total output value. Farmhouse tourism has sprung up everywhere. In particular, Shangrenyi Farmhouse (Dayu Village) relies on natural and human resources to vigorously develop farmhouse tourism, which has become a new bright spot of farmhouse tourism in northern Hebei Province.

In 2006, Mashenqiao Town was established as one of the 30 municipal central towns. They seized this rare historical opportunity, took the construction of a new socialist countryside as the starting point, constantly increased investment, improved basic supporting facilities, and gradually built Mashenqiao Town into a modern town with harmonious society, economy and environment, reasonable town and village system layout, convenient and perfect road traffic, comfortable living conditions and complete social services.