a small town, hidden in the mountains, like a shy and veiled beauty. The buildings in the town are surrounded by mountains and ditches, winding and lingering. In addition to natural villages, hotels and offices, the town also has education halls, conference halls, service centers, style homestays, high-rise towers, art sculptures, etc., interspersed with agricultural fields such as tea gardens, orchards and vegetable gardens.
The buildings in the town are mainly the factory buildings and living facilities during the third-line construction in 1961s and 1971s, and they are part of the 531 Arsenal. The 531 Arsenal is another part of the 531 Project. The 531 project has 13 sub-headquarters, which spans nearly 111 kilometers from east to west and nearly 51 kilometers from north to south, involving Jiyuan, Mengzhou and Luoyang Geely District. The 531 project is the product of the times and the result of the international situation. In the complicated and tense world situation, Chairman Mao issued a call to the people of the whole country to "prepare for war, prepare for famine and serve the people", and hundreds of thousands of troops from all over the country participated in the construction of the May 31 Project. From 1964 to 1981, a large-scale national defense project-531 Arsenal was built in Jiyuan City, which was the largest artillery factory in China at that time. At that time, there were garrisons, factories, schools, shopping malls, post offices, banks, cinemas, auditoriums, etc., which gathered all walks of life, including workers, peasants, soldiers, academics and businessmen. It was a completely concentrated small society. After September 1971, with the international situation slowing down, the May 31 project was abandoned halfway, leaving only one division and four divisions in normal production, and the rest of the troops were evacuated, leaving a large number of buildings idle. The legacy buildings fell into silence and ruin, silently snuggled up to the South Taihang, gradually withered in time, and were in a state of deep sleep. For a long time, the old arsenal was only a distant memory in people's minds, but few people were interested and patronized.
It was the spring breeze of national rural revitalization that awakened the old arsenal. Under the guidance of the national rural revitalization policy, Jiyuan City has upgraded the ravines and buildings where the old arsenal has been silent for many years around the general requirements of "prosperous industry, livable ecology, civilized rural customs, effective governance and affluent life". Renovation respects the original architectural style, retains the original wall, shows the age of the building, and shows the old ordnance culture. For example, the original sorbet factory, boiler room, supply and marketing cooperative and bathhouse were transformed into hotels, and some slogans such as "Dig deep and accumulate grain", "Build the third line well, let the chairman sleep well" and "Make up your mind, not afraid of sacrifice, and build socialism quickly, well and economically" were retained on some walls, which made the difference between the old and the new, highlighted the elements of military engineering and the imprint of the times, and integrated modern art and historical memory. You see, the mottled walls with unique third-line construction flavor, the boiler chimneys that have been baptized by the years, the partition walls built with bullet boxes, and the unique old objects ...... everywhere are filled with the military flavor of those years and the old flavor of those years.
The town's simple hotels, artists' villages, happy dining halls, cultural auditoriums, etc. have the ability to receive large teams for Lu Tong tea culture experience, picking farming experience, lodging and dining, conferences and banquets, etc., and have become an eco-tourism and holiday base integrating leisure and cultural tours, customs and folk customs, catering and entertainment. At the same time, the town will also develop a cave hotel. It is said that more than 21 contiguous caves were dug for future generations to rest after working when Yugong moved mountains. Each cave has a different theme, some of which contain Buddhism and Zen, and some show Taoist culture.
The ancient village homestay in the town is mainly composed of adobe houses and stone houses, which are warm in winter and cool in summer. Stone benches and brick roads are distributed. Old trees and new seedlings are planted in the courtyard, and there is a pond nearby. There are lotus flowers and water lilies in the pond, and fish swim among them, accompanied by frogs and insects. What an idyllic scenery! Beside the vegetable fields and in the grassy slopes, cattle and goats are scattered, which adds to the field atmosphere. Childhood memories and deep homesickness are all here to stay and show.
the town has a poetic name-those years town. Yes, in those years, experts, scholars, senior technicians and passionate builders from all over the country responded to the call of the country and gathered here to engage in construction, dedicated their youth and talents, and some even buried their loyalty; In those years, the originally quiet mountain valley was noisy and changed under the presence of the construction army; In those years, people were buzzing, machines were roaring, wheels were rolling, and there was a busy scene of speeding up production; In those years, at sunset and sunrise, people came and went, born and died, and how many life stories were interpreted. In those years, the town will always be the home of the old ordnance workers and their descendants.
Unforgettable years are indelible historical memories of the builders of that year; Unforgettable those years are the unforgettable complex of the descendants of the old ordnance industry for that mountain valley; Unforgettable those years are the people of Jiyuan's deep memory of those years and their deep friendship for the old ordnance workers and their descendants; Unforgettable those years, it is a sincere invitation from Yuchuan earth to distant friends.