Wuhua Tianbao is a golden land with outstanding people. Hushuguan has a long history, vast territory, rich products and developed transportation. It is a thousand-year-old town, a famous cultural town and an important economic town. In the Neolithic Age 5000 years ago, people were already engaged in fishing and hunting, rice farming and other activities. Township was set up in Qin Dynasty, tax clearance was set up in Yuan Dynasty to Zhengnian, and Qian clearance was set up in the fourth year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty (1429) (all officials were above Grade 6). In the 20th year of the Republic of China (193 1), the first district office in Wuxian county was located, with an area of 1 10 square kilometers. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), it merged with the fourth district (Wang Ting) and became the office of the fourth district, with an area of 165 square kilometers. It is located in Huangdai in the east, Mudu in the south, Guangfu in the west and Wuxi County in the north. 1April, 949, the seat of Wuxian county government. 1950 Hushuguan District governs 2 towns and 18 townships. 1960 is zoned to Suzhou, and 1962 is zoned back to Wuxian as a town directly under the county. 1988165438+10, Hushuguan was transferred from Wuxian to the suburb (huqiu district). From1September, 1992 to1April, 1994, 18 villages were set aside to establish provincial-level Hushuguan Economic Development Zone. In September, 2002, after the merger of Hi-tech Zone and huqiu district, Hushuguan was placed under the jurisdiction of Hi-tech Zone.
According to legend, in 2 10 BC, Qin Shihuang "begged the sword of the king of Wu to be sent to He Lv's tomb" during his southern tour. When he saw the white tiger crouching on the tiger hill, he led his troops to chase it for more than 20 miles. The place where the tiger disappeared was called "Tiger Scar". In the Tang Dynasty, the taboo of tigers was changed to "Hu Hu". Qian Liu, king of wuyue in the Five Dynasties, was jealous of tuberculosis, so he changed his name to "Uncle Hu". The Song Dynasty continued Wu Jun's Picturesque, also known as Poem Continuation. In the fourth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1429), the Ministry of Accounts set up a cash register. In the first year of Jingtai (1450), the Customs Department was established, which became one of the seven major banknote customs in China, hence the name Hushu Customs.
The territory is rich in landscape resources. There are Yangshan, Guanshan, Lushan, Zhenshan, Washan and Baishishan. There are the Grand Canal, Baidang, Zhuqingtang (Huguang Canal), Taihu Lake, Peijiawei and Jiuqu Dang. Among them, "Yangshan is Zhen Wu" and it is the landlord mountain of Wu. The peak of Arrow Que, the main peak, is 338.2 meters high, and there is a gap at the peak of Arrow Que, which is said to have been formed by Qin Shihuang's archery. The original bath pavilion on the top of the mountain is an excellent place to climb mountains and watch the sun and the moon rise together in the ancient Double Ninth Festival. Wang Ming Deng Zhi once wrote: "In September, when people gather in Chongyang Pavilion, they will watch the sun and the moon here." Yangshan is known as "Wuzhong Putuo". At its peak, it reached "one mile and one temple".
From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are more than 30 temples and shrines here. There is a saying in Yangshan phoenix temple that "Yangshan phoenix temple comes first, then Hangzhou Lingyin Temple", so phoenix temple is called "Little Hangzhou". After the pilgrims in Suzhou burn incense in Hangzhou, they all go to phoenix temple to burn "Huitou incense" and "Kaoxian water".
Guanshan, also known as Guanshan, was named after the seclusion of Taoist Guan in Baihe in Qin Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a Taoist resort in Wuzhong, with extremely strong incense, which was destroyed in 1958. Lushan Mountain is said to be the place where Wu Wang raises deer. The existing Lanfeng Temple was built in the second year of Yuan Dade (1298), and was originally named Jingfu Temple. In the early Qing Dynasty, there was a Buddhist monk named Lan Feng, so it was named Lan Feng Tower. Yangshan is also an ancient and modern battlefield.
During the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu and Yue Dynasties, in the autumn of 437 BC, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, committed suicide in a mile south of Yangshan, where Gou Jian, the king of Yue, was buried. Mid-levels Temple is the burial place of Sun Sheng, loyal minister of Fu Cha, the king of Wu. There is a local folk saying: "The dream of Fu tea is the clock of Mid-levels Temple (loyalty); Fu Cha' s hate (吆), the public' s life is Sun Sheng. "
Wenchangge Daoyuan was built in the 31st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1604). At that time, it was a famous Taoist school in China-Taiwei Law School. When Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, Zeng Dengting overlooked the scenery of the canal and praised it as the "Changge Wind Mast". Wang Ming Deng Zhi wrote in the poem "Crossing Hohhot at Night": "Return to the East at night, join the Green City, and listen to the Jinting Pavilion drums in the month." This drum is from Wenchang Pavilion. After the Taiping Army occupied Suzhou, it became the Peking University camp of the Taiping Army guarding Suzhou. 1757, during Emperor Qianlong's southern tour, Sima Lin Liangquan of Suzhou Prefecture praised the "Changge Wind Mast" of Wenchang Pavilion in Hushuguan, and drank wine and sang songs with local literati, praising the eight beautiful scenery of Hushuguan, and the rest were the pontoon jathyapple, Longhua Night Bell, fishing village sunset glow, south river elm shade, mountain spring scenery, white Song Ling and Qin Yu. Time has passed, and some beautiful scenery no longer exists; Some are still showing charming charm; Some are newly discovered tourist attractions, such as Zhenwang Mountain.
Hushuguan is located in the water network area of the south of the Yangtze River, with hilly and mountainous areas in the west, and a pleasant climate. Abundant natural resources and products. Rice, wheat, rape and cash crops are mainly planted in plain water network areas, followed by livestock, straw mats and sericulture. The western mountainous areas mainly produce flowers and fruits, tea, seedlings and sericulture. Among them, sericulture and straw mat production have a history of nearly two thousand years. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, with the joint efforts of Zhang Kongzhao, Zheng Pijiang, Shao, Fei He and others, high-quality and low-toxicity silkworm eggs were cultivated and popularized throughout the country. Straw mat production is one of the four major producing areas in China. Historically, the straw mat in Hushuguan was once used as a tribute for the emperor to enjoy, and it was called "tribute mat". By the 1990s, the total output of grain and oil had reached 32,700 tons. Xinmin nursery's seedlings are exported overseas. The reserves of kaolin and tantalum-niobium ore in Yangshan area are one of the largest mineral resources in China.
Before the Ming Dynasty, Hushuguan was already a "Wuzhong Town". At that time, inspection departments and tax authorities were set up, and "one place and two customs clearance" was established. The economy is very prosperous. "It is a place where goods from fourteen provinces gather, and thousands of merchant ships come and go every day." It became a commodity distribution center in Jiangnan after Kangxi's "opening to the outside world". People call Hushuguan a "living pier".
Modern industry developed earlier. Since 19 19, there have been enterprises in papermaking, power supply, silk reeling and silk weaving. There were more than 50 industrial enterprises before 1949. 1949 after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the economy developed rapidly, and industries such as metallurgy, building materials, papermaking, textiles, chemicals, ceramics and food machinery were formed. 1986 was listed as the first batch of industrial satellite towns in Jiangsu province. By 1999, more than 60 individual-scale enterprises of provinces (ministries), cities, counties, towns, villages, foreign-funded and private enterprises 10 have been formed, involving10 industry categories, with more than 1,000 products and a total industrial output value of 2.964 billion yuan. Since the 20th century, new building materials, precision machinery, photoelectric information, fine chemicals and plastic products have been added. In 2003, the regional GDP was 654.38+0.45 billion yuan, the industrial sales was 4.24 billion yuan, the total output value of the tertiary industry was 470 million yuan, the export of self-owned products was 465.438+0 million yuan, and 365.438+0 foreign investment projects were introduced, with a total investment of 290 million US dollars and a registered capital of 654.38 billion US dollars. 98 private projects were introduced with a total investment of 2.6 billion yuan.
According to the ancient history records and folklore of Hushuguan, there are allusions such as "Fu Tea eats rice during the day", "Gongsun Sheng is summoned by Fu Tea in mid-air", "White Dragon Maid Xiaoxiangzi" and "Meng Jiangnv goes through the customs". Famous historical figures such as Wang Hong, Fan Chengda, Shen Zhou, Shu Yuan (son), Wang Duo, Wang, etc. There are many poems and cliff carvings. These are precious historical and cultural heritages.