Xinhua Satellite TV Hunan News (Editor Zhang Chengyun Correspondent Yan Shixian) reported:
A few days ago, the first HuxiangyangLian Conference was held in Shiyan Lake, Changsha, and Pingshang Town, Xinshao County, was awarded the honorary title of the first batch of "Hunan Province's Yanglian Town", which is the only one in Shaoyang City and one of the four in the province. Zhou Leling, a native of Xinshaoping, a senior member of the China Yuelian Society, an inheritor of Chinese poetry culture, and a well-known senior planning expert, won the honorary title of "Hunan Provincial Couplet Cultural Inheritor". This marks that our town has taken another big step forward in building a Cultural Town, a Kangshou Cultural Town, and a Rural Tourism Town.
The venue of the first Huxiangyao Federation Conference
Plaques were awarded on site
Zhou Leling took a group photo with Professor Yu Dequan, a Taidou of the Chinese Yang Lianjia
Zhou Leling took a group photo with Chairman Tan Tan, a famous writer in China
Xinshao County is the heart of Hunan and the hometown of Chinese poetry, and the whole family of Che Wanyu, the author of Hanlin and "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" in the Qing Dynasty, took refuge in Chetang Village, Yingguang Township, Xinshao. Pingshang Town, known as Datong in ancient times, is a national key town, a town of culture and education, and a cultural tourism town with Huxiang style. CCTV has repeatedly reported on Pingshang Town, where changshou Qingshui Village and Shaoyang North Station of the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway are located. Zhang Gan, a teacher and people's educator of Chairman Mao Zedong, the founding leader of the People's Republic of China; Zhou Shuchuan, one of the founders of Huxiang Xinxue, an elder of the League Association, and the founder of the Great Classmate Hall; Xie Bingying, a famous contemporary female writer; Li Baoyi, former editor-in-chief of the "Ta Kung Pao," Tang Xing, a lieutenant general of the Kuomintang and general of the Hunan Peaceful Liberation Uprising, and lieutenant general of the army; Xie Guanyi, mayor of Keelung City; General Huang Mingkai, former deputy commander of the Hunan Provincial Military Region; and famous entrepreneurs Liu Zuchang, Yan Shengfan, and Xiao Yongjian, were all born here.
Pingshang Town
Here, the Xiangmeishan culture and Datong culture have a long history, and the poetry culture of Yanglian has a profound cultural heritage, and was once known as the "Datong Empire". There are more than 110 years of famous schools in the territory, the New Shao No. 2 Middle School, the Zhoujia Compound of the National Key Traditional Village, the Zhang Clan Ancestral Hall and zhang gan Memorial Hall of the Shaoyang City Cultural Relics Key Protection Unit, the Zhou Clan Ancestral Hall, and the Yan Clan Ancestral Hall. In 2017, Qingshui Village was rated as a national ecological and cultural village, a national tourism poverty alleviation key village, a beautiful rural construction demonstration village in Hunan Province, a tourism poverty alleviation demonstration village in Hunan Province, and one of the top ten peaceful villages in Hunan Province, and was included in the fifth batch of Chinese traditional villages in December 2018. Xiaohe Village in the northern foothills of Jinlong Mountain is a state grid Hunan electric power village and a famous summer resort in Xiangzhong. Datong Fudi Ecological Science and Technology Park and the health care hospital under construction are well-known health care bases in Xiangzhong.
Zhoujia compound, a key traditional village in China
Shaoyang City Cultural Relics Key Protection Unit Zhang Clan Ancestral Hall
Pingshang Town is known for its cultural hometown, talents, and health tourism, and has a profound cultural heritage, with hundreds of members of literary and art groups such as poetry, calligraphy and painting at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels. In recent years, the party committee and government of Pingshang Town have concentrated on implementing the strategy of rural revitalization, attaching great importance to cultural undertakings and the construction of rural customs and civilization. In particular, the "Hunan Province Yanglian Cultural Town (Town)" Creation Working Committee of Pingshang Town, Xinshao County was specially established, and a work plan for the creation of the Town of Yuelian Culture was formulated, and it was committed to building a town with cultural characteristics in Hunan and even the whole country. At the same time, with the help of the "Hunan Winter Rural Tourism Cultural Festival", the "Village of Poetry Union" was created in Qingshui Village, calling on all organs, village departments and schools in the town to carry out the activities of creation and hanging of the poetry association, actively promoting the teaching work of the campus poetry association, establishing the teaching position of the poetry federation, and actively carrying out various, sound and colorful, wonderful poetry and calligraphy and painting collection and creation activities and cultural tourism activities.
Nowadays, the Pingshang Town Poetry Association and calligraphy, painting and photography creation, with rural tourism, precision poverty alleviation, and project construction, industrial development organic combination, poetry union literary and artistic creation close to the public, close to life, and serve the three rural areas.
Written by: Yan Shixian
Review: Lee Kim-hung