There is a pond in the northeast of town, full of lotus roots, and a carved lotus stands in the middle, which is as big as a round table, slim and realistic, and looks unique on a moonlit night. Legend has it that there are jewels hidden in the stone lotus, which makes it rise and fall with the fluctuation of water. Its charm is strange and secret, which makes people daydream and shows that cadres are upright and upright. The history of the Lotus Pond can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, with a history of 1800 years. It is the birthplace of Linghu Bo of Chu Xiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When I was a teenager, I took refuge in a temple here. In 72 AD (Yongping 65,438+05 in the Eastern Han Dynasty), it was called Xiang.
From 6 18 to 626 (Tang Wude), there were markets and merchants in the lotus pond. There are also many folk legends, such as the goddess Tashan, Bao Wupen, and the battle with the Lotus Pond Pass. In addition, the Ming Mausoleum Palace, Zhenwu Temple, Yuanfeng Temple and other historical sites were later destroyed by soldiers. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu Zibo was asked by Chu Xiang to thank his parents and temple owners for their kindness. Wenfeng Pagoda, built on Tazi Mountain, was destroyed by the Cultural Revolution in August 1966 and rebuilt in August 1998. So on March 15 every year, the masses spontaneously organize Linghushan Temple Fair to burn incense and make wishes to express their piety, with a passenger flow of about100000. According to the idea of "strong town by industry, rich town by agriculture and prosperous town by tourism", Outang Town has promoted its development, and the old revolutionary base area has changed from cocoon to become a butterfly. The industrial economy has grown from scratch, and the total economic output has steadily increased. Since 2 1 century, this town has been a key supported town in the whole province and a strong economic town in Chuzhou.
In 20 10, the introduced capital reached 339 million yuan, and the profit and tax160,000 yuan. In 20 10, the town's GDP reached 500 million yuan, and the total industrial output value reached 654.38+79 million yuan, an increase of 95. 1% over 2006. The infrastructure has changed from weak to strong, with a total investment of more than RMB100,000 to implement the "four modernizations" project such as greening, lighting, purification and beautification of the market town, and the market town has taken on a new look. Peanut processing, large-scale farming and business tourism have become the "troika" for the economic development of Outang. The peanut industry has become bigger and stronger, forming a climate of "buying the whole country and selling the whole country", establishing the largest peanut trading market in eastern Anhui and the largest peanut distribution center in Jianghuai area.
The town has high-quality agricultural products such as "Jikaiyu", "Hu Ling Tower", "Lotus Fruit" and "awl mountain", which are exported to Zhejiang, Shandong and other places.
Relying on Linghu Mountain. Unique green tourism resources, such as Xinji Lake and Xijiang River in Lang Feng, and martyrs' cemetery with red tourism resources, develop tourism economy. Linghushan Temple Fair has 300,000 visitors. Outang Mosque was founded in the early Qing Dynasty. There are 256 Muslim households 1 108, including the Hui villagers' group in Huangfengdian, Chuzhou City and the Hui people in Renhe Township, all under the management of the Outang Mosque. Lianhuachi Mosque has a long history in the eastern part of Zeng civilization. 1938, when Japan invaded China, please needle temple was burned into ruins. During the period of Kuomintang rule, ethnic minorities were discriminated against and even less concerned about their customs and habits. Villagers raised funds to build two thatched houses as main halls, and asked the imam to maintain religious activities. After liberation, Party committees and governments at all levels carried out ethnic and religious policies, strengthened national unity, cared for ethnic minorities, allocated funds to build water houses and imams in the Hall of the Great Hero, and invited imams to resume normal religious activities.
However, in the Cultural Revolution of 1966, it was used as a seal, capital and renovation, which made the mosque fragmented, and all the homesteads were occupied by random people, making the mosque without tiles above and no place below.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee implemented the ethnic policy. On the east side of the mosque, the relevant departments built two straw houses for the old villager Yang Baorong. Later, they sold them to Shanghainese and to Ling, a middle school teacher. Miss Ling wants to tear down the thatched cottage and build a tile house in the mosque. The temple management Committee and the old villagers forcibly stopped building houses. At 1986, they tried their best to raise 1300 yuan to pay Ling. Due to the poor condition of the mosque, the imam lives entirely on the Hui people's fund-raising, with only 60 yuan's living expenses every month. Eight imams were invited to go home because they could not maintain their jobs.
1988, Wang Dequn, secretary of the Party Committee of the town, and Liu Shiju, mayor of the town, led a party and government team to inspect the forest farm and planned 20 mu of land in Dayang Village as a Muslim cemetery. After the cemetery was planned, a few people in the forest farm were dissatisfied with the planned cemetery and secretly destroyed graves and cemetery monuments. After the incident, members of the temple management committee and township elders went to the town government to find Mayor Mei, then the mayor of Outang Town, reflecting the destruction of tombstones and graves. Mayor Mei immediately informed the police station that Mu Heping, the director, drove to Dayang village cadres to find out the truth of the problem, seriously criticized the parties and wrote a promise of never doing it again.
The cemetery has been solved, but the imam's housing and life can't be solved. Without imams, Muslims can't have leaders and religious activities can't be carried out. Without an imam, impermanent people can't get in or out. At the same time, weeds such as yellow reeds grow one person high in the mosque, and the dead people can't even lift gold. There was no good way to solve the practical difficulties at that time. 1998, outang credit cooperative transferred most of director Xu, Hui people and Erlongshan people. His family is very religious. Seeing this situation in the mosque, there is no imam to slaughter, and there is no imam for impermanent people to attend the funeral. They took the initiative to find the temple manager and solved some problems. They drove to Erlong Township and invited Imam Xu, who didn't care about the reward and was very enthusiastic.
After Imam Xu was in place, Huimin Village, the local government, especially under the arrangement of Fan Minggui, secretary of the Party Committee, and Ge Shenghu, director of the town civil affairs office, cared about the mosque and often distributed relief supplies to Imam to make up for the shortcomings in life.
After taking office in 2000, Zhang Zhongmei, secretary of the Party Committee, visited the mosque many times, and invited county leaders such as deputy magistrate and deputy director of the National People's Congress to visit the mosque to help contact relevant departments to solve practical problems such as funds. Dai Yong, vice mayor, personally took the land and urban construction department to demolish two buildings occupying the mosque and opened the west gate leading directly to Fu Qian Street, which was convenient for the Hui people. After the mosque was completed, he found the mayor Dai Yong, who gave him strong support. He really needs people and money.
In 2004, Li Keming, secretary of the town Party Committee, took a group of party and government officials to the mosque to investigate and ask questions and ask them what difficulties they had. He asked the temple people that the road was 0/00 meters away from the Muslim cemetery/kloc-and the traffic was inconvenient, which brought inconvenience to the dead Muslims to attend funerals, walk graves and set up graves. The town party committee and the town government squeezed out 1 0,000 yuan to build a gravel road, and the road was completed, which solved the difficulties of funeral, grave sweeping and grave walking in rainy and snowy weather and did a practical thing for Muslims in the mosque.
In 2005, under the struggle and coordination of Mei Junhua, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the county party committee and director of the Bureau of Religious Affairs, the Provincial Ethnic Affairs Committee allocated 1 10,000 yuan to redeem seven tile houses built by the former Imam Chang Jiayu and the rural old Liang at the mosque homestead. At present, there are 15 rooms in the mosque, that is, three rooms, one kitchen, one room and three imams. Seven vacant rooms are rented to students as the income of the mosque. There are electric fans in the hall and the imam's house, bath tyrants in the water room, running water, telephones, cement roads, two wells in the yard, and an inscription on the reconstruction of the mosque. On Eid al-Fitr in 2004, the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, the United Front Work Department of the county, the Religious Affairs Bureau, the local Party committee and government, the village branch, the Outang Middle School, the Ouxiao Primary School and the ethnic primary school went to the mosque to participate in Eid al-Fitr, and the county TV station also filmed it. The imam's life has basically been solved and religious activities have been carried out normally.
With the care and strong support of the Party Committee and government of Outang Town, the county people's committee and the county religious affairs bureau, a group of people in the management committee of Outang Temple put unity and stability first, and made several tangible and profitable things for the Hui people sincerely. In order to further improve the living environment of the Hui elderly, the temple plans to use seven vacant rooms to open a home for the Hui elderly to meet the needs of the Hui elderly.