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The origin of the name of Zhangshu City comes from the ancient legend of "Nie You shooting a deer", so there is also the saying of "Lujiang". It is listed as one of the four famous towns in Jiangxi Province along with Jingdezhen, the "Porcelain Capital". In the Ming Dynasty, it was one of the 33 major industrial and commercial towns in the country.

Zhangshu City is located in the middle of Jiangxi Province, in the middle reaches of the Gan River, on the southern edge of the Poyang Lake Plain, 89 kilometers north of the provincial capital Nanchang. Ganjiang River and Yuan River converge here, and Zhangshu Port is the second largest port on Ganjiang River. The Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Changzhang Expressway, Jiangxi-Guangdong Expressway, National Highway 105 and the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway under construction all pass through the city, and land and water transportation is convenient. Historically, it was once a boat channel between my country's Central Plains and Lingnan. It is an emerging city approved by the State Council on October 26, 1988, to be removed from a county and established as a city. The city has a total area of ??1,287 square kilometers and a population of 510,000. Zhangshu City was once known as Qingjiang County in history and is one of the four ancient towns in Jiangxi. It is well-known for its unique production, processing, processing and operation of medicinal materials. It enjoys the reputation of "the medicine is not as good as the camphor tree, and the medicine is not as effective as the camphor tree". It is my country's famous "Medicine Capital of the South".

China’s Medicine Capital—Zhangshu

Zhangshu’s pharmaceutical industry has a long history and is the largest distribution center for medicine villages in the history of our country, with a history of more than 1,700 years. Since ancient times, there has been a reputation that "the medicine cannot reach the camphor tree, but the medicine cannot cure the camphor tree." Gezao Mountain on the outskirts of the town is a natural medicinal field, stretching for more than 200 miles, with lush vegetation and rich in various medicinal materials, including more than 100 species of animal, plant and mineral medicinal materials. As early as the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoists Zhang Daoling, Ge Xianweng and others practiced here. While they were superstitious and preached to drive away evil spirits, they also collected herbs, made elixirs to cure diseases, and taught cooking techniques. Later, Ge Hong, the grandson of Ge family, summarized his medical practice experience and wrote "Be Prepared for Emergency Prescriptions in Time", which has been passed down to the world. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the camphor tree medicine industry became increasingly developed, and the number of people collecting and selling medicines increased day by day. Pharmacy shops, medicinal material shops, and branches gradually emerged and expanded to other provinces. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, a Sanhuang Palace (namely Yaowang Temple) was built here. Every April 28th of the lunar calendar, the birthday of Sun Simiao, a famous doctor of the Tang Dynasty, a trading place was set up next to the temple. Drug dealers from all over the country gathered here. to trade. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 200 traditional Chinese medicine shops in Zhangshu. At the same time, drug dealers from other provinces also came here to set up medicine shops, and even a hometown association was established. This gradually turned into a medicinal materials distribution center. There are still many well-preserved alchemy wells, medicine washing pools, ancient temples, medicine temples and other scenic spots in the territory. The Zhangshu people have collected and processed Chinese medicinal materials for generations and have mastered many secret methods. Whether they are frying, soaking, soaking, roasting, baking, drying, cutting and storing, they are all unique. The tablets cut by outstanding pharmacists are "as thin as paper, can be blown, have neat cross-sections and beautiful shapes", and have excellent color, aroma, shape, taste and effect. Zhangshu’s pharmacists, pharmacists, and drug dealers travel to medicinal material producing areas across the country to collect, purchase, and ship high-quality medicinal raw materials for processing, resulting in a complete range of Zhangshu’s medicinal materials with excellent texture. Therefore, camphor tree has become the national center for the production, processing, processing and operation of traditional Chinese medicinal materials.

The formation of the "Medicine Capital" is inseparable from its superior geographical conditions and developed waterway transportation. It is also rich in medicinal materials and is skilled in the cultivation, processing, distribution and storage of medicinal materials. There are more than 200 kinds of natural medicinal materials in Gezao Mountain. The famous Chinese and foreign Trifoliate Aurantii kettle and Trifoliate Aurantium are one of the local specialties. The local camphor tree has very strict requirements on the quality of medicinal materials. The medicinal materials must be pure and the processing of the slices must be meticulous. Nowadays, the "Medicine King Temple Fair" in the past dynasties has developed into an annual national medicinal material exchange conference. Once the invitations are sent out every year, pharmaceutical colleagues from Hong Kong, Singapore and other provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country flock to the event. At that time, the camphor tree will become the world of medicine and the ocean of medicine. On the vast square outside the east gate of the medicine capital, a magnificent building complex dedicated to trading activities has risen. It covers a total area of ??more than 15,000 square meters and can accommodate more than 10,000 people for trading activities at the same time.

Zhangshu places of interest

The long history has left many places of interest in Zhangshu City. There are 122 ancient ruins discovered in the city, ranking first in Jiangxi Province, including The Acropolis was built 4,500 years ago. Neolithic sites such as Fancheng and Shang Dynasty sites in Wucheng. A number of stone tools, pottery, porcelain, bronzes, calligraphy and paintings, epigraphy and other treasures unearthed from ancient ruins are known as "national treasures".

There are also provincial-level key cultural relics protection units such as the Taiping Monument built in the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Gezaoshan Mingshui Bridge built in the Song Dynasty. Gezao Mountain is 20 kilometers away from the city. It is one of the three famous Taoist mountains in the country. Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty once awarded it the title of "The Thirty-third Blessed Place in the World". Ancient Chinese celebrities such as Zhu Xi and Wen Tianxiang left famous sayings here.

Taoist holy land - Gezao Mountain

Gezao Mountain is located on the east bank of Ganjiang River, 20 kilometers southeast of Zhangshu City. It stretches for more than 200 miles. Because of its "shape like a pavilion and color like Soap" is named after it. It is said that the Taoist scholar Ge Xuan once cultivated and understood Taoism here, and then traveled around the world. Finally, he returned to Gezao Mountain and built Woyun Temple on the side of Camel Peak. . After he took the elixir and "ascended", he was revered as the "Tai Chi Immortal" by Taoism. Ge Xuan's "immortal traces" made Gezao Mountain a scenic spot, and Taoists gathered here. Yang Shen of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote in "Gezao Mountain Jingde Guan Ji" that there were 500 Taoists and 1,500 houses, which shows the grand occasion at that time.

There are hundreds of mountains and mountains in Gezao, and relics of the Immortal Way can be found everywhere. Camel Peak is the place where Ge Xuan's Tao hides elixirs. Taiji Peak is where Jade Girl trims her mane, and Xikeng Guibi Peak is where Zhang Daoling practices and has Zhang Tianshi Altar. The sword split stone, double carp gate, Fengmen, Tiantian Gate, Danjing and other places are all beautiful and strange, and coupled with the beautiful myths and legends, they are even more magical. On the cliff at the entrance of Lingyunfeng Gorge, there is a stone arch bridge called Mingshui Bridge. It was built in the first year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1111). After more than 800 years of wind and rain, the bridge arches are still intact.

Wucheng Shang Dynasty Ruins

It is located in Wucheng Village, a mountain front 44 kilometers southwest of Zhangshu City, on the hilly slopes of the upper reaches of Xiaojiang River. It is the first large-scale Shang Dynasty cultural site discovered in Jiangnan. The archaeological community calls it "Wucheng Culture". The center of the ruins is in Tucheng, Wucheng Village. When the reservoir was being built in 1973, it was discovered by migrant workers. After six excavations, the area reached 613,000 square meters, and 2 house foundations, 55 ash pits and kilns, and 16 tombs were found. There were 2 pottery kilns, and more than 900 relatively complete pieces of stone tools, bronze wares, jade wares, ivory carvings, etc. were unearthed. The discovery of these relics and relics provides important physical information for exploring the Shang and Zhou bronze culture in Jiangxi. The Zhangshu City Museum displays some objects and information for visitors to visit. Accompanying the Wucheng ruins is the largest reservoir in Zhangshu City - Wucheng Reservoir. The reservoir covers an area of ??nearly 10 square kilometers and is a major tourist attraction in Zhangshu City! Boating on the Wucheng Reservoir, you can appreciate the scenery of Jiangnan and think about the ancient culture of Wucheng for thousands of years...

Cinnamomum camphor has been known as the "wine town" since ancient times, because of its "clear, fragrant, mellow, and "Site" wine, named after the four characteristics of "toning up", is one of the specialties of camphor tree and originated from the famous local wine in the Song Dynasty. Premier Zhou Enlai once gifted it with the words "pure fragrance, endless aftertaste", and won the gold medal at the first Beijing International Expo in July 1988.

Zhangshu has a long history of growing citrus. It has been designated as a key citrus production city in the province and one of the 85 citrus production bases in the country. Camphor tree red oranges are famous throughout the province for their bright color, sweet taste, thin skin and few cores, and are sold at home and abroad