The history and culture of Shangyuan Temple

Historically and culturally, Yuanguan Town is an ancient trading town with a long history. It was originally named Nanlebao. It was founded 380 years ago on the initiative of Zhang Fenghe, a Jinshi from the city and governor of Jiangxi during the Tianqi Period of the Ming Dynasty (1621 AD). history. There is an ancient town of Ming and Qing architectural groups existing in the town. The ancient town is 450 meters wide from east to west and 480 meters long from north to south, with a total area of ??about 216,000 square meters. The ancient town has four distinct streets, east, west, south and north, with even distribution and neat square pavilions. The four surnames of Yu, Heng, Shen and Qu are mainly inhabited. It once gave birth to the revolutionary hero Liu Bingjun, the former vice president of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China Gong Fengchun, and many local writers, dramatists, calligraphers, and painters. It once attracted the Five Pecks of Rice Sect Zhang Lu and the first Italian Catholic Patriarch Anting Prime Minister and French Catholic Bishop Fang Dewang. In December 1932, Marshal Xu Xiangqian led the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army through here. The town has beautiful natural scenery and simple folk customs, making it the best place for tourism, investment and development. The specialty "Shangyuan Guan Brand" red tofu has long been famous.