Dani Town is called Xinghua Village in the south of the Yangtze River. Since ancient times, merchants have gathered in Da Nei Town, which is known as "Little Hankou". Ouchi has always been an important town in Huguang, Jingchu and Tianjin. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, commerce and trade were developed and water transportation was famous. It used to be "Nine streets are full of passengers, and five miles are full of lights."

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, ouchi was an important wharf on the Yangtze River and a commercial town on the Jingxiang ancient road. During the Republic of China, it was the water transportation hub of Hunan and Hubei provinces and the land link between Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain. Ouchi Town is the regional commercial logistics center in the south of Jingzhou and the traffic artery of Hunan and Hubei, where the "Eight Big Companies" in Shishou County are located.

Shishou county records 1.924, with a permanent population of more than 30,000 people and more than 2,000 registered shops, including 55 Jiatou shops, 62 department stores, 5 grocery stores 1.05, 40 coarse goods stores 1.40, more than 200 flower shops and 90 grain stores. There are 30 slaughterhouses, more than 250 restaurants and teahouses, 10 banks and 760 dental shops, with more than 1000 employees. There are more than 50 factories and workshops, mainly engaged in wine making, textile, leather, hardware processing, bamboo and wood processing, etc. Handicraft industry, especially wine making, has a long history (more than 1000 years), large scale (dozens of pits) and wide sales (marketing in Hunan, Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang).

There are more than 200 ships moored in the port, and more than 200 people are picking and selling them five miles away. Every day, the cargo entering and leaving Da Nei Port reaches as much as 20,000 tons. There are more than a dozen industrialists, industrialists and rich people in the town. Famous industrialists include Peng Quanmei, Xiao Jufeng, Lv Hengtai, Cai Yuping, Meng Zizhong, Xu Xia and Ding Jintang. The registered capital is tens of millions of silver dollars.

1938 Japan occupied the lotus pond. The Japanese army fought fiercely with the garrison headquarters, the ninth theater of the National Army guarding Ouchi, the 53rd Kuomintang Army/KOOC-0/30 Division and the 44th Army/KOOC-0//KOOC-0/6 Division. The Japanese dropped bombs and sank two warships and five merchant ships moored in the Inner Harbour. The "Five Vertical Streets, Four Horizontal Streets and Nine Streets" in the whole ouchi town were in ruins, and all walks of life were attacked by gunfire. Stones in Gu Lou.