Debao County has jurisdiction over 185 village (community) committees in 12 townships (towns) including Chengguan and Du 'an. There are 34 thousand people in the county. The total area is 2575 square kilometers. Among them, the rocky mountain area accounts for 7%, and there are 9 ethnic minorities living in the territory, including Zhuang, Han and Yao, with the population of Zhuang accounting for 98%.

Debao Qin belongs to Xiang County, Jin County belongs to Xingguo County, Tang County belongs to Abandoned Frozen State, Song Jian Zhen 'an Cave, Yuan Zhen 'an Road, Ming Dynasty Zhen 'an Tufu, in the second year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1663), it was changed to Zhen 'an Mansion, and in the fourth year of Qing Emperor Qianlong (1739), Tianbao County was established, which was the governing land of 18 prefectures in Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty. In August 1951, Jingde County and Tianbao County merged, and each got its name.

Debao County borders Tiandong County and tiandeng in the east, Jingxi County in the west and Tianyang County and Youjiang District in the north. The Tropic of Cancer runs through Zurong, Najia, Batou, Jingde and other towns and villages in this county. County People's Government is located in Chengguan Town, 129 kilometers away from Baise Municipal Government, and it is the throat artery connecting Jingxi, Napo County and Baise Youjiang Valley in the border areas.

mineral resources

Debao county is rich in natural resources, and it is a hot spot waiting for investment and development. According to geological exploration, there are more than 2 kinds of minerals in China, such as bauxite, copper, gold, iron, coal, manganese, phosphate, antimony, crystal, barite and marble. Among them, the copper reserves are 1.78 million tons, and the prospective bauxite reserves are more than 45 million tons. It is an important alumina development base in China and even in Asia.

hydropower resources

Debao is very rich in water resources, with theoretical reserves of 135,4 kilowatts and exploitable capacity of 68,8 kilowatts, and 42, kilowatts have been developed and utilized at present. Small hydropower resources are mainly developed by investors from Zhejiang, Guangdong and Nanning.

Special production

There are many famous and excellent agricultural products in Debao. Illicium verum and fennel oil forests have been planted for tens of thousands of years, and the existing forest land is 34, mu. Illicium verum, also known as aniseed, is the fruit of Illicium verum, so it is called Illicium verum because the radial fruit is octagonal. Dry Illicium verum is reddish brown, and the main component of Illicium verum is anethole volatile oil. Illicium verum has a strong aroma of hawthorn flowers, which is sweet, pungent and warm, with both fragrance and taste. It can be used as both medicine and food, and has the functions of warming yang, dispelling cold and regulating qi. It is an important spicy seasoning used in food cooking or food processing. Because of its mellow fragrance, it can remove fishy smell and promote appetite, and is a common seasoning for cooking thick dishes. Debao's geographical climate and soil conditions are suitable for the growth of Illicium verum, which has a long planting history and has been paid attention to as early as the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. At present, the county has 28, mu of star anise spice base, with a minimum annual output of 7 tons of star anise and 5 tons of anise oil, which ranks first in the country in terms of output and export, so it has the reputation of "the hometown of star anise oil".

tianbao fennel oil is a specialty of Debao county. It is made by steaming the leaves of Illicium verum. During the Republic of China, all famous ports in Hong Kong were marked with the trademark "Tianbao Brand" (that is, the original county name). There was a saying that "French perfume is not fragrant without Tianbao fennel oil". Tianbao fennel oil has the characteristics of high freezing point, good refraction, high brain content, rich fragrance and purity. It has the functions of sterilization, stomach strengthening, expelling wind, eliminating phlegm, relieving cough, treating neurasthenia, dyspepsia, scabies and other diseases. It is an important raw material for producing more than 4 kinds of medical drugs and spices, food, toothpaste, cosmetics and other processing industries. The export volume of this product accounts for 9% of Guangxi and 5% of the whole country. Products are exported to Europe, America and Southeast Asian countries.

Debao Flower Basket "Debao Flower Basket" is woven with wheat straw as the main raw material and decorated by multiple processes. Its beautiful shape, exquisite workmanship, simple and elegant, exquisite and novel, rich in local ethnic characteristics, has high ornamental value, and is the most favorite tourist handicraft for women and children. "Debao Flower Basket" is a unique national traditional hand-woven handicraft in Debao County, Guangxi. As early as the Ming Dynasty, Debao people used this treasure as a necessary gift for festivals. In the first year of Hongwu, Cen Tianbao, a local government in Zhen 'an, Guangxi, loved flower baskets as treasures and often gave them to guests. Debao gecko reptile wild animal, which looks like a gecko and is large, mostly grows in the crevices of Dashishan, and is one of the famous native products of Debao. The gecko produced in Debao is different from other places, and its chest has five toes, which is called five-claw gecko. It has medicinal functions such as benefiting qi, strengthening yang and relieving asthma. Debao County Winery uses local gecko for deep processing to produce gecko wine and gecko male testicle wine, which has rich nutritional value and fitness function.

Debao ponies Now, the ponies in Debao have gradually hatched into the third generation, which is less than 8cm in height, shorter than each other, and more promising from generation to generation, which is very popular in the international market. Pony is a rare and precious breed, which is of great value in tourism, ornamental and veterinary experiments. Pony resources have always been dominated by Chetland in Britain and Minima in the United States. In 1981, Debao pony was discovered by researchers of Chinese Academy of Sciences, which confirmed that Debao pony is one of the two major origins of pony in the world. Pony used to be a means of transportation for mountain people in this county. With the economic development and smooth traffic, farmers gradually lost interest in raising smaller and weaker ponies, and ponies gradually decreased. However, because the height of Debao pony is below 16 cm, it has a well-proportioned figure, strong limbs, good patience and adaptability, and adults can also ride it, which is comparable to the pony breeds that have long been famous in Britain and the United States. Therefore, once discovered, it has aroused the attention of many parties in society. Since China joined the WTO, foreign ponies have entered the Chinese market in succession. In May last year, in order to strengthen the conservation of characteristic resources and protect the pony resource market in China from impact, Debao Pony was listed as one of 78 national-level livestock and poultry protection varieties by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the protection fee was invested. Attach importance to the combination of natural resources and science and technology, formulate the overall optimization planning and development plan of Debao pony, and start a new mechanism to protect high-quality varieties. The Debao County Party Committee and the county government timely formulated measures to protect pony breeds, and fully implemented the project of "state-owned and privately-raised" pony breeds. By preserving 1 core groups of state-owned breeds, any form of hybridization was prohibited, and the pedigree of ponies was kept closed. At the same time, 3 natural villages in eight towns, such as Batou, which is the main producing area of ponies, are selected as key conservation areas, and pony conservation groups are established in the conservation areas, which are classified according to horses, coat color and body height, and fixed and specialized for breeding. Now, 32 ponies have been developed in this reserve. In order to ensure the efficient development of pony resources, Debao County issued a pony registration system, established a scientific and standardized pony file, and set up a pony association, which funded the purchase of horses, so that the project farmers could participate in all-round conservation and breeding work in a way of "state-owned and people-supported". The county has also continuously optimized pony resources, increased scientific and technological content, and responded to the market competition brought by foreign pony varieties with high-quality pony resources. The enthusiasm of farmers is mobilized by taking the county pony association to reward farmers for raising horses, organizing evaluation and bargaining, buying from farmers at a protective price that exceeds 1% of the local market price, and farmers who raise stallions get breeding fees after pony evaluation. They also set up a horse racing appraisal meeting, which is responsible for the race activities. Today, many farmers in the county have raised horses to get rich, and the number of ponies in the county has also grown to more than 1,. Raising horses has become a craze in the vast rural areas of Debao County.

Local Folklore

Debao County has simple people's feelings. Zhuang and Yao nationalities in the county have different customs. Rice cultivation customs include ploughing, sowing, offering sacrifices to young crops, washing and cutting tools, etc. In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, in the old days, the city gates were closed and pedestrians were forbidden. Households cooked sausages and drank wine in the fields for one day. Dietary customs include beating blood, scalding meat in baskets, blood sausage, sour meat, sour fish, dried vegetables, bamboo sticks, tofu balls, wheat, rice, pumpkin sweet wine, pumpkin chicken, golden pot rice, fried cold rice with horse, vegetable bags, pearl crisp, fried liver with glutinous rice, sweet potato kiln, peanut kiln and so on. There are some wedding customs, such as answering songs for marriage, fixing weddings, getting married and arranging weddings, and other customs, such as dividing surnames, sending seeds, crying for marriage, saying goodbye to parents, appreciating brides, and returning home to recognize the new in three dynasties. The birth customs include calming the nerves, begging for flowers, giving birth to children, full moon, one hundred days, selling flowers and hanging colors. Festivals celebrate festivals with different customs, such as New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Land Fair, Tomb Sweeping, Dragon Boat Festival, Cattle Soul, Zhongyuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, first frost, and seeing off the Kitchen King. Cattle Soul Festival is held every year in the fifth month of the lunar calendar. On this day, rural households dye five-color glutinous rice, slaughter pigs and offer sacrifices to farm cattle, and treat farm cattle with chicken and duck meat. Children take chicken and colored rice to have a picnic in the wild. Commonly known as "the soul of cattle". The Festival of Sending the Kitchen King is held on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. Families burn incense and light candles, and send the Kitchen King to heaven with wine, meat and other sacrifices. From the next day to New Year's Eve, households are forbidden to repair houses and clean the courtyard first. Social customs include: making friends in the same year, friendship, and recognizing parents. Folk song duet customs are mostly in Gewei Festival. There are 29 festivals for children, young people and the elderly in the county, which is one of the counties with the largest number of Gewei in Guangxi. From the 27th day of the first month to the 26th day of April, fighting songs, love songs, duets, and free duets are held at intervals in various places.

Cultural activities

Cultural and artistic activities in Debao County have always been quite active, and folk operas are even more colorful. The local dramas and songs and dances circulating in this county mainly include Zhuang Opera, Puppet Show, Lunlun, Shrimp Fishing Dance and Folk Songs, among which Zhuang Opera and Folk Songs are especially popular among the masses. Debao Zhuang Opera belongs to Nanlu Zhuang Opera, commonly known as "Yahai Opera" or "Ma 'ai Opera". It has strong national customs and local characteristics, and is very popular with the masses. The commonly used vocal tunes of modern Zhuang Opera are Ma 'ai tune, flat, sigh tune, happy tune, crying tune, flower picking, high-pitched tune, etc., with Ma Guhu (the main musical instrument) as the accompaniment, Tuhu and Gaoqiang. When playing, it has a harmonious color, deep and melodious, pleasing to the ear and full of national feelings. Debao folk songs are called "chanting poems" or "singing joyfully". In Zhuangjia Yaozhai, when men and women are married, labor production, festivals are celebrated, and love affairs are talked about, folk songs are often used to express happiness, joy and love. Zhuang folk songs are divided into South Road folk songs and North Road folk songs. The folk songs of Nanbei Road are all based on seven words, which are flat and rhyming. South Road folk songs are composed of four sentences, sung by two people as a group, and there are two parts in high and low voices. The folk songs sung are high-pitched, passionate, elegant and beautiful. North Road folk songs are composed of eight or ten sentences, usually sung in groups of three to seven people, with high and low voices, and the songs are majestic, stable, melodious, exciting and attractive. Folk songs have always taken the form of self-singing, duet and chorus, expressing feelings, praising good people and good deeds, attacking current abuses and exposing bad people and evil things through folk songs. In recent years, folk song competitions have been held in counties, townships and villages during the Song Fair, Spring Festival or other major festivals in various towns and villages, attracting thousands of listeners and being very popular with the masses.

mass sports

Debao county is a traditional county advocating sports. Popular mass sports activities in rural areas are mainly basketball, top, chicken comb and lion dance, especially basketball. During the Republic of China, Debao County (then Tianbao County) teamed up to participate in the basketball game in the sixth district of Guangxi and won the first place. After liberation, basketball activities in urban and rural areas in Debao County became more active. Basketball courts were built in the location of the Central Primary School and in the larger natural villages, and there were men's and women's basketball teams in the larger villages. During leisure time, the villages and villages exchanged visits. Every major festival, all towns and villages hold basketball games. In addition, the primary and secondary schools in the county also hold the "Germination Cup" basketball match for primary school students and middle school students every year. In the past two years, it is unprecedented for rural people in the county to hold basketball games by using the traditional Gewei Festival. All the 18 towns and villages in the county have their own traditional Gewei Festival, and the time distribution of each town's Gewei Festival is different. Whenever the Gewei Festival, the nearby towns and villages will send their own town's basketball team and folk song team to join in, and more than 1 teams will participate in each game. There is a popular saying in rural areas to describe the grand occasion of Debao basketball, "The whistle keeps going, the competition keeps going, and the friendship keeps going". Most of the funds for the basketball match in Gewei Festival are raised by the masses themselves, and there are also subsidies from towns and departments. Generally, it lasts for 3-5 days, with less than 1, spectators and more than 5, people. In October 23, Debao County organized a delegation to participate in the city's "Ten Thousand" cultural and sports activities and won the first prize in the men's basketball competition, which was praised by the city leaders. Autonomous Region Sports Bureau and Guangxi Sports Lottery Center also fully affirmed the development of rural basketball in Debao County, and decided to hold a county-wide rural basketball league tournament in Debao every year from 24. This year's "China Sports Lottery Cup" rural village-level basketball league in Debao County is the largest rural village-level basketball league in Debao so far.

Tourist attractions

There are green clouds and mountains, clear waters, majestic sky and flowing spring, as well as newly-built tourist attractions such as Liuyin, West Lake Huilan, Xiangshui Waterfall, Tiger Cave, Jixingqi Cave and Baiyue Slope, which represents the Baiyue nationality, attracting many poets and writers.

The Zhuang dialect of Yunshan Mountain is called "Zhushan", which means jewelry. It and Xishan Mountain, which stands 3 kilometers west of the county seat, are sister mountains. It is said that the two sisters came all the way from Yunnan to enjoy the scenery. When my sister came to Xiaoxihu, when she saw the charming scenery there, she turned it into today's Xishan, which is one of the ten scenic spots in Debao, and was named "Xishan Sunset". My sister came to Debao County today, and when she looked back at her sister, she concentrated on it. It became today's Duxiufeng, one of the ten scenic spots in Debao, and it was called "Duxiufeng", also known as Zhushan, which is located in the north of the county, and it is a beautiful place for Yunshan. The peak is like a green bamboo shoot, and the word "Yunshan" is engraved on the cliff on the mountainside, with the word "Peiyue" under it, and the handwriting is vigorous. Duxiufeng Mountain is exquisite in rocks, quiet and beautiful in nature, with cracks in the stone, beautiful trees of ancient banyan and lush in all seasons. Just south of the peak foot, there is a natural cave called Yuxiuyan. From this cave, walk about a hundred steps to the left, and there are stone steps straight up to Ciyun Cave, where Li Zhenren Pavilion and Guanyin Pavilion are built. Twenty steps down from Ciyun Cave along the stone steps, there is a pavilion on the right called Zixia Pavilion, and there is a couplet behind the pavilion: "On the famous Beidou star, poetry is in the misty rain in Qian Shan." In 29, the Zixia Pavilion was bombed by a Japanese plane, so the pavilion climbed more than 2 steps to the left, and there was a natural cave called Liuyun Cave. Suddenly, there was another heaven and earth in the cave, and out of the hole, leaning against the cliff, there was a palace pavilion named Zhong Ling Pavilion. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Emperor Guan and Zhuge Wuhou were worshipped here. There is a bronze bell of Ming Dynasty and an iron bell of Qing Dynasty hanging in the pavilion. On the right side of Zhong Ling Pavilion is the Eight Immortals Palace, which is the largest palace pavilion of Duxiufeng. Standing here, overlooking the railing, there are mountains and mountains in the distance, with patchwork cottages and buildings at the foot, surrounded by water, which makes people intoxicated with poetry and painting. Stepping down from the right side of the Eight Immortals Palace, there is a small natural cave called the Ancient Buddha Cave, which is a place to worship the longevity of Samsung. During the Qing Dynasty, there were 8 palaces of various styles, 3 existing ones and 1 rebuilt one. There were 33 poems and inscriptions by famous people in past dynasties, including 1 in the Ming Dynasty, 3 in the Qing Dynasty and 2 after liberation. Zhao Yi, a famous writer, poet and historian in the Qing Dynasty, wrote the poem "Song of the Ancient Banyan Tree in Duxiu Mountain", saying, "Xiushan has no inch of land, but there are banyan trees on it. Duh, Togan, what a surprise! Don't plant soil with stones ",praise the beautiful scenery of Duxiu Peak.

Jianshui, also known as "Jianshui Huihui", comes from the foot of Jianshan Mountain in Sanhe Village, Du 'an Township. Its river bed is like a whirlpool, and the water quality is as white as a mirror. Its main scenic spots are Jian 'aitang (now Sanhe Power Station), Xiaoxihu Lake and Xiangshui Waterfall. Zhao Yi once wrote a poem "Jian 'aitang Waterfall", which said, "It's a pity that it is far away from home, and it doesn't compete with the fame of the rooftop." It praised the amazing scenery of Jian River Waterfall. The beach of Xiangshui Waterfall is more than 4 meters long, with four waterfalls, about 3 meters wide and about 1 meters apart. On both sides of the beach, the rice fields are orderly and the rocky beaches are covered with cleanliness.

Quqiao Liu Yin is commonly known as Jiuqu Bridge. Jian River flows slowly through the valleys of Qian Shan. Form a big detour to the east of Debao County.