Dongdangyu Village is located 15 kilometers southeast of Laicheng and 8 kilometers west of Yanzhuang Town. To the southwest is Zhongdangyu Village, to the northwest is Mutoushan Village, and to the east is Beiguanzhuang Village. There are currently 258 households with a population of 758, and the per capita cultivated land is 300 square meters.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, people surnamed Zhu moved here to build a village and named it Zhuquanzhuang. Because it is surrounded by mountains, dense forests, and has no road to pass through, it was once named Block Valley, and later was pronounced as Dang Valley. Because the three villages have the same name, this village is located in the east, so it is named Dongdangyu. There are currently nine surnames in the village: Li, Wang, Dong, Huang, Duan, Shang, Liu, Feng, and Zhang. Most of them have the surname Li. The clans are united, friendly, and live in harmony regardless of whether they are rich or poor.
At the beginning of the Republic of China, it was under the jurisdiction of Hongbuling Township; it was returned to Lantou Township in 1956; it was returned to Yanzhuang People's Commune in 1958; it was returned to Yanzhuang Office in 1984; and it has been under Yanzhuang Town since 1985.
If you want to be rich, build roads first. In order to develop the economy, villagers voluntarily went to work, blasted and cut rocks, and built three motor vehicle roads. It opened to traffic with Xidangyu in 1976, with Muoshan Village in 1980, and with Zhuangyuan in 1981. In 1995, the Yanzhuang Town People's Government organized the construction of Yandang asphalt road to the east of the village. The villagers' means of transportation currently include 18 tractors, 5 tricycles, two cars, 3 taxis, and 56 motorcycles.
Before 1958, Dongdangyu Village was seriously short of water. People and animals have to go to Lantou, Liuqiaoyu, Baimayu and Xidangyu to pick up water. In the event of a severe drought, water shortage is worse than food shortage. Villagers cherish water as oil and treat water as life. The villagers dug 4 wells manually, all with small amounts of water. In 1968, under the leadership of then secretary Li Shunshi, all the villagers came together to build an underground storage tank 20 meters long, 13 meters wide, and 7 meters deep to store spring water in summer for livestock water and irrigation nearby. farmland. In 1970, with the support of superiors, a deep well was drilled south of the ancient well in the west of the village, ending the history of fetching water from the village. From 1973 to 1975, the villagers dug a large well, built a 100-meter-long, 7-meter-high water pumping station in the south of the village, and built a 500-meter canal. It was originally intended to be used for irrigating farmland, but due to limited water resources, it could not be used. Later, the water pumping station collapsed and the water channel was destroyed. In 1994, villagers raised funds to drill a deep well in the east of the village. On May 1, 1999, villagers received tap water. In 2000, a pond was built at the foot of Nanshan Mountain and 600 meters of pipelines were laid, laying the foundation for changing the villagers' planting structure.
Since 1979, the village has successively opened a distribution point, a barber shop, a mutton soup restaurant, a flower mill, a noodle mill, a steamed bun mill, a purchase and sale point for agricultural and sideline products, clothing cutting, mechanical and electrical welding, and slaughtering. points, cement products factory, hollow brick factory. Seasonal family side jobs include rice dumplings and Lantern Festival. In 1995, the villagers dug rocks into the mountains and built four gravel factories, which promoted economic development and became the economic backbone of the villagers. Li Fuquan, a talented person in the village, established a construction company in 1993, and Li Fuxin has been contracting projects in other places since 1996. They arrange more than 100 surplus labor every year, driving the development of the surrounding economy.
Although Dongdangyu Village is located in a mountainous area, it established cultural and educational undertakings earlier. In 1931, a private school was established in the village. It was later renamed a public school and Li Ren was appointed as a teacher. It was discontinued two years later. In 1957, the cowshed was demolished and four classrooms and an office were built in the west of the village, ending the history of going to school in the village. In June 1984, Dangyu United Primary School was built in the south of the village from the east, middle and west Sandangyu areas to accommodate students from Sandangyu, Mutoushan and Qiujiawu. In 1997, Zhang Hanren, a villager in Xidangyu, donated money to build a tap water tower, which completely solved the school's water problem. The school fully implements the party's education policy and implements quality education. In 2000, the Gangcheng District People's Government approved the school as a district-level standardized school. From the restoration of the college entrance examination system in 1979 to 2002, the village admitted 22 college and technical secondary school students.
On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 1975, electricity was supplied to the village. As of 2002, every household has a TV, 60% of which are color TVs; 40% of households have purchased VCDs; and 117 telephones have been installed in the village.
The villagers of Dongdangyu have a glorious revolutionary tradition since ancient times. During the Anti-Japanese War, Li Fuchen and Wang Yujie died heroically. During the Liberation War, Li Pushi and Li Tian died for the country.
Today, the people of Dongdangyu Village are carrying forward the spirit of the Revolutionary War and working hard to build their own home.
*Data comes from the website of Laiwu Municipal People's Government
Near Dongdangyu Village are Qishan Provincial Forest Park, Wenyuan Scenic Area, Gangcheng Dawenhe National Wetland Park, Tourist attractions such as the Shandong Ingenious Redwood Museum and Huashan National Forest Park have Laiwu chicken legs with green onions, Laiwu black goat, Laiwu garlic, Laiwu pepper, fried sweet-scented osmanthus meat and other specialties.