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The name of the village Qingyang is originally related to Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin

The founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin set the capital of the "Chenqiao Mutiny" in Bianliang, Kaifeng, and started the great cause of the Song Dynasty's unification of the country. From the side, this has nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyin's talent strategy. Cherishing and loving talents is one of the indispensable cornerstones of his governance.

According to historical records, Miao Guangyi, an aide who once assisted Zhao Kuangyin with meritorious service, retired and lived on the bank of Zaoshengyuan, Ningxian County, Gansu Province in the northwest. After Miao Guangyi retired, the government was in chaos for a time. Zhao Kuangyin was thirsty for talents and decided to visit Miao Guangyi in person and ask him to return to the court to correct things.

Zhao Kuangyin led a group of people to explore all the way in Ningzhou, looking for Miao Guangyi. One day I left Ningzhou Prefecture and climbed the mountain plateau to Beifengtou Village on the bank of the plateau. I saw a couple hoeing the ground, so I sent a guard to inquire about Miao Guangyi's whereabouts. Unexpectedly, the working couple had a quarrel over trivial matters and were having a quarrel. No one paid attention to the other, they just bent down and hoeed the ground. The guard greeted several times in succession, but the couple didn't even raise their heads, let alone reply. Seeing this situation, Zhao Kuangyin said angrily: "They are really a pair of stone men!" It is often said that the emperor is the real dragon and the emperor, which is a golden saying. Later, the couple turned into stone figures. They have been plowing and hoeing the ground for nearly a thousand years, standing in the field at the head of Beifengtou Village. (Of course this is folklore, but these stone statues actually exist. Unfortunately, criminals stole these stone statues more than ten years ago, and their whereabouts are still unknown.)

Zhao Kuangyin and his entourage asked questions to no avail. They rode forward on horseback and passed through a place called Yuanyuan Village to the south of Beifengtou Village. After passing a Yaoyan, the horses were innocently frightened. They raised their heads and neighed, and dug their hooves into the ground. After a lot of twists and turns, he finally stopped. There was no serious problem, but the golden bell used by Zhao Kuangyin to drive his horse fell to the bottom of Yaoxian ditch. A group of followers hurriedly went down to the ditch to search, but the strange thing was that the bottom of the ditch was only half an acre of land. After searching for a long time, they could not find the golden bell. Upon seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin said thoughtfully, "It's easy to lose something, but it's difficult to find something back." This further strengthened the determination to find Miao Guangyi. Later, this Yaoxian was called Jinling Bridge and it continues to this day.

Early victory over the vastness of the plateau, Zhao Kuangyin and his party searched for several days without success. One day I came to a place called Sanlitun without purpose (legend has it that it was a place where troops and horses were stationed in ancient times). The weather was fine and people were coming and going. Unexpectedly, in the huge crowd, Emperor Zhao Kuangyin and former minister Miao Guangyi met here. Zhao Kuangyin ignored the etiquette of monarchs and ministers and dismounted to greet him. Miao Guangyi was deeply moved, but he was determined to return to seclusion and refused to return to the court. In desperation, Zhao Kuangyin had to reward a large amount of money and items, named Miao Guangyi as Xiaoyao Hou, and named Sanlitun "Yucun". Since then, since the early Song Dynasty, the place name of Yucun, a village where monarchs and ministers met, has been passed down.

Miao Guangyi also settled down more than twenty miles to the south early and settled down to live an idyllic and secluded life. In order to commemorate Miao Guangyi's indifference to fame and wealth, later generations named the village where he lived "Fenghou Village", which is the village under the jurisdiction of Zhongcun Town today. "Ningzhou Chronicles" records that Miao Guangyi's tomb is located 40 miles south of Ningzhou, which is today's Zhongcun Town.

It is worth mentioning that there are several "Yucun" with the same pronunciation and different characters in Jinning County, including "Yucun", "Yucun", "Yucun", "Yucun", but only "Yucun" is an allusion to the name of the village, and it has not changed a word for thousands of years.