What was the name of Yanmeidong Township in the Ming and Qing Dynasties?

It has always belonged to Laiyuan County.

In the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Guangchang, and its scale was established. Guangchang guarding station for thousands of households was also established.

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Humans have been living and thriving in Laiyuan for a long time. According to the research of unearthed cultural relics, humans have been living in the Jumayuan area as early as the Mesolithic Age. Life had reached a certain scale by the Shang and Zhou dynasties. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it belonged to the Jin State. During the Warring States Period, it first returned to Zhao and then entered the territory of Yan. The Qin Dynasty belonged to Daijun, and the Western Han Dynasty established a county named Guangchang. During the Xinmang period, it was once changed to Guangping. In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, it belonged to the Zhongshan Kingdom of Jizhou and later to the Zhongshan County. Jin belongs to Daijun, Youzhou. The Northern Zhou Dynasty governed Wulong City. In the Sui Dynasty, it was renamed Feihu County, and in the Tang, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, it was also called Feihu County and Laiyuan County in the Yuan Dynasty. In the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Guangchang, and its scale was established, as well as the Guangchang Guard House for Thousands of Households. It was still Guangchang in the Qing Dynasty, and was changed to Laiyuan in the autumn of the 3rd year of the Republic of China.

There are several issues that need to be explained:

(1) The pottery fragments unearthed from the Juma River Mesolithic site are 9,000 years old, advancing the history of human ceramics by 2,000 years. . It fully illustrates the long history of Jumayuan civilization.

(2) During the Warring States Period, the "Three Kingdoms" (Futuyu area) had become an important mining and mining base. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Laiyuan was an important coin-making base, and it was a mining and metallurgical center in subsequent dynasties. .

(3) "Zhili Yizhou Chronicles" and other chronicles state that "Qin established counties", but this article adopts the theory of "Han established counties", which is more reliable.

(4) In history, two people used Laiyuan as their territory to be granted the title of marquis. One was Liu He of the Western Han Dynasty, who was granted the title of Marquis of Guangchang by Emperor Cheng; the other was Le Jin of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a general of Cao Cao, who was granted the title of Marquis of Guangchang by Emperor Cheng. He was granted the title of Marquis of Guangchang Ting.

(5) In the second year of Xiangxiang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (581), the county seat was moved to Wulongcheng (the current location).

(6) Ning once occupied Laiyuan and was promoted to the Zhenghu Army (Tongjun), but it was short-lived (maybe only a few dozen days). In the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, it was the county government, but it was also known as Feihu County and Laiyuan County.

(7) Most of the time in history, it belonged to Daijun. In the early Qing Dynasty, it belonged to Datong Prefecture in Shanxi. When the Qingxi Mausoleum was built in the 11th year of Yongzheng's reign, because the "Zhongzhilongshenzhengmai" originated from Chaajian Ridge in Laiyuan, Laiyuan was placed under Yizhou, Zhili Province, for the sake of Feng Shui protection.