Humanities and history of Lefeng Town

Lefeng Ancient Town was not called Lefeng Town in history. When the enclosure was built in 1954, it was named "Lefeng", which means a happy harvest. So, what was the name of the ancient town in history? In the history of Lefeng area, there is a legend of "Yulong Ancient Town". Although there is no exact document to be found, it is named after the mountain. This mountain is called Yulong Mountain. Lefeng is located in the Lakeside Plain. The terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. The highest point is Yulong Mountain in the south, with an altitude of 35 meters. The lowest point is Leeward Lake in the northwest, with an altitude of 14 meters. Before the Wei was built, here was the vast water of Poyang Lake. This location is also located in a hilly area in the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, there is a line of slightly undulating mountains that suddenly stops at the bank of Poyang Lake, like a huge fish dragon drinking the lake water here, hence the name. . According to legend, a kind of fine-grained sagger is called "fish-dragon sagger". The fine-grained painting is the shape of the fish and dragon swimming in Poyang Lake. This is the premise that the ancient Lefeng people pursued the practicality of pottery. , the maker injects his pursuit and yearning for beauty into the super shapes and patterns, giving it appreciable qualities. It can be seen that the terms "Yulong" and "Yulong Mountain" have been around a thousand years ago, and it has been circulated for a long time. There is a restaurant in Lefeng named "Yulong Mountain Hotel", all because of "Yulong Mountain" Named after. Obviously, Lefeng Town was called Yulong Ancient Town in history because it was located on Yulong Mountain. There is a street in Yulong Town called Rutang Street. How did Rutang Street get its name? It is said that in the Northern Song Dynasty, Yulong Mountain was also called "South Mountain". There was a mansion here, which was later named "Zengzi Academy" because Zeng Gong, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, once lectured here. Zeng Gong responded to the sincerity of his students. According to the "Poyang County Chronicle" written by Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, the original name of Baojia Mountain was "Rutang Mountain", which was the harbor where passing ships and wooden signs were parked. A safe haven, this densely populated area became Rutang Street. Of course, Yulong Ancient Town went through a development process. At first, the ancient town was not large and the streets were not wide. It is said that Rutang Street was widened and renovated. Benefiting from the Ming Dynasty, King Huai, in history, when Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought against Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang was defeated and retreated to Rutang Mountain to rest and recuperate in Mingshan Temple. He also raised food and grass, which enabled King Huai to finally defeat Chen Youliang. The street owes its contribution to the Ming Dynasty, so when he led the cavalry through Rutang Street to participate in the Wannian County Establishment Celebration, he solemnly promised to spend money to widen and reconstruct Rutang Street, and later actually sent several new stacks of "Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes". Since then, the official road from Rutang Street to Lianjia has been completely flattened and widened. This shows that the ancient town of Lefeng was born more than a thousand years ago, and its history has been continued. It is a veritable ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River for thousands of years. . 2. Why has Lefeng been able to form an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River since the Northern Song Dynasty? In ancient times when there were no trains and cars, most places where towns could be formed were places where waterway transportation was developed before liberation, that is, Confucianism. Tangshan, which is now the top of Baojia Mountain, has the vast Poyang Lake at its foot, surrounded by water on three sides. The Xinjiang River, Changjiang River and Le'an River meet not far away and flow into Poyang Lake. The waterway transportation extends in all directions and can transport ships from all directions. The location is superior. In the era when water transportation dominated transportation, this made it prosperous for thousands of years. Places with developed transportation, such as ancient ports, were the places where commodity trading was developed. In developed places, there are more people buying and selling, and there are more houses and shops, which makes them lively. Then they are surrounded by walls, and a market town is smaller than a city, so-called "market". , is to concentrate on buying and selling, and going to the market is to rush to buy and sell. For Yulong Mountain, which was in an era when waterways dominated transportation and was located at the intersection of multiple water systems, merchants gathered here and goods flowed smoothly. It can really be said that "business is booming." "Four seas, rich sources of wealth reach three rivers." According to historical records, a large number of markets have appeared around cities and rural transportation thoroughfares in the Song Dynasty, and towns of various sizes have gradually formed. It should be said that the ancient town of Yulongshan was the place where goods were sold during the Northern Song Dynasty. It was formed under the historical conditions of production and commodity exchange. It is said that in the Northern Song Dynasty, handicraft production in the Yulongshan area was very developed. According to historical records, our ancestors invented clay making when they began to use polished stone tools and used fire for a long time. It is made into a pottery container with a clay body that can hold liquids and is resistant to fire. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the pottery firing technology in Yulong Ancient Town was very advanced. It is said that there were 18 kilns at the top of Baojiashan, relying on the abundant high-quality heavy clay. The business of producing jars, bowls, bricks and tiles was very slow.

These bricks and tiles of jars and bowls are mainly sold to Poyang, Yugan and Leping counties. Among them, the multi-shaped fine-grained fish and dragon saggars with lids and lids are more widely sold. They are used for burning fires, making soup, and Vendors often use boats to transport vegetables and tea to Raozhou, Leping, Anren and other places along the Poyang Lake for sale. At that time, the industry that kept pace with the kiln industry was the acquisition and processing of the medicinal materials branded under people's names: Lefeng Primary School, the address of which is now Lefeng Primary School, the place at the head of Lefeng Reservoir where iron was forged and plows were made, and the gardening field was used to press grain and oil. A place where pigs are traded. Developed water transportation, prosperous handicraft production and processing, and smooth flow of commercial trade attracted more and more people to join, and gradually a market town with relatively dense residents was formed here. In the history of our country, it has become common practice to set up shops on the street during the Northern Song Dynasty. Shops can be set up in various areas of the city. Shops are set up everywhere on both sides of the streets and along the river. Because shops are set up everywhere in Yulong Ancient Town, it has formed a prosperous commercial complex. Street, this is Rutang Street. The street is bustling with people. According to the genealogy of the Li family in Tangtou, Lefeng, Hu Xiru, a descendant of Professor Hu, the great master who opened a lecture hall here in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem praising Rutang Street in Yulong Ancient Town, saying: "The Linlin Building competes with the garden. In the house, there is wind in the Chongmen Doushi Pavilion." This means that the rows of brick-and-tile houses with tiles as beautiful as fish scales, and the wind statues rising from the top floors of the tall houses, show the prosperity and prosperity of Ruchang Street in those days. It is a pity that this thousand-year-old ancient town in the mountains to the south was burned to rubble by a fire during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. According to locals, a large number of "yellow men" with yellow scarves on their arms came from the upper reaches of the Le'an River at that time. They made a fortune during the chaos. The target of the attack was a wealthy village with a small surname. After they entered the village, they killed everyone they saw, robbed money they saw, and burned everything they robbed. People on Rutang Street come from all over and have many surnames, so it is difficult to escape this disaster. You can see piles of rubble, glazed porcelain bowls, plates and pottery pot fragments, the remnants of Zengzi Academy, the relics of stone mills left in the houses on Rutang Street, and even the brush washers used by Zeng Gong. The pond is still at the foot of the mountain, which is enough to prove that the prosperous Yulong Ancient Town did exist in the history of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. 3. After the founding of New China, the history of Yulong Mountain opened a new page. In 1954, the People's Government built a dike on the delta lawn at the intersection of Le'an River and Xin River to form a natural basin, and built a nationally designated mechanical farm under the leadership of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture. In 1958, it was officially named Jiangxi Provincial Breed Breeding Farm. During the "Cultural Revolution", it became the Sixth Regiment of Jiangxi Production and Construction Corps. After the Agricultural Construction Division was withdrawn, it became a farm under the jurisdiction of Shangrao District. When Lefeng became a farm under regional leadership, it was catching up with the new historical period of reform and opening up. Driven by the tide of reform and opening up, many factories were built on the top of Baojia Mountain, on the former site of Yulong Ancient Town, giving rise to a series of enterprises led by Poyang Lake Brewery and Metal Container Factory. Poyang Lake Beer Province Excellent products have spread all over the country, and have been sold continuously for more than 20 years; metal containers and steel drums have been sold to more than a dozen provinces, and have also entered the European market. The development of industrial enterprises has brought about the prosperity of the market. , market prosperity has accelerated the development of urban construction. On the basis of the development of industrial production and commodity trade, the Lefeng Farm Party Committee led the people to open up a people's avenue from the latex factory to the agricultural machinery factory. After the avenue was built, houses and shops were built and shops were built on both sides of the road, and the storefronts began to be decorated. , and soon the street lights came on. So more than 150 years after Rutang Street in Yulong Ancient Town was burned down, a prosperous commercial street began to form on its old site in the 1980s, with the basic characteristics of a rural market town.