It is rumored that the original design of Cangnan Jinxiang in the Ming Dynasty was ten times larger than the one after construction. Does anyone know this history?
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Jinxiang was called Yingzhou in ancient times. Yingzhou is within the scope of "Hengyu Shiptun" where Zhou Yu trained naval forces during the Three Kingdoms period, and is a "Huipu area". "Xiaojin Township" emerged in the late Tang Dynasty. 250 years later, in the third year of Zhao Jianyan (1129), Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinzhou Township was established and belonged to Pingyang County. As for why it is called Jinzhou Township, some people say that when Jinzhou Township emerged from the sea, there were sunken shipwrecks with gold and silver jewelry attached; some people think that it is because there are Jinzi Mountain and Fuchuan Mountain to the south of Jinzhou Township, each with its own character. . From the rise and fall of Yongquan Temple, the stone horses in Huangni'ao, the funerary ornaments of Shi Wengzhong and the cliff carvings in Meiling, we can see that from the late Tang to the Song Dynasty, merchants gathered and gradually prospered.
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty ordered Xin Guogong Tang He to build a guard and build a city in Jinzhou Township, which was renamed Jinxiang Guard. The Jinxiang Guards of the Ming Dynasty commanded all Shuiluguan Village in Pingyang County, extending to Pumen and Zhuangshi Qianhusuo in the south; to Shayuan (now part of Ruian), Ningcun (now part of Ouhai), and Hai'an (now part of Yueqing) in the north. Thousand households.
Jinxiang Guards has eleven villages and fifteen forts.
The eleven villages are: Miaohou Village, Yumen Village, Bafu Village, Dayao Village, Yanting Village, Dawo Village, Xiaowo Village, Shitang Village, Shiping Village, Dayu Village Village, small fishing village.
The fifteen forts are: Bantang fort, Jianshan fort, Baiqi fort, Maji fort, Fenghuang fort, Heritou fort, Shangyang fort, Biwan fort, Donggang fort, Lingmen fort, Dongshan 堠, Mengwan 堠, Lantou 堠, Bayongshan 堠 and Dianshan 堠.
There are many piers under the boundary. For example, the existing ancient Yandun Mountain in Dayudun Mountain is located on the top of Dunshan Mountain in Xiao'ao Village, Dayu Town. It is about 250 meters above sea level. It was an anti-Japanese alarm facility in the Ming Dynasty. It covers an area of 100 square meters and is about 7 meters high. It has a great view of the sea and the sky. For spectacular. It is basically intact and is a precious object of the anti-Japanese struggle in the Ming Dynasty. In 1988, it was listed as the second batch of cultural relics protection units in Cangnan County.
The Jinxiang Guard City Wall has a circumference of 9 miles and 30 steps, totaling more than 1,420 feet, a wall height of 1.9 feet, a toe thickness of 2 feet, 1,650 battlements, and 43 nests. There are four city gates: Yingxu Gate in the east, Jinghai Gate in the south, Laishang Gate in the west, and Wangjing Gate in the north. Each has a tower. There were originally four water gates, but now two remain. The city structure is made of irregular stone barriers, with loess and gravel packed inside. Due to historical changes, only part of the city base, the north and west city gates, the south and west water gates, and Kuixing Pavilion above the west water gate remain. There is a complete moat of 30 to 50 meters wide outside the city wall. The small river in the city is connected to the moat through the water gate. There is a suspension bridge over the moat.
In front of the inner guard hall of the Acropolis, there are Guangji Dacang and Xiaocang, totaling more than 20 rooms, which are used to collect and disburse the guard's salary. The Wei Hall is located on Wei Mountain (i.e. Lion Mountain) and has a lookout, which overlooks Haiphong in the distance and is close to the warehouse. There is also a land temple in front of and behind the warehouse, which means that the father-in-law of the land will protect the warehouse and keep it safe and sound.
(2) Layout of the Bagua Universe
The Acropolis designed by Xin Guogong Tanghe has two major characteristics: first, it is military and defensive; second, it is based on Liu Ji’s design of the Forbidden City in Nanjing. The layout of the Bagua universe."
There are "one hexagram and six lines" in the Bagua, which are arranged in parallel from north to south and east to west. The eighth lane in Jinxiang is the first of the six lines, and the third lane is the upper line of the six. Lines are continuous or broken. The connected ones are Yang Yao, and the broken ones are Yin Yao. The buildings in the lanes are continuous and interrupted, with alternating yin and yang, corresponding to the yin and yang lines in the hexagram. The six lines form one of the sixty-four hexagrams. According to the imagery and analogy techniques in the "Book of Changes", we can understand Liu Ji's purpose of setting up a defense. For example, the hexagram "Jin" talks about war preparation and tactics. However, due to the passage of time and vicissitudes of life, it is now impossible to identify which lane belongs to Yin or Yang, so it is impossible to determine which hexagram the Liuyao Lane originally belonged to. However, it is certain that the Acropolis is the layout of the Bagua universe.
According to Liuyao Lane: Jinxiang should only have six lanes, why are there eight? In fact, they are Liuyao Lane, Jia Ma Lane and Niu Lane (also known as Molin Lane). These two alleys date from after the city was built. The Niu Alley was where the garrison soldiers slaughtered cattle and sheep after entering the defense; the Horse Alley was where the soldiers forged their troops and horses, or where the stables were located. Niu Xiang is parallel to Hengjie Street, from Lihe Street to Tiandeng Xiang; Ma Xiang is located at the west end of Wenchang Pavilion. As for the first and second lanes of South Gate, as they are now known among the people, they happened after the Republic of China. There were no such lanes before. The naming of the four city gates also has traces of King Wen's Houtian Bagua: Ruzhen means east and spring, the five elements belong to wood, and the sun rises in the southeast corner, so the east city gate is Yingxu Gate. Dui means west, which means joy and autumn. The five elements belong to gold, so the west city gate is the Laishang Gate.
As for the North Wangjing Gate and the South Jinghai Gate, it is clear that the subjective consciousness of later generations has penetrated into them.
In addition to the four gates of the Acropolis, there are four water gates in the southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest respectively, forming a pattern of eight gates and nine palaces of Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Death, Jing and Kai Bagua. For example, the southwest is the Gate of Death, which is where the Ganxi Cemetery is now and is the site of an ancient battlefield. This is the best place to kill the enemy. If the Japanese invaders invaded Jinxiang from the direction of Dayu or Xiaoyu, the defenders would attack from the south gate and they would be forced to the Ganxi battlefield. This place is surrounded by mountains on both sides and there is no other way. The enemy will surely be put to death. If the Japanese pirates escape to the west, they will be lured into the hinterland and become turtles in the urn.
To the northeast and northwest of the Acropolis, the Eight Diagrams belong to Shengmen and Kaimen, and to the north is Ximen. Because from outside the north gate of Jinxiang to Bafan and Maicheng, there was a vast plain, which was a good place for our soldiers to recuperate. Now it is a basic farmland protection zone, a fertile soil for the people of Jiangnan to survive, and generations of descendants have lived and multiplied on this homeland.
From this point of view, it can be said that the choice of a geographical location that conforms to the pattern of eight gates and nine palaces when setting up a guard in Jinxiang was extremely ingenious.
Zhu Hongwu’s policy for establishing the country after the founding of the People’s Republic of China was Liu Ji’s nine-character strategic national policy of “building walls high, accumulating grain widely, and stabilizing hegemony”. It was also Zhu Yuanzhang’s order for Tang He to “border the sea and set up defenses” to build defenses along the country’s coasts. The historical background of the 59th Guards. The layout of the Forbidden City in Nanjing is exactly the same as that of Jinxiang, which is the layout of Liu Ji's Bagua City. Nanjing has "Xuanwu Gate" and "Xuanwu Lake", which are named after the "Qinglong, Suzaku, White Tiger, Xuanwu" in the Eight Diagrams.
Therefore, Jinxiang's "Jutian River" has been transformed into a pond. The meaning of fire protection also follows the purpose of Jinxiang being the Bagua City.
It is not so much that the Putcheng layout of Jinxiang is out of the needs of Yin and Yang Feng Shui, but rather it is out of the necessity of Liu Ji's military defense. Liuyao Lane, strictly speaking, was the Sixth Platoon Military Camp at that time and was not designed for residents. The yin and yang lines, with intermittent intervals, are the internal passages of the military camp to facilitate mutual communication. The width of the lane is only two or three meters, and two horses cannot run parallel. This layout is most suitable for street fighting and can be attacked and defended easily. Once the city gate is lost, you can also use your familiarity with the terrain to fight with the enemy and make the enemy enter the enchantment formation. The center of Jinxiangwei is Dacang Bridge and Xiaocang Bridge. It is where the troops store military supplies. Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms all stored grain and grass under heavy guard. The grain harvesting methods of Okangqiao and Xiaocangqiao were based on this military strategy. Due to Liu Ji's military strategy, in order to transport grain and store grain before the city was founded, the South Canal was extended from the head of the river to Dacang Bridge in Jinxiang as early as 1384. The bridge stone of Dacang Bridge is now (the seventeenth year of Hongwu) (Building), Kuixing Pavilion in Xishuimen, and other ruins can serve as historical witnesses.
The Li River was not designed for sewage discharge, but for the purpose of transporting grain. At that time, the suspension bridges at the four city gates could not be hoisted during military emergencies. Grain and grass were mainly transported through the water gate to the hinterland of the Acropolis for accumulation.
Qishuijing is also for military needs. It is not only to provide daily drinking water, but also to prevent the soldiers and civilians from running out of water in the emergency situation of siege. Therefore, the wells are dug in the sun of Shishan Mountain to facilitate the drinking of the soldiers guarding the city wall. Many considerations stem from military needs. Tang He established a guard in Jinxiang, which shows Liu Ji's intentions.
Additional answer: The origin of Jinxiang During the Jin and Tang Dynasties (317-907), many people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River fled southward to avoid war and famine. Meifeng and Yingzhou, which are located in the southeast corner of the sea, have a mild climate and attract some people from the north. He settled down and became a fisherman and woodcutter. They either live in mountains or on islands. They are the ancestors who developed Jinxiang.
The history of Jinxiang is customarily started from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. This is because "Little Jinxiang" emerged in the late Tang Dynasty, and traces of Jinxiang can be traced. Moreover, since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there are documents to commemorate: not only ancient buildings, but also ancient talents, as well as characters and styles. Already occupying a place in China. Jinxiang in history is recorded in history based on the achievements of people's activities.
The key to the historical development of Jinxiang is that it took Hongwu twenty years to build a sanitary building. The officers and soldiers of the military guards were all hereditary. They were stationed as guards in Jinxiang. They brought their families to move and settle down. They obtained the "Wei nationality" with the official "Wei genealogy" document, and were later called "Wei clan". In the early Ming Dynasty, the Wei clan had sixteen surnames, nineteen lines, four hundred and twelve households, and two thousand people. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, descendants had multiplied and the number of residents in the Acropolis was about a thousand households. After the Chencang Uprising and Shunzhi relocation, a large number of Wei people migrated or died in disasters. After Zhanjie was restored, non-Wei people moved into the city and lived together, and the original Wei people became a minority.
The Wei people and non-Wei people live together on this land, developing planting and farming; developing fisheries and catching water from the East China Sea; developing culture and nurturing talented people in the countryside... Bits and pieces of the history of Jinxiang You Yes, they are all the creations of Jinxiang people.
Jinxiang people originated from the Yellow River Basin and are descendants of Yan and Huang. The creations of Jinxiang people not only contribute to Jinxiang.
The "Lingfeng Lingyun Temple" of the Tang Dynasty, the "Meifeng Yongquan Temple" of Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Yuanyou Bridge" of Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiaokou and Dayu north-south transportation ports between the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the Southern Song Dynasty The "gold rush" in Jinzhou Township, "Wuyu Doumen" and "Yinjundai" in the Xiaosong Dynasty of the Southern Song Dynasty, the number one scholar among the brothers under Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, the poet Chen Gao and the "Three Heroes of Yingzhou" in the Renzong period of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty "Xuecang Taoist Chen Wenkou, the architect Zhang Dianyuan in the Chengzu era of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Yin, a Yuanrong in the Wanyou era of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Cang who raised the flag of righteousness in the early Qing Dynasty, Cai Qianma who resisted the ban on the sea and locked the country... The history of civilization created by Jinxiang people, It is a contribution to the motherland that gave birth to Jinxiang people.
Although the ancient city of Jinxiang, which has been recorded in history as an anti-Japanese town, has many unforgettable achievements, it is mainly due to the merits of the anti-Japanese soldiers and people. During the long anti-Japanese journey, Jinxiang people continued to produce and fight, making this sacred territory stand on the coast of the East China Sea, leaving behind a glorious and glorious history, and, tortuously and arduously, continued to move forward. The history of Jinxiang has been developed in the past, bringing it into a new today and leaving for a brilliant tomorrow. The people of Jinxiang are worthy of the great Chinese nation.