Wugong Station and Yangling Station of Wugong Station
In the middle of the Longhai Railway from Xi'an to Baoji, there is a railway station - Wugong Station, which is about 180 miles away from the two places. Older locals all remember that from the 1950s to the 1980s, if you wanted to go to Xi'an or Baoji, you would definitely take a train from here, and train tickets cost one yuan and fifty cents. Due to the fact that there are many scientific research and teaching units in the location of this railway station and its geographical location is very special, it has always been an important station on the Longhai Railway.
In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College was built in Zhangjiagang Village on the North Plateau, 23 miles away from the train station. It was later renamed the National Northwest Agricultural College (National Northwest Agricultural College). During the Republic of China), Northwest Agricultural College, Northwest Agricultural University and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University.
In the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1936), the Longhai Railway was opened from Xi'an to Baoji, and this railway station - "Wugong Station" was born. It marked the linkage of the Longhai Railway from east to west. Got here.
In the history of more than 2,300 years, this place has always been the territory of Wugong County, Shaanxi Province, so to this day, the local elderly without exception will say that they are martial arts people.
In the 25th year of the Republic of China, the seat of Wugong County Government was located in Zhongtingchuan (today's Wugong Town), ten miles northeast of the train station in a straight line, so it was not only rightly called "Wugong Station", but also And it is beyond reproach.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wugong Station was expanded.
In 1949, Wugong County was divided into nine districts, including Yangling District.
In March 1956, Wugong County withdrew districts and merged townships. The county established three towns, Chengguan, Yangling and Puji. Among the seven townships merged in the county, Yangling Township was included. The "Yangling District", "Yangling Town" or "Yangling Township" mentioned here is where the Wugong Station is located.
In 1958, Xingping, Wugong and Fufeng counties were merged into the "large county" Xingping County. Wugong County was temporarily abolished, but Wugong Station still exists. With the advent of the people's commune movement, Yangling Township in Wugong County was renamed Hongqi People's Commune in October 1958, and in November it was renamed Yangling People's Commune in Wugong County.
In 1961, the "big counties" were disbanded and Wugong County was restored. In view of the inconvenience of transportation in the old county and its geographical location too northwest, the Wugong County Government moved to the Qujia and Lida areas on the Longhai Line, more than 20 miles east of Wugong Station (because it is close to Puji Street, a famous town in the southeast of Wugong , so the train station here is called Puji Town Station). Since then, there have been three martial arts in different senses on Guanzhong Road, Shaanxi: one is where the martial arts station is located (that is, Yangling Town, southwest of the old county). Locals who are over seventy years old still call this place "Zhan Shang"; The seat of the Wugong County government is what the locals call Puji Town; the other is the old county seat (i.e. Wugong Town, Wugong County) that has lasted for more than 2,000 years. The locals and the elderly still call it "County". Therefore, when outsiders come to Wugong on business trips, they often get confused: the Wugong station and the scientific research and teaching units of Wugong are not in Wugong, Wugong County is not Wugong, and Wugong is not Wugong County. Although this situation has continued for decades, the locals have never felt anything wrong or uncomfortable.
In 1979, with the approval of the State Council, Shaanxi Province established the Wugong County Yangling Special Zone in Wugong County, including all of Yangling Commune and Yangling Town in Wugong County. The Yangling Special Zone is under the deputy county level and is under the Wugong County Revolutionary Committee will directly lead to facilitate the management of universities and scientific research units here.
In June 1982, Shaanxi Province placed the Yangling Special Zone of Wugong County under the direct leadership of the Baoji Special Zone. In November 1982, the State Council approved the establishment of county-level Yangling District in Baoji City, which was directly under the leadership of Baoji City. In 1982, the Ministry of Railways renamed "Wugong Station" to "Yangling Town Station" and "Puji Town Station" (located 12 kilometers east of the original Wugong Station, where the new Wugong County seat is located) to "Wugong Station".
At that time, some senior gentlemen from Northwest Agricultural College and local celebrities in Wugong strongly protested against the change of "Wugong Station" to "Yangling Town Station". The protests mainly focused on the name Yangling Town.
Yangling is so named because the tomb of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, is located here. However, the tombs of emperors have their official names. The official name of Yang Jian's mausoleum is "Tailing". "Yang Ling" is just a common name for Yang Jian's tomb by local people. Moreover, the real "Yang Ling" is not on the territory of Wugong at all (it belongs to the original Wuquan Town of Fufeng County), and the name "Zhan Shang" is not as deeply rooted here. More importantly, in the minds of people at home and abroad, the names of units here are usually preceded by the word "Wugong", such as "Wugong Agricultural College", "Wugong Agricultural School", "Wugong Water School", "Wugong Water School" Wugong Water Science Institute", "Wugong Branch", "Wugong Soil and Water Conservation Institute", "Wugong Botany Institute" and Wugong Agricultural Research Center, etc. If the previous convention of calling the place this way (such as Yangling Township, Yangling Commune, Yangling Town, etc. named after liberation) is irreversible, if we want to rename this train station, we must have a name more powerful than "Martial Arts". In order to have a shocking and sunny name, otherwise I would rather keep the world-famous name of "Martial Arts Station" forever, and there is no need to import a very unlucky common name - "Yang Ling". However, these protests were ignored.
In November 1983, the county-level Yangling District was directly under the leadership of Xianyang City.
In July 1997, the State Council approved the establishment of a national-level agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone here. Originally, this was a perfect opportunity to correct the name, but what was even more inexplicable was that the demonstration zone was easily named "Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone." Where does the word "Yangling" come from? Although there are many explanations, such as saying that the word "Ling" means taking off, etc., they are all far-fetched and cannot be justified. There is no authoritative explanation so far. In short, the raw rice has been cooked. If anyone raises objections, no one will pay attention to it.
In view of the current situation that the demonstration area has been named "Yangling", it is logical that a new modern large railway station built here in 2006 should also be named "Yangling Railway Station". In 2014, Yangling Town Station was renamed Yangling Station. However, on the website of the Ministry of Railways, there is no station "Yangling" at all, and the train ticket still reads "Yangling". It seems that if the reputation is not correct, the words will not be correct, causing great trouble to the world. It is really a misfortune for the martial arts station.