Hujiang Island

Hujiang Island

It is located in the south of Lianjiang county, Fujian Province, China. It is 3.5 km from the nearest point of the mainland. It covers an area of about 0.57 square kilometers. It looks like a pot, so it's named. It's also said that after the earthquake in the late Ming Dynasty, Chenli Village (lizhujiao) was named after the fuhujiang river. The basement is composed of igneous rocks. It is 1.32 km long, 0.43 km wide and covers an area of about 0.57 square km. The highest point is 38.3 meters above sea level. The coastline is 3.84 km long. Population 7301. There are 1.2km breakwaters in the north, 4 wharves along the west coast, and liner ships connecting to the Houlu Island, CHUANSHI Island, Guantou in Lianjiang county and Fuzhou City. The inscription "chaoming empty valley" is inscribed on the Mo rock in Ruzhu, Ming Dynasty. The average annual temperature of the island is 18.3 ℃, the annual precipitation is 1064 mm, the wind force is usually 3-4, and there are typhoons from July to October. There are navigation lights on the island, and passenger ships pass through CHUANSHI, Houlu, Guantou and Fuzhou.

Introduction to the island

Location

Hujiang island is dominated by fishing and developed in sea transportation. In 1990, an administrative village with a population of more than 7300 was set up under the jurisdiction of Guantou Town, Lianjiang county. On the way to Minjiang River, there is a beautiful and pleasant Hujiang island. After the reform and opening up, the villagers have developed into a maritime village. The island is located at the mouth of Minjiang River, with Wuhu reef in the north and meihua channel in the south. The sea tide passes Shuanggui reef in the west, enters Minjiang River, and reaches Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province from Mawei. It passes Wuhu reef in the north, Meihua reef in the south, and enters the sea. It has been a must for military strategists since ancient times.

history

During Zheng He's voyages to the West in the Ming Dynasty, he led a boat division to worship the God of the sea, pray for Mazu, train the Navy, replenish supplies, and then set sail for the ocean. In 1850, Lin Zexu returned to Fuzhou and visited wuhumen several times. In order to reorganize the defense of minjiangkou, he went to the island to inspect military facilities, built the fort of minjiangkou, and left a famous five character poem "wuhumen viewing the sea", The poem said: "the natural danger sets up the tiger gate, the cannon faces each other. Although Haimen is high, it will be a general. If the lips die and the teeth are cold, who is the guarantee of Min'an

Meihu Shize

Against foreign enemies

In the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, in the 38th year of Jiajing period, Japanese pirates committed crimes against Fujian. Fishermen from the two townships cooperated with Qi Jiguang's subordinates to resist the Japanese pirates at the mouth of Minjiang River, protected the sea with blood and life, and defended the border, forming a love of life and death.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the two townships set up Mazu's fixed fishing ground, the plum blossom was located as "Fuwo", the Hujiang river was located as "Shanlong". During the fishing season, the two townships held sacrifices to the gods, which was a sudden encounter with foreign invasion at night. The two sides used "Yijiu" as a sentinel to fight off foreign invaders. From then on, the fishermen of the two places called each other "Yijiu".

In the middle of the last century, after Fuzhou was occupied by the Japanese, the enemy ships crossed the river and the food supply of Hujiang island was cut off. At this time, the villagers of Meihua risked their lives to send food across the river to solve the crisis of Hujiang. On the eve of liberation, some unruly people harassed Meihua. The villagers of Hujiang learned that they called hundreds of strong townships to sail boats to rescue Meihua.

Unity and fraternity

After the liberation, the new generation of Meihu people cherished the traditional friendship from generation to generation, and carried forward it continuously. When fishing boats in the two villages worked at sea, they took care of each other and shared resources. When they were in trouble, they were as close as a family. There was never any dispute on sea operation, Even in the process of production, if two ships collide and two nets are twisted, no matter how big the loss is, no matter how big it is, no matter how much it is, no one is willing to ask for compensation. He thinks it is natural for his own side to bear it. Because no one wants to be the eternal sinner who destroys the relationship between uncle and uncle. Especially in the past 20 years, friendship has been heating up. Once, when Hujiang fishing boat was working on the sea, the machine broke down and could not return. After receiving the call signal, Meihua fishery information station rushed to the scene to rescue the fishing boat in distress and the fishermen on board. When a typhoon hit Changle City the year before last, Meihua's iron hull boat was thrown ashore by the strong wind before it could return to the harbor. The hull was seriously damaged. When Hujiang villagers learned about it, they immediately took towing gear and dragged the stranded ship back to the shipyard for repair despite the strong wind and waves in the middle of the night.

Folk customs

Today, every year when there are major festivals, the old people's associations of the two places organize mutual visits. The largest one is the Spring Festival in 2002. More than 1100 of the more than 4000 villagers in Hujiang village go to Meihua for the Spring Festival. Meihua people take out the best houses, beds and food to entertain friends from afar, and hold a huge "pick up" activity on the street. More than a thousand men and women, as the niece of Yijiu Yizhen, spent three days eating, lodging and playing in Meihua town. Meihua Yijiu entertained Hujiang Yijiu with the highest etiquette. More than 16000 young and old people in Meidong, Meixi, Meinan, meibei, Meicheng and Meixing villages of Meihua town opened their doors to welcome the guests. More than 300 tables of banquet and more than 3000 people's party were no longer to satisfy the tempting appetite, It is the interpretation of hundreds of years of laughter and songs; the narration of historical poems of generations of sea goers; the taste of fine wine and delicacies produced by the vicissitudes of time; the expression of hope and vision for a better cause in the future; the spirit and light of the national tradition shining in the glass; this is the permanent charm of meihujieyuan culture!

Maritime prohibition in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Maritime prohibition in Ming Dynasty

It is a witness to the rise of shipping 600 years ago. It also witnessed the sad history of China from navigation to sea ban. Recently, a "sea ban stele" was unearthed on the island during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. The stele was erected in the 34th year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. The text should have 48 words, some of which are illegible. The words in the stele record the scope and requirements of sea ban on the island, "Shangxiagantang (today's Mazu archipelago) and other islands are strictly forbidden to trade with nets. ⅩⅩⅩ except for piles, no traitors are allowed to trust their tracks. ⅩⅩ the Navy patrols the newspapers, and those who play against the rules will visit them. The fishermen will always show their vigilance by strangling stones." In order to strengthen the rule of Fujian and further implement the Ming Dynasty's "sea ban" policy, the court of the early Qing Dynasty adopted a series of strict measures, such as "enclosure, sea ban and relocation".

Qing Dynasty's migration

Especially in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, in order to prevent Zheng Chenggong and other anti Qing forces, they prohibited the people of Fujian and Guangdong from crossing the sea to Taiwan, and blocked more than 1100 islands along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, which was unprecedented in Chinese history. Although the sea ban is strict, it still can't stop the smuggling activities among the people. So the Qing government carried out the policy of "moving the boundary" from 1661 to 1684. Along the coast of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, with a total length of 1820 Li, it is stipulated that all people within 30 li of the sea will move in. In the area of 6436 hectares (including all the coastal islands), villages and houses were abandoned, castles and fortresses were demolished, and even ships were burned to ashes. In this way, the original vitality of the thousands of miles of seaside, turned into a desolate and uninhabited place. The relocation not only destroyed shipping and overseas trade, but also destroyed the coastal people's livelihood in fishing, salt industry, farmland and water conservancy. It also destroyed many coastal defense stations set up in the Ming Dynasty, and destroyed the prosperous fishing, business, culture and coastal defense in this area. In this way, after Zhu Di, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, Renzong Zhu gaochi and Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji carried out the policies of banning the sea and "destroying the treasure ship and abusing the government", restricting private business and forbidding private business from going out of the harbor.

lessons of history

After Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean, China went from sailing to banning the sea, which made China fall from its glorious peak. This is a history that the Chinese people cannot forget. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping mentioned the history of Zheng He's navigation. Deng Xiaoping said, "it's impossible for any country to be closed to the outside world if it wants to develop now. We have suffered from this, and so have our ancestors. I'm afraid Zheng He's voyages to the West were still open during the Ming Dynasty. After the death of emperor Chengzu, the Ming Dynasty gradually declined and China was invaded. From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the Opium War, after more than 300 years of seclusion They have made China poor, backward and ignorant. We can't do without opening up. " As a leader of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping intended to warn the Chinese people through the story of Zheng He that China must open up, and opening up is an inevitable choice. From looking for historical symbols, Zheng He's seven voyages to the West and the subsequent hundreds of years of China's decline, the history of being invaded is undoubtedly the best textbook.

Coastal history

In the long historical development process of our country, our country has been in the forefront of the world in the development and utilization of the ocean. In the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu's eastward voyage to Japan was widely spread; in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, China opened a sea route from the southeast coast to the west of India and Sri Lanka, forming a sea passage through Europe, Africa and Asia; in the Three Kingdoms period, the Soochow sent sailors to Taiwan and Hainan successively, and began to have direct contacts with the Roman Empire; in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, China's navigation entered a stage of great development Sui Yang emperor sent envoys to visit southeast coastal countries for many times; Tang Dynasty opened up the famous "maritime Silk Road"; in Zhenguan years, there were records of building 400 sea ships; in Song Dynasty, the invention of compass made epoch-making contributions to the world navigation technology; Southern Song Dynasty established the most powerful navy at that time, with more than 6000 warships and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

The peak period of shipbuilding and navigation in ancient China should belong to the era of Zheng He's voyages to the West. The size of its fleet and the size of its vessels far exceeds that of other maritime forces in the world. According to historical records, when Zhu Di came to power, he changed the practice of anneiping by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty

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